Engineering Manager Purpose of the job We re on the hunt for an Engineering Manager who s passionate about building great teams, shipping products fast, and fostering an inspiring engineering culture. You ll be the kind of person who loves to see engineers grow, removes obstacles before they become problems, and knows that the best teams deliver not because of deadlines, but because they re truly engaged in what they re building. You ll bring a strong technical background having been a software engineer yourself so you get how engineers think, and how to help them thrive. You believe in iterating fast, learning from failure, and building scalable, maintainable systems without getting bogged down in bureaucracy. This is more than just managing people; you ll be a key figure in our product and delivery processes, helping refine new features and functionality, taking point on our adoption of BDD across the engineering team, and supporting our scrum teams in moving quickly while not forgetting the excellent technical standard and necessary compliance alignment our customers expect of us. You ll be accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes of your teams and will support around 20-30 software engineers. If you re excited by the idea of leading talented software engineers in an environment where autonomy, experimentation, and getting products to market quickly are the norm, then we d love to hear from you. Key Responsibilities Lead, mentor, and support a team of globally located software engineers helping them grow, develop, and do their best work. Create an environment where engineers are empowered, engaged, and genuinely love what they do. Foster a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence where engineers aren t just delivering, they re levelling up. Drive hiring, ensuring we attract and retain top-tier engineering talent who thrive in a high-impact environment. Work with Product, Delivery, and other Engineering leaders to ensure the team is focused on the right things. Help teams prioritise ruthlessly, so we re delivering real value not just completing tickets. Cut through blockers, eliminate unnecessary complexity, and create an environment where teams can ship at speed. Champion a fail-fast, learn-fast mindset experimentation, rapid iteration, and pragmatic decision-making. Making sure our engineering team feel at home at Collinson being themselves, unashamed of who they are or what makes them unique. Feel at home working across a range of systems and technologies, excited by the diversity of our product portfolio. Support our engineers in refinement sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, making sure teams are always learning and moving forward in a progressive way. Help shape our approach to modern software engineering automation, testing, cloud-native architectures, and is excited about really maximising the possibilities of AI in our working lives. Be a voice for engineering best practices, while staying practical and always remembering our customers. Knowledge, skills and experience required Hands-on experience as a software engineer before moving into leadership you understand the craft. A strong track record of leading, mentoring, and growing engineering teams. Experience in hiring and retaining world-class engineers. A passion for modern software engineering cloud, automation, testing strategies, and continuous delivery. A natural ability to remove barriers, cut through noise, and create clarity so teams can do their best work. A mindset that values learning, experimentation, and adaptability over rigid processes. Experience with AWS and Typescript would be great to have as well. Division Engineering Tech Mumbai Engineering Tech Mumbai

Purpose of the job This role will drive the India market growth strategy within the Financial Services and Non- Financial Services vertical with a primary focus on Collinson s Travel Experiences/Priority Pass solutions. The purpose of this role is to work in line with global and regional business strategies, to determine the market focus and goals, and to lead and manage a team of high performing business development, account management, and lounge partner management individuals. The Commercial Director, India will be expected to deliver challenging commercial results and help develop future for the group in this key market. The end objective is India market dominance. This is a senior leadership role in India that will be expected to develop and project Collinson s identity and reputation in the local market, act as a figurehead for the business through engagement and participation in industry groups, trade / media functions, other marketing and awareness activities, and networking with key influencers. A critical part of this role will be working in very close collaboration with Collinson s Regional Account Directors for Visa, MasterCard, and Amex to ensure tight global, regional and local alignment with these key customers. This role will include working with the regional and global propositions team to develop localised propositions for our global solutions, where it is commercially feasible and agreed with global and regional stakeholders. This may require collaborating with local, regional or global 3rd parties as needed. Key Responsibilities Ongoing assessment of the market landscape and opportunities in India - building go to market plans that include the key propositions in the focus vertical. Assess where to deploy resources most effectively and identify where there is the highest likelihood for long term sustainable profit. Ensure that local market execution plans are aligned to global and regional credit card networks Develop and maintain deep senior level relationships within Indian Financial Services institutions. Ensure the continuous expansion of Collinson s India lounge network through the establishment of deep relationships with lounge operators and maintaining Collinson as the preferred partner Wherever possible establish exclusive relationships with lounge operators Oversight of robust negotiation of Collinson India s lounge costs to ensure a best in market cost base. Driving growth in market share with a key objective of obtaining market leader status. Work with regional and central resources to ensure that products and services are fit for purpose in market, priced appropriately, with all the necessary sales and marketing collateral in place and that there is a clear set of value propositions in place Deliver an agreed revenue target of new business sales on an on-going basis, drive a high performing sales and account management team providing inspirational leadership Personally contribute to results through managing senior / strategic opportunities, developing business through presenting at conferences, networking events, being a media spokesperson for the market and where appropriate leading pitches and RFP responses Track market and competitor trends to identify business and proposition threats and opportunities relating to Collinson propositions and products within market Make a strategic contribution to global product / proposition development and evolution, representing local market needs, opportunities and perspective and where agreed work with global teams to develop local propositions Knowledge, skills and experience required Experienced, customer facing individual with the ability to work autonomously Overall 15 years business experience would be expected for a role of this seniority Well networked in the financial services and travel sectors and with a good understanding of customer engagement Aptitude and enthusiasm for pitched and consultancy/solution-based business development with demonstrable experience in landing major clients and projects Able to work effectively in a complex matrix organisation environment with multiple interfaces at a central, regional, and local level. Able to provide thought leadership and direction to functional teams thereby leading the development of the market ensuring products and propositions fit the market and are constantly refined as the market, and competitors, evolve their offerings Person Specification Strong relationship / network manager, able to successfully collaborate with peers, executives, staff and external contacts as part of a global matrix organization Growth/ profit focused with proven ability to assess and develop large and complex opportunities Excellent sales leadership skills; able to inspire, develop and motivate a commercial team Fluency in English articulate and able to convincingly present complex ideas and concepts in verbal and written form Having a can-do, problem-solving attitude with a sociable personality Strong influencing skills, ability to inspire confidence and create trust A driven individual that will roll-up their sleeves and lead the team from the front inspiring the art of the possible Division Sales & Commercial Remote status Hybrid