Engineering Manager (Project Manager)-Trivandrum

Title: Engineering Manager (Project Manager) Location: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Job Type: Full Time / Employment Work Mode: Work from Office Joining: Immediate Experience: 10+ years in IT delivery / Engineering Management with hands-on Agile delivery leadership Department: Software Development Required Skills: - Delivery & Agile Management: Own end-to-end software delivery across all Scrum pods, including sprint/iteration planning, execution, progress tracking, milestone management, delivery commitments, and Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives; strong experience managing Agile delivery at multi-team scale. - Resource & Cross-Pod Management: Allocate resources and capacity across multiple pods based on subsystem/module ownership and changing priorities; manage 20+ member cross-functional delivery organizations, coordinate dependencies, remove blockers, and ensure teams have the required priorities, resources, and support. - People & Team Leadership: Lead team performance and growth through mentorship, performance feedback, capability development, and continuous improvement; provide day-to-day direction to the QA Lead, DevOps Lead, and delivery pods, ensuring effective coordination across development, QA, CI/CD, infrastructure, deployment, and release activities. - Risk, Quality & Delivery Governance: Own day-to-day delivery risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies; resolve at pod level or escalate to the Engineering Leader with clear options; drive corrective actions and ensure secure, high-quality, production-ready delivery within agreed scope, schedule, resources, and quality objectives; provide delivery status reports, velocity metrics, and milestone tracking. - Tools, Qualifications & Additional Expertise: Advanced Jira administration and reporting and strong Confluence documentation practices; Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline; PMP, PRINCE2, or CSM preferred. Experience with CSM/SAFe, government/public-sector project delivery, and dedicated data-migration workstreams is an added advantage. Must also own the Data Migration pod's delivery cadence alongside three application-development pods.