Senior Manager Software Engineering

Senior Manager Software Engineering

Company:

Boeing India Private Limited

Overview

As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing’s team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company’s core values of safety, quality and integrity.

Technology for today and tomorrow

The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) is a 5500+ engineering workforce that contributes to global aerospace growth. Our engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D, innovation, and high-quality engineering work in global markets, and leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML, IIoT, Cloud, Model-Based Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing, shaping the future of aerospace.

People-driven culture

At Boeing, we believe creativity and innovation thrives when every employee is trusted, empowered, and has the flexibility to choose, grow, learn, and explore. We offer variable arrangements depending upon business and customer needs, and professional pursuits that offer greater flexibility in the way our people work. We also believe that collaboration, frequent team engagements, and face-to-face meetings bring together different perspectives and thoughts – enabling every voice to be heard and every perspective to be respected.  No matter where or how our teammates work, we are committed to positively shaping people’s careers and being thoughtful about employee wellbeing.

With us, you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career, community, country, and world. Join us in powering the progress of global aerospace.

This role will be based out of Bengaluru, India.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status

Position Responsibilities:

​People & Strategy

• Hire, coach, and retain 25-40 full stack software developers and managers across India, and Poland, shaping a culture of psychological safety, inclusion, and mission focus. Manage resource allocation to support existing and emergent products, while growing career aspirations of talented software development teams.

• Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply-Chain, and AI leaders to translate capability gaps into clear product backlogs and measurable OKRs.

• Drive adoption of modern agile frameworks (Scrum/SAFe) and Lean software metrics (cycle time, MTTR, DORA).

• Lead quarterly architecture reviews, technology-radar sessions, and invest in upskilling developers on server-side rendering, micro-frontends, AWS artifacts and services, and generative-AI patterns.

• Define a robust and comprehensive software support model for products in production that ensures business continuity, cost effective support and high reliability of our products.

Execution Excellence

• Own the full software development ecosystem for multiple products, from roadmap to production support, enforcing engineering best practices (code review, test automation, trunk-based development).

• Define and operate global DevSecOps pipelines: Git-based workflows, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Argo CD, IaC (Terraform), SCA/SAST/DAST scanning, SBOM generation, and automated container promotion across IL2-IL5 environments.

• Champion observability—centralized logging, distributed tracing, custom metrics, synthetic tests—using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, OpenTelemetry.

• Ensure every service adheres to data-classification rules such as ITAR, EAR, and CUI.

Basic Qualifications

• Related work experience, Relevant military experience, or advanced degree preferred but not required.

• 10+ years of professional software-engineering experience, 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary teams and managers that ship production software.

• Proven track record delivering large-scale full-stack solutions with React/TypeScript, Java 11+/Spring Boot, and Node.js/Express in production.

• Demonstrated mastery of CI/CD and DevSecOps in regulated environments—pipelines that embed security gates, artifact signing, and infrastructure-as-code for AWS (CloudFormation or Terraform).

• Deep knowledge of AWS GovCloud services: VPC, EKS, S3, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, and KMS.

• Hands-on experience running distributed monitoring/observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, OpenTelemetry).

• Familiarity with data-classification & export-control frameworks (ITAR, EAR, CMMC) and ability to build compliant technical workflows.

• Strong understanding of contemporary AI/ML patterns (LLM orchestration, MLOps, vector search, edge inference) and how to integrate them into transactional systems.

• Ability to travel between India and Poland on some regular frequency.

Preferred Qualifications

• A Masters or PhD in computer science or related fields from a top-rated institution.

• Prior leadership in an aerospace, defense, or highly regulated industry; exposure to design-to-manufacture value streams.

• Experience with domain-driven design, microservice & event-driven architectures (Kafka, SNS/SQS), and micro-frontend patterns (Module Federation).

• Background in global team orchestration (follow-the-sun release management, 24×7).

• Demonstrated working knowledge of secure coding guidelines (NIST 800-53, OWASP ASVS, STIG hardening).

Leadership Competencies

• Customer-focused: frames technical decisions around user value and mission impact.

• Bar-raiser: sets a high technical bar, models quality code, and fosters a feedback-rich environment.

• Data-driven: uses leading & lagging metrics to improve predictability and reliability.

• Continuously challenges status quo with automation, self-service, and reusable platform components.

• Earns trust with cross-functional stakeholders by communicating effectively, managing risks transparently, and delivering on commitments.

• Best in class: Promotes best practices that enable agile and rapid application development.

• People focus: Coach, mentor and develop talented individuals that range from junior to very senior levels of experience.

• Team building: Build a cohesive teaming environment across Poland, India and the US development teams.

What You’ll Own in Your First 12 Months

Modernize the existing global CI/CD pipeline to achieve <2 hour secure path-to-prod for priority apps. Ship two new AI-enabled apps with micro-services to production with >99.9% availability. Stand-up an enterprise observability stack that drives MTTR < 30 minutes for critical workflows. Recruit & onboard 10 full stack software developers, DevOps engineers, and data engineers Publish a technology roadmap aligning React 18, Spring Boot 3, Java 21 LTS, and GenAI capabilities with product OKRs.

Desired Skills (Preferred qualifications):

• Related work experience, Relevant military experience or advanced degree preferred but not required.

 

Typical Education & Experience:

• Typically 21 or more years' related work experience or relevant military experience, advanced degree (Eg Bachelor or Master etc) preferred but not required.

Relocation:

This position does offer relocation within INDIA.

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Not Applicable

Relocation:

This position offers relocation based on candidate eligibility.

Security Clearance:

This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Not a Shift Worker (India)