Software Engineering Manager

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.

Position Overview We are looking for a dynamic and strategic Development Team Manager to lead our Active Integration R&D team in Pune. Your mission is to build and manage a high-performing team of engineers—including UI/UX & AI experts, Cloud Lead Developers, and Teamcenter specialists—to deliver the next generation of Siemens Xcelerator solutions.

The Active Integration platform features smart and ready to use gateways for SAP Business Suite, Oracle EBS, Opcenter, Product Cost Management and other Enterprise Applications.

As the Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a highly multi-functional, agile team comprising both local and external/contractor developers. In this role, you will act as a key bridge, collaborating closely with Product Management and the Software Operations team to orchestrate seamless software delivery. You will cultivate a collaborative culture that balances operational excellence with rapid innovation, ensuring our engineering efforts align directly with business and product objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Personnel Management & Leadership: Partner closely with the Software Engineering Manager to supervise, hire, train, appraise, reward, motivate, and discipline engineering staff, including recommending termination when necessary.

• Technical Guidance & Mentorship: Act as the technical lead and mentor for junior engineers, offering high-level technical expertise, problem resolution, and leadership to the development group.

• System Design & Architecture: Create, document, and implement robust software designs, which includes spearheading the significant re-architecting of critical internal systems.

• Drive the adoption of AI-based development approaches within the team, ensuring AI is used as a core competency to accelerate engineering productivity.

• Functional Quality Assurance: Be responsible for and ensure the overall functional quality of all released software products, focusing on high-quality, on-time delivery that exceeds customer expectations.

• Product Direction & Innovation: Influence the technical roadmap for a specific product area and actively promote innovation by introducing new technologies and advanced knowledge to the team and product.

• Complex Programming & Analysis: Perform in-depth, highly complex software systems programming and analysis, working independently with complete latitude for judgment on advanced projects.

• Customer Collaboration & Advisory: Regularly collaborate with customers regarding future product upgrades, using a broad knowledge of internal operating systems, application implications, and customer environments.

• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the development process, driving permanent corrective actions and operational efficiency.

• Required Qualifications & Technical Skills

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.

• Experience:

• 15+ years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in engineering management, leading R&D teams, or directing technical organizations.

• 8+ years of Hands-on experience in C++/Full Stack/Cloud/AI Technologies

• Demonstrated professional experience with Teamcenter is required.

• Proven experience scaling enterprise-level software ecosystems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale digital transformation environments.

• Enterprise Data & Migration Expertise: Demonstrated hands-on or leadership experience architecting and delivering large-scale data migration initiatives, enterprise data integration pipelines, and modern data lake / data warehouse architectures across heterogeneous systems (e.g., migrating legacy ERP/PLM data stores to cloud data platforms).

• Demonstrated success managing and orchestrating multi-functional, cross-cultural teams across international time zones (e.g., Europe and India).

• AI, Data Lakes & Analytics Mastery:

• Strong conceptual and practical understanding of AI/ML ecosystems (LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and AI tooling).

• Deep proficiency in enterprise data management, including structuring and querying data lakes, managing massive data migration projects, and establishing reliable ETL/ELT pipelines.

• Deep familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization/orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) crucial for modern AIG infrastructure.

• Extensive experience with complex system integrations (Siemens Active Integration, SAP, PLM/ERP systems, event-driven architectures, and API gateways).

• Mastery of Agile methodologies, software lifecycle (SLC) governance, quality assurance, and fostering developer productivity through modern AI-assisted coding tools.

• Exceptional communication skills; ability to align executive leadership, product management, and hands-on engineering teams around a unified AI-first vision.

Why us? Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!

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