Vice President Engineering - Back End

About M&G IndiaWe are M&G India, the strategic innovation and digital hub for M&G. Established in 2003, we have offices in Mumbai and Pune.Our teams work closely with colleagues across the Group worldwide to drive transformation, build digital capability, and support sustainable growth. By leveraging technology, AI, automation, and process excellence, we bring new ways of thinking to improve outcomes for both customers and colleagues.Grounded in a vibrant culture with strong foundations, we are central to how M&G is transforming as a business. About M&GOur purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.At M&G we are on a very exciting digital transformation journey towards a more agile, customer-centric and digital-first way of working. We have lots to improve and plenty of interesting challenges we'd like you to get involved in.We are on a journey to reinvent how people think about their financial future. Making conversations around retirement easier and more relevant, offering diversified products, rethinking and improving the end-to-end experience for our customers and using technology to effectively engage with them in real time and help them make better decisions about their finances.The journey has started already, are you ready to join us? We need the best digital minds onboard in order to achieve our goal. We are looking for a Senior Manager – Engineering  to lead a team that delivers change across our technology estate. The role will be based out of our Engineering Hub in India and working in close collaboration with our UK colleagues in the business and Technology.We promote a supportive, diversified, international environment with an engineering culture we're proud of. We encourage personal growth and invest in open-minded engineers keen on learning, who continuously try to make things better.You should apply if:You have good engineering experience in the relevant technologies.You have been working in teams on large projects, actively writing code through the whole stack at some point over the last 3 years or so.You understand Agile practices like Scrum, Kanban and DevOps and have practical experience of at least one.You have leadership experience in leading teams of size 10+You enjoy collaborating closely with other members of a cross-functional team to deliver features.You care deeply about improving security and code quality and progressing collective best pra...