Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Business Summary:

The Deltek Engineering and Technology team builds best-in-class solutions to delight customers and meet their business needs. We are laser-focused on software design, development, innovation, and quality. Our team of experts has the talent, skills, and values to deliver products and services that are easy to use, reliable, sustainable, and competitive. If you're looking for a safe environment where ideas are welcome, growth is supported, and questions are encouraged – consider joining us as we explore the limitless opportunities of the software industry.

Position Responsibilities:

Deltek is seeking an India-based Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed Shared Product Services team responsible for building reusable capabilities and driving cross-product engineering consistency across the Deltek PPM (Project Portfolio Management) suite of products. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this leader plays a critical role in reducing duplication, accelerating delivery, and ensuring product teams can ship with confidence and quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver shared capabilities — Build reusable services, libraries, frameworks, and integration models that product teams across the PPM suite can adopt to reduce duplication and improve consistency
• Drive product-team adoption — Partner with product teams to integrate shared functionality, creating adoption paths, migration guidance, release notes, and support models that respect release timelines and customer commitments
• Own cross-product control processes — Lead engineering governance processes including Database Change Control and Security Vulnerability management, ensuring visibility and consistency across teams
• Manage global delivery — Coordinate work across distributed teams with differing priorities and release schedules; maintain alignment through clear written communication and proactive risk management
• Champion reliability and operational excellence — Set high standards for security, performance, and operational readiness; drive disciplined practices around testing, rollback planning, documentation, and incident learning
• Embed AI-first engineering practices — Define and evolve AI-first development practices that improve code quality, delivery speed, testing, documentation, and team productivity
• Lead the Customer Care liaison function — Own the Help Desk liaison between Customer Care and Development, ensuring customer-reported issues and escalations are triaged, routed, and resolved effectively
• Grow and develop the team — Manage, coach, and develop a distributed team of approximately 8–10 engineers/technical staff, fostering a culture of ownership, technical judgment, collaboration, and customer focus

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful hands-on engineering work
• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including people management, delivery accountability, and team development
• Experience with Enterprise Windows Desktop and Web solutions built on technologies including C++, C#.Net, VB.Net, JavaScript, Oracle, and SQL Server
• Experience leading teams that built reusable software capabilities — shared services, common components, internal libraries, SDKs, frameworks, or APIs — consumed by multiple product or engineering teams
• Strong technical judgment across architecture, design, security, reliability, database change, and operational discussions
• Proven ability to deliver complex technical programs with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and competing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to influence teams and senior technical contributors outside your direct reporting line
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level updates and decision documents
• Experience working effectively across time zones with globally distributed teams and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in multi-product enterprise software environments
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams and partnering with US-based senior engineering leadership
• Experience with shared component versioning, backward compatibility, package management, migration planning, and deprecation strategies
• Experience managing database change control, vulnerability remediation, or cross-product engineering governance
• Experience partnering with customer support or sustaining engineering functions to triage and resolve product issues
• Experience using AI-assisted tools to improve software delivery, code review, testing, documentation, or engineering management workflows
• Experience leading teams through modernization, technical consolidation, or cross-product standardization initiatives