Engineering Manager

About the Company

First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE : FAF) family of companies, a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and was named one of FORTUNE’s 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2023. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing / settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. FAI has been certified a Great Place to work by Great Place to work Institute®, is a certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices.

About the Role

Looking for an experienced Engineering leader with 15+ yrs. in experience who can work directly with Product, Research and Design teams to build complex software applications, ensuring engineering output meets the highest of quality standards and the team continues to thrive, grow, and continuously improve.

What we have for you

Opportunity to lead multiple engineering teams in cloud native technologies in designing & developing microservices to build title and escrow APIs for all divisions of First American.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the quality & quantity of engineering delivery of squads with continuous, iterative improvement through better planning and execution.

Work with closely with engineering and product leaders to provide thought and execution leadership towards strategic outcomes.

Work closely with Product managers, Architects & Leads, to perform complex software process definition, requirements analysis, and high-level design / modeling to convert stakeholder needs into software solutions with thorough feasibility analysis (Technical, Financial, Operational)

Attract, nurture, coach, and retain talent. Ensure every assigned engineer, lead, architect has a career progression plan through regular check-in points and real-time feedback.

Contribute to creating an enhanced skill matrix to drive training, development, and career goals for engineers.

Take a lead at defining & building the vision for our engineering organization & interact with other departments to organize support wherever necessary.

Work towards identify a unified quality and standards framework for application development and support.

Create a robust production support framework targeted at troubleshooting, conflict resolution and observability to address problems early and support the team on production & nonproduction application issues.

Required Skills

An ideal candidate should have understanding & hands-on experience with following technologies :

Prior experience in handling, training & supporting agile teams with size of 10-15 developers.

Experience in design, develop and maintaining .Net based web applications within all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with C#, MVC 5, ASP.Net, Web API, .NET Core and Microservices, SQL Server 2014 / 2016 / 2018.

Should be proficient at Cloud concepts & guiding principles - Various cloud solution like AWS or AZURE and their key features, advantages, and disadvantages.

Should have worked on complex distributed architectural enterprise applications & have Experience of Object-Oriented programming practices (SOLID principles, Design pattern).

Should be well versed with the security frameworks, assessing vulnerabilities, Secured Code, SSL / Non-SSL, Vulnerability tests amongst the areas being proficient at.

Designing and specifying the overall software structure, core elements, and properties by understanding the software requirements, constraints, interfaces, and dependencies and identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications.

Developing the architectural guidelines, specifications, and technical standards, including coding standards, tools, services, and platforms related to current and future technological environments

Communicating the design of the software architecture to stakeholders