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Job description
Product Engineering Lead
Tier : Tier 0
Location : India offshore (Pune / Hyderabad)
Bill rate : EUR 38/hour
Contractor : N
About the Role
We’re looking for an Product Engineering Lead to lead the technical direction of our systems while managing and growing a 100+ members engineering team. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, execution, and people leadership. You’ll define scalable technical solutions, guide engineers through complex decisions, and ensure teams deliver reliable, high-quality software.
This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll be involved in system design and key technical decisions, while also coaching engineers and owning delivery outcomes.
What You’ll Do
Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Define and evolve system architecture to support scalability, reliability, and performance
- Lead design reviews and technical decision-making across teams for product development
- Translate business and product requirements into robust technical solutions
- Identify and manage technical debt and architectural risks
- Set engineering standards and best practices
People & Delivery Management
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software leads/engineers
- Support career growth through regular feedback, coaching, and performance management
- Own team planning, execution, and delivery commitments
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and stakeholders to align priorities and timelines
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes and team effectiveness
Client Interfacing and Management
- Work with client’s technical board and drive the program deliverables and approvals
- Drive implementation of client engineering processes
Hands-on Contribution (as needed)
- Contribute to code reviews and critical implementations
- Step in on complex or high-risk technical areas
- Guide debugging and incident response when needed
What We’re Looking For
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years in a technical leadership, architect, or engineering management role
- Strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems
- Proven ability to balance architectural thinking with delivery realities across domains (Automobile, Manufacturing etc.)
- Experience managing and mentoring engineers
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Product-minded, pragmatic approach to engineering decisions
Nice to Have
- Experience leading multi-team or platform-level architecture
- Experience in Automobile domain programs
- Background in cloud-native systems and infrastructure
- Experience scaling systems or teams in high-growth environments
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum or similar delivery models
- Prior hiring and team-building experience
Tech Stack (Example)
- Backend: [e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go]
- Frontend: [e.g., React, Angular, Vue]
- Infrastructure: [e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes]
- Data: [e.g., SQL/NoSQL, streaming, data pipelines]
- Middleware: [AS400]
Key job details
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 30,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive fair and impartial treatment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or on any other basis which is protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government-issued ID during each interview. All candidates must be authorized to work in the USA.
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