Senior Manager - Strategic Engineering

Overview

Job Title: Senior Manager – Strategic Engineering

The Senior Manager – Strategic Engineering is responsible for enabling and strengthening the organization’s centralized engineering model by driving strategic resource planning, governance, and deployment of engineering capabilities across multiple technical domains. The role ensures optimal utilization of engineering talent, cost efficiency of bench strength, and alignment of engineering capacity with business priorities and emerging opportunities. This position also leads centralized resource management through structured skill inventory, demand-driven workforce planning, and the Build-Buy-Borrow framework to ensure sustainable capability development and delivery excellence across entities.

• Strategic Engineering & Centralization:
  Execute the Strategic Engineering roadmap to support engineering centralization, scalability, and innovation objectives.
• Strategic Engineering & Centralization:
  Drive centralization of engineering capabilities based on assessment of group-wide resources, capability gaps, and potential business opportunities.
• Strategic Engineering & Centralization:
  Establish a centralized engineering model that improves efficiency, capability visibility, and responsiveness to strategic and operational needs.
• Strategic Engineering & Centralization:
  Align centralized engineering capacity with short-term program requirements and long-term organizational growth priorities.
• Resource Planning & Workforce Optimization:
  Lead engineering resource planning, demand forecasting, and capacity management across centralized engineering pools.
• Resource Planning & Workforce Optimization:
  Optimize the cost and utilization of bench strength by proactively managing deployment, redeployment, and workforce balancing.
• Resource Planning & Workforce Optimization:
  Implement effective resource management strategies to ensure optimal allocation, mobility, and productivity across programs and entities.
• Resource Planning & Workforce Optimization:
  Govern resource allocation based on business priority, technical capability, availability, and strategic value.
• Skill Inventory & Capability Management:
  Establish and maintain a comprehensive engineering skill inventory aligned with current and future demand patterns.
• Skill Inventory & Capability Management:
  Continuously monitor capability gaps and workforce readiness to support emerging technologies, programs, and strategic initiatives.
• Skill Inventory & Capability Management:
  Enable data-driven workforce planning using skill mapping, utilization metrics, and capability forecasting.
• Skill Inventory & Capability Management:
  Promote capability development, upskilling, and cross-functional mobility to enhance workforce flexibility and readiness.
• Build-Buy-Borrow Workforce Strategy:
  Implement and operationalize the Build-Buy-Borrow framework to ensure optimal sourcing of engineering talent.
• Build-Buy-Borrow Workforce Strategy:
  Build:
  Develop internal capabilities through training, upskilling, and workforce development programs.
• Build-Buy-Borrow Workforce Strategy:
  Buy:
  Support strategic hiring aligned with capability gaps and long-term organizational needs.
• Build-Buy-Borrow Workforce Strategy:
  Borrow:
  Leverage contractors, partners, or shared resources to address short-term or specialized requirements. Ensure cost-effective and strategic workforce decisions aligned with organizational objectives.
• Governance, Performance & Stakeholder Management:
  Drive standardization of engineering processes, tools, methodologies, and quality standards across centralized and entity-level teams.
• Governance, Performance & Stakeholder Management:
  Monitor engineering utilization, bench cost, deployment efficiency, and delivery performance metrics.
• Governance, Performance & Stakeholder Management:
  Establish governance frameworks for engineering resource management, workforce planning, and centralization effectiveness.
• Governance, Performance & Stakeholder Management:
  Engage with business leaders, program managers, and engineering stakeholders to align resource plans with program delivery needs.
• Governance, Performance & Stakeholder…