Sr Manager- Engineering

Gen is a global company powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, Reputation Defender, and CCleaner. Our combined heritage is rooted in providing safety for the first digital generations. We bring leading technology solutions in cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection to more than 500 million users in 150 countries so they can live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently today and for generations to come. We're always looking for smart, fearless, and dedicated people. Together, we have collective passion and a big vision to power Digital Freedom by protecting consumers and giving them control of their digital lives. When you’re a part of Gen, you are provided access to a range of resources and support to ensure you can do your best work and live your best life. This includes flexible working options with generous time off and competitive benefits & compensation packages. Diversity is foundational to how we do business because we know the greatest ideas and results come from our unique perspectives and differences. We strive to create a safe, inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. Team members are valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are in a meaningful and exciting atmosphere. Gen is an equal employment opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs. 

If this sounds like you—Gen has a dynamic, supportive culture with core values that celebrate diversity, promote teamwork, and encourage every team member to contribute and grow—

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About the role

This is a full-time role for a Senior Delivery Manager located in Chennai. This role requires managing multiple scrum teams ( up to 4) and supervises both the product backlog that team consumes and ensuring team is executing objectives as committed. In addition to regular people responsibilities – role also requires cross team collaboration and be an escalation delivery contact leader for resolving technical challenges, resolve conflicts and encourage to provide enhanced features partnering with product for changing business needs and revenue opportunities. Takes care of delivery ownership of committed items and helps team achieve goals with rightly setting the bar high. This role is an on-site position in Chennai.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Techno functional & engineering delivery lead for minimal 2 to 3 modules of a core product

• Responsible for managing minimal 3 to 4 scrum teams consisting of roles including principal engineers, Sr. PO, Sr. QA & team under them

• People responsibilities like setting goals based on BU strategic roadmap, performing appraisals and enabling winning culture

• Proactive ownership to provide timely resolution to execution and tactical challenges

• Improve quality / certification abilities of product release

• Initiatives that lead to automate build & release complexities

• Guide and coach team on design & implementation challenges by collaborating with right set of people and help make crucial execution decision

• Assist team in setting high performance standards for maximized results

• Facilitate escalation and resolve conflicts as required

• Learn & adapt to obtain security and related core feature domain expertise

• Participate in agile process improvement activities

• Provide weekly accomplishment stats to leadership

• Be a strong influencer and a change maker

• Lead and own new process improvements

• Good team player & motivator, facilitating cross functional and cultural team interaction

• Flexible to attend calls at overlap between CET and PST time on needed basis

What You’ll Need to be Successful in this Role

• BE / M Sc / MCA / Any Computer Related Degree

• Total 15 + years of IT experience managing teams with diversified skillset and proven track of delivering product solution using multiple skillsets

• Must have delivery and engineering experience comprising product development, testing, automation and support involving technologies preferably using few among - C++, C#, JS, angular, Java, Python & ios apps using swift / objective c

• 5+ years of end to end, product development with accountability in satisfying project triple constraint demands (cost, schedule and quality)

• Strong in evangelizing iterative development using agile/scrum practices

• Expertise in maximizing opportunity towards build and deployment framework

• Knowledgeable in OOPS, design patterns, data structures and best architectural practices

• Familiar with project management / bug triaging tools like JIRA

• Familiar with source control systems like GIT and build framework using Teamcity / MSBuild / Jenkin

• Strong in debugging & review tools

• Certified PMP, ACP, CSM roles will be an added advantage

• Additional technical certification will be a plus

• Comes with a past experience of leading teams (Managers and below) and strong performance management and people engagement experience.

• Has understanding and experience of working on functional or technology competencies of individuals and working on learning maps and competency framework      

Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all employees. All employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs, without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions), genetic information, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Gen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based on such protected characteristics and seeks to recruit the most talented candidates from diverse cultures and backgrounds. 

We also consider employment-qualified individuals with arrest and conviction records. In addition, we will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Learn more about pay transparency. 

Gen complies with all anti-discrimination laws. 

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.