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Senior Engineering Manager

IBM

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Posted on Mar 14, 2026

Introduction

At IBM, we are committed to helping enterprises modernize with speed, scale, and trust. We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a strategic transformation initiative focused on hybrid‑cloud adoption, AI‑enabled engineering, and z/OS tool migration. This role is ideal for a leader who thrives at the intersection of innovation, engineering excellence, and enterprise modernization.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will guide high‑performing engineering teams, drive technical strategy, and partner closely with stakeholders across architecture, product, and executive leadership to deliver secure, scalable, and business‑impacting solutions.

Your role and responsibilities

Lead the delivery of complex, high‑value engineering initiatives using Agile or hybrid methodologies, ensuring alignment with IBM’s quality and security standards.

Drive modernization across hybrid cloud, mainframe (z/OS) tool migration, DevOps automation, and AI‑driven engineering practices to accelerate innovation.

Shape and present technical architecture, migration strategies, cloud integration patterns, and industry trends to both engineering and executive audiences.

Provide strategic direction on the adoption of AI and Agentic AI technologies, guiding engineering teams in designing and delivering Agentic solutions.

Serve as a strategic bridge between engineering teams and senior leadership, translating technical insights into clear, actionable direction.

Introduce and operationalize new engineering capabilities including cloud optimization, infrastructure automation, observability, and AI‑enabled solutions.

Evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and vendor solutions; lead PoCs and informed technology assessments to guide adoption.

Establish and uphold engineering governance covering security, compliance, coding standards, DevOps practices, and automation frameworks.

Champion continuous improvement through enhanced tooling, productivity initiatives, platform simplification, and automation‑first engineering.

Build and maintain strong partnerships across cross‑functional groups, supporting decision‑making, alignment, and effective execution.

Mentor and develop engineering talent, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high‑performance team culture.

Track and analyze competitive, cloud, and AI trends to inform long‑term transformation roadmaps and migration strategies.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

10–15 years of experience delivering complex software or platform engineering initiatives at enterprise scale.

5–6 years of engineering management experience leading hybrid cloud, AI, or modernization programs.

Experience leading a team of 20+ engineers, with reporting into a Director‑level leader.

Deep understanding of hybrid cloud environments (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure) and cloud optimization approaches.

Experience with AI frameworks, ML lifecycle concepts, data governance, and modern AI adoption patterns.

Proven ability to communicate technical concepts to executives, business stakeholders, and cross‑discipline teams.

Strong background in engineering governance, secure development practices, and technology compliance.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Exposure to z/OS (Mainframe) development, tooling, integration, or migration initiatives.

Hands-on knowledge of Java, Python, microservices, distributed systems, or cloud‑native patterns.

Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automation tooling, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).

Certifications such as PMP, ITIL, Scrum Master, AWS/Azure Architect, or relevant IBM Cloud certifications.

Experience with data analytics, ML model operationalization, and AI‑enabled engineering workflows.

Experience with vendor engagement, tooling assessments, and contract negotiations.

Years of Experience:
10 - 15

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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