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About FM: FM is a 190-year-old, Fortune 500 commercial property insurance company of 6,000+ employees with a unique focus on science and risk engineering. Serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 and major corporations globally, they deliver data-driven strategies that enhance resilience, ensure business continuity, and empower organizations to thrive. FM India located in Bengaluru is a strategic location for driving FM's global operational efficiency that allows them to leverage the country’s talented workforce and advance their capabilities to serve their clients better. Role Title: Sr Software Engineering Manager Position Summary: This role is a player / coach manager and a contributing member of multiple technology teams. It oversees technology delivery of their teams, which may be comprised of full-time technologists, contingent workers, and/or vendor partners. This role guides technology direction and leads technical initiatives at an organization level and across product teams. They are the quality gatekeeper of their teams and ensures FM development, security, and test standards are followed by overseeing coding process and ensures standards and process such as code reviews, refinement, and releases are followed through their technical guidance and leadership. They are a servant leader and helps to remove obstacles from their teams proactively identifying risk and providing technology proof of concept and templates. This role is focused on building strong teams and ensures their team members have the appropriate technical skills and cultural fit through coaching and mentoring. The role helps to build and maximize the capabilities and skills within and across the Software Engineering department. They are responsible for the development and growth of their full-time employees and building of their individual competencies. They are responsible for team composition optimization, for reviewing priorities and assessing resource and or backlog redirection, for metrics associated with talent evolution, and for all other administrative responsibilities within the department. The role holder is a technologist who identifies relevant technology trends and tools that could improve skillsets within the organization and overall technology product delivery. This role acts as practice leader who engages with product owners as a technical SME. Job Responsibilities: Technical Value Delivery – Team Level for all Team Members: Driving Delivery & Tech Needs. Quality Gatekeeper: Coding Process, Code Reviews, Refinement, Releases, Technical Guidance & Leadership. Remove Blockers - Raise Risks, CRs, Paves the Way via POCs, Templating. Removes Distractions. Team Building - Building Strong Dev Teams, Tech & Cultural Fit Eval, Coach & Mentor the Team. Administration – Team Level: Admin of/for Direct Reports both full-time and contingent: Hiring, Workday Admin, HR, Immigration, Required Training, Access, Contracts, Legal, Budgeting, Planning. Develops Talent – Individual Level for Full Time Employees, 1:1s, Individual Coach & Mentor, Training, Finding New Opportunities, Performance Reviews, Promotions. Expand Capabilities – SBE, Tech Product Level: Drives Strategy, Leading Strategic Org Objectives: Future Tech Needs, POCs, Community of Interest sponsorship. Skill and Experience: 10 to 16 years of Experience Required to Perform Essential Job Functions. Additional Experience Qualifier (optional): Experience in development and evaluating technologies, running effective technology proof of concepts, and managing technology vendor relationships. Experience interviewing, hiring and assessing personnel. Experience in coaching, mentoring, and developing highly motivated technical workforce. Strong background in appropriate areas of technology. Communication skills to provide guidance and education on new concepts and practices to engineering team members; Ability to provide clear and direction communication regarding performance and skill development; Proven skills in coaching engineering team members in the areas of performance, standards and work methods; Proven ability to resolve conflicts in within and across teams; before they escalate (mediation skills); Ability to organize events (theme meetings, hackathons) in the subject area; Ability to create an atmosphere of trust and comfortable and efficient work environment. Must Have Skills: Enterprise software architecture and full SDLC, including AI software tooling HTML, CSS, C#, .NET, JavaScript, and SQL Cloud-native development, containerization, and integration/API design Software quality and security principles and practices Low-code platforms like OutSystems or MS Power Platform is a plus Education and Certifications: B. E / B.Tech / Any Master's Degree Work location: Bengaluru