Executive Manager | Delivery Manager | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

A Day in the Life In this role, you will lead multiple engineering PODs delivering high-impact platform capabilities across Rental and Digital ecosystems. Your day will involve balancing strategic leadership with execution oversight, ensuring teams are aligned to both long-term architectural goals and near-term delivery commitments. You will collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, and Operations leaders to evolve systems supporting end-to-end rental workflows, counter operations, customer journeys, and mobile experiences. You will guide teams through complex decisions such as modernizing legacy systems, adopting microservices and event-driven patterns, and optimizing system performance at scale. A significant part of your day will be spent mentoring engineering leaders, reviewing architectural decisions, resolving cross-team dependencies, and ensuring consistent adoption of best practices across cloud platforms, CI/CD, observability, and security. You will also engage with executive stakeholders to provide visibility into delivery progress, risks, and investment priorities, while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across globally distributed teams. Key Responsibilities: · Define and articulate a long-term technology vision and platform strategy aligned to business growth, operational scalability, and customer experience goals · Oversee multiple engineering domains (backend, frontend, mobile, QA, DevOps) ensuring alignment across RAC and/ or Digital platforms · Drive large-scale transformation initiatives including: · Legacy system modernization · Microservices and API adoption · Event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka) · Lead organizational design, hiring, and development of Senior Managers, Architects, and Tech Leads · Establish governance frameworks for: · Architecture standards · Security and compliance · Engineering quality and performance · Partner with Product and business stakeholders to define roadmaps for rental workflows, pricing systems, customer journeys, and mobile platforms · Own engineering KPIs including delivery velocity, system reliability, performance SLAs, and cost efficiency · Manage budgets, capacity planning, vendor relationships, and resource allocation · Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, and engineering excellence · Represent engineering leadership in executive forums, customer discussions, and partner engagements