Manager Software Engineering

Job Description

About Team:  

RX Global aims to create unforgettable experiences for attendees and exhibitors through organizing events. Innovation, creativity, and collaboration drive the company to offer exceptional services to clients.  

About the role:  

The Software Engineering Manager is an engineering leader and people manager accountable for outcomes across multiple teams and/or a significant technical excellence capabilities. They can sets direction, establishes standards, and creates the environment for multiple teams to succeed through strong leadership, governance, and operational discipline. The role owns delivery, quality, reliability, security, compliance, and the engineering operating model for their area—leading through other leaders to build a high-performing, inclusive, and scalable engineering organisation.

Through their direct team, ensures effective architectural and structural design oversight to deliver reliable products and determining the technical feasibility of future development projects.

Accountable for ensuring strong management to oversee and continuously improve the quality, service, and efficiency of staff, products and processes. Follows and enforces necessary compliance.

Requirements:

• Typically possesses 5 to 10 years of relevant software engineering management work experience, leading organisations 15-50 people with up to 5-8 direct reports
• Experience leading multiple teams onshore/nearshore/offshore in distributed or co-sourced staffing models.
• Experience of developing and evolving 2-3 large scale platforms and global businesses
• Strong organizational and project planning, time management and change management skills across functional groups 
• Experienced in evaluating and participated in competitive analysis of 3rd party software and services
• A polygot with a wide range of experience of different technologies and systems
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills

• Advanced knowledge of agile software development methodologies (Scrum, XP, Pair programming, 3-Amigos, DevSecOps )
• Good knowledge of Architecture frameworks and principals
• Strong knowledge of SOA, DDD and software-as-a-service
• Broad knowledge of Continuous Testing, TDD / BDD, Integration Tests, Performance & Scalability Testing, Instrumentation (Logging, monitoring, alerting, metrics, health checks) 
• Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, Security & Privacy By Design, SAST/DAST, Encryption, TLS, Secure Coding, Threat Modelling 
• Strong knowledge of cloud based hosting, IaC, Immutable Infrastructure and container solutions, and cost/efficiency optimisations 
• Strong knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Source Control, Build Orchestration, Artefact Repositories, Static Analysis, green-blue deployments and canary releases. 
• Strong organisational, planning, and problem-solving skills
• Good knowledge of Big Data solutions, Analytics and Data Governance and Quality

Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Culture

• Lead, mentor and develop Engineering Leads and Senior Engineers; build leadership capability and succession plans.
• Own recruitment strategy, onboarding, performance management, and workforce planning across teams.
• Make recommendations for hiring decisions. Evaluate staff providing performance feedback, coaching and instrumental in motivating staff. 
• Build and sustain a psychologically safe, inclusive, high-performance culture across multiple teams.
• Act as an escalation point for people, delivery, and technical issues.
• Act as a liaison between the engineering team and other teams (and management) to promote organisation-wide collaboration.​
• Encourage a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the engineering team.
• Ensure that the team follows high standards of quality on their work.
• Help shape an engineering strategy aligned to product and business objectives.
• Translate business goals into clear engineering investment themes.
• Design and evolve team topology to optimise flow and reduce dependencies.  Team structure, staffing, and leadership appointments within the area.
• Establish governance mechanisms that scale across teams.
• Own budget inputs and cost-to-serve trade-offs for the engineering area.

Product & Delivery Excellence

• Own delivery outcomes across multiple teams including predictability, throughput, and quality.
• Partner with Product and Architecture, monitors organisational and industry updates, to shape roadmaps and priorities.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and senior stakeholder reporting.
• Improve developer experience through tooling, process, and platform improvements.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and operational controls.
• Maintain a risk register covering delivery, technical, operational, and people risks.
• Own engineering metrics and dashboards and use them to drive corrective action.
• Engineering investment trade-offs and prioritisation decisions.

Technical Excellence & Innovation

• Set and enforce technical standards across architecture, security, quality, and DevOps.
• Ensure long-term health of the technical estate including modernization and debt management.
• Provide architectural oversight and validate technical feasibility of future initiatives.
• Audits best practices, standards, robustness, technical checks/validations and metrics within a team or functional area and works to improve
• Works on components/solutions often affecting multiple systems; designing larger scale solutions across business domains.
• Innovates in context of delivering significant business value.
• Advanced problem solving and leading/co-ordinating people across teams as necessary to troubleshoot/diagnose complex project issues and get beyond symptoms to identifying root cause

Operational Excellence

• Ensure operational readiness, reliability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Drive continuous improvement of engineering and operational processes.
• Collaborate with Operations team to actively manage cloud, platform, and vendor costs.
• Manage vendor and partner performance against agreed outcomes.

Why join us? 

You’ll play a key role in shaping robust, scalable platforms while influencing how technology is built at scale, engineering standards and delivery outcomes—working on systems that have measurable impact at scale. If you’re excited by leading product teams, shaping technology, and delivering software that matters, we’d love to hear from you. 

Work in a way that works for you  

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.  

 Working for you  

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:  

 Comprehensive Health Insurance: Covers you, your immediate family, and parents.  
Enhanced Health Insurance Options: Competitive rates negotiated by the company.  
Group Life Insurance: Ensuring financial security for your loved ones.  
Group Accident Insurance: Extra protection for accidental death and permanent disablement.  
Flexible Working Arrangement: Achieve a harmonious work-life balance.  
Employee Assistance Program: Access support for personal and work-related challenges.  
Medical Screening: Your well-being is a top priority.  
Modern Family Benefits: Maternity, paternity, and adoption support.  
Long-Service Awards: Recognizing dedication and commitment.  
New Baby Gift: Celebrating the joy of parenthood.  
Subsidized Meals in Chennai: Enjoy delicious meals at discounted rates.  
Various Paid Time Off: Take time off with Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, and Gazette Public Holidays.  

About Business:  

RX is a global leader in events and exhibitions, leveraging industry expertise, data, and technology to build businesses for individuals, communities, and organizations. With a presence in 25 countries across 41 industry sectors, RX hosts approximately 350 events annually. RX is committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our people. RX empowers businesses to thrive by leveraging data-driven insights and digital solutions. RX is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, visit www.rxglobal.com.

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