Responsibilities Own sprint delivery across 3–4 teams; maintain an honest and proactive delivery signal upward
Identify and resolve cross-team dependencies laterally — with peer managers, tech leads, and adjacent teams — without defaulting to escalation.Protect teams from delivery noise (ad-hoc requests, priority thrash) while preserving legitimate business responsiveness
Diagnose and act on sprint performance issues — distinguishing people, process, and technical root causes
Technical Leadership.Earn credibility with senior engineers through a hands-on dev background; challenge estimates, assess feasibility, and surface technical risk on a Java/Spring Boot/Kafka stack
Engage meaningfully on architectural and design decisions —not as a decision-maker, but as a credible technical voice.Identify risks in proposed solutions and engage constructively without undermining tech leads
People Development.Manage ~30 engineers in Pune through tech leads; own their growth, career development, and retention.Build career paths that feel visible and achievable in an offshore context
Identify and turn around flight-risk engineers early; track attrition signals proactively
Develop tech leads — both their technical and people-leadership capability
Build a locally owned team culture in Pune — not one that feels execution-driven from onshore
Ensure Pune-based engineers receive equivalent growth, visibility, and development opportunities as onshore
Run distributed performance management cycles in partnership with onshore product owners
Drive thoughtful AI tooling adoption across teams — balancing experimentation with quality and security guardrails
Measure whether AI tools are genuinely improving velocity, not just creating a perception of speed
Required B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering disciplinePreferred M.Tech or MBA
,7–12 years total experience with 1-2 years of people management, including hands-on software engineering
Experience managing multiple scrum teams simultaneously
Prior work on Java/Spring Boot microservices
Experience managing offshore or distributed engineering teams
Familiarity with Kafka, reactive programming, and integration patterns (SQS, JMS)
Exposure to OA/academic publishing platforms or similarly complex B2B SaaS environments
Agile/Scrum certification (CSM, SAFe, or equivalente
Virtusa is a global product and platform engineering services company that makes experiences better with technology. We help organizations grow faster, more profitably, and more sustainably by reimagining enterprises through domain-driven solutions. We combine strategy, design, and engineering, backed by unmatched expertise at the intersection of industry, business, and technology to generate real-world business impact for clients.
Headquartered in Massachusetts with global delivery centers, Virtusa provides a broad range of services, solutions, and assets, including strategy and design, AI advisory and services, digital engineering, data and analytics, digital assurance, cloud and security, cx transformation and managed services across industries such as financial services, healthcare, communications, media, entertainment, travel, manufacturing, and technology.
