Group Manager (Software Engineering Manager)

Airbus started its digital journey. The objective being to transform the company and to prepare it for the future. This transformation includes new global governance, new ways of working and the implementation of digital business services and platforms. Skywise is an Airbus digital services company operated under Airbus India roof in Bangalore. Skywise is a leading flight operations specialist, operating as a wholly owned Airbus subsidiary. We provide comprehensive ground and onboard solutions designed to increase productivity for aircraft operators worldwide. We combine deep industry knowledge with an agile development culture to drive innovation in operational efficiency and sustainable aviation. As a Software Engineering Manager (Backend chapter Leader) you will be responsible for driving technical direction and engineering excellence of our backend discipline within the dynamic Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment. Operating in a matrix structure, you will set the standard for code quality by defining robust design patterns and championing Non Functional requirements to ensure our software remains sustainable and scalable. You will balance the technical leadership with people management, empowering your chapter members distributed across various Scrum teams to deliver high-performing, secure, reliable and robust solutions. This job offer is for a position based at the Airbus office in Bangalore.

Responsibilities

Technical Strategy: Define and maintain the backend technical vision ensuring alignment with broader architectural roadmap; Standards and best practices: Lead the global “Community of practice” for backend engineering. Collaborate with the chapter leaders across the globe to have standard guidelines to deliver robust, reliable, scalable, secure customer products. Enforce coding and testing standards, security best practices, code review guidelines and testing protocols to ensure craftsmanship and consistency across all squads; Architecture: Actively participate in architectural reviews. Balance feature delivery with long term technical health, advocating for the strategic reduction of technical debt and modernization of legacy systems; DevOps Mindset: Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab), Infrastructure as a code, Docker; Operational Excellence: Champion Grow the Business and Run the Business culture. Drive initiatives to improve high availability, observability (logging, tracing, metrics) and reliability of backend services; Align engineering initiatives and objectives directly with the overall company strategic goals; Ensure high standards are met, resulting in high-quality software deliverables that meet both functional and non-functional requirements; Develop Competency: Direct the necessary development team training to ensure the team possesses the required skills for future projects; Growth and mentorship: Drive performance review and career development conversations. Mentor engineers from junior to senior levels, helping them navigate technical and organizational challenges; Resource allocation: Collaborate with the ART Trio (PM/SA/RTE) to ensure the right engineers are deployed to the right squads based on the skills, business needs, individual growth goals; Psychological Safety: Foster an inclusive environment where engineers feel free to take calculated risks, speak up, constructively challenge each other to develop quality product and innovate

Requirements

Bachelor/Master Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or any relevant field with 12 to 15 years of overall experience; Minimum 4 to 6 years of experience managing people and leading technical excellence across distributed teams working for enterprise products; 6+ years of hands on software engineering experience in backend development C# / .NET with a deep understanding of distributed systems, software performance, databases concurrency and data structures; Strong grasp of microservices architecture, REST APIs, ASP.NET Web API, AWS cloud-native principles; Ability to understand and review scalable systems design that can handle complex business logic; Strong AWS experience to be able to lead the AWS chapter globally in the software factory for Skywise; Experience leading topics like FinOps, exploring upcoming AWS features and suggesting improvements for products; 3+ years of experience directly managing engineers, including performance management, hiring, handling difficult conversations, conflict management; Exceptional ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value for stakeholders and to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams

Nice to have

Experience with a matrix / SAFe organization: Proven ability to influence without absolute authority and navigate complex matrix structures where your direct reports work in different squads; Experience operating within the SAFe setup; Aviation domain knowledge: Understanding of Airline operations, specifically Operations Control, Flight planning, crew management; Experience building mission critical software where high availability and safety are non-negotiable

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements