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Product Context

This role leads the development team for Energy Forecasting Cloud (EFC), a SaaS-based energy load and price forecasting product serving utility and energy customers. EFC is currently a hosted managed service with an established quarterly release cadence and a multidisciplinary development team of 12 based in Pune, India. The product is evolving toward a true multi-tenant SaaS architecture, and the manager in this role will steward the team and product through that transformation while maintaining delivery continuity.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a multidisciplinary Pune-based team including UI developers, fullstack engineers, research statisticians building ML and forecasting models, data pipeline specialists, and QA engineers.

• Build a high-performing, accountable team culture with strong delivery discipline and clear ownership.

• Partner with leadership on workforce planning, career development, performance management, and organizational change initiatives.

• Serve as the primary on-the-ground leadership presence for the Pune development team, operating with a high degree of autonomy.

• Own development execution across quarterly feature releases and monthly maintenance cycles as we move towards true continuous delivery.

• Manage product quality standards by ensuring functional, unit, and performance testing is comprehensive; work closely with development and testing teams to verify test plans.

• Organize, prioritize, and assign resources to implement enhancements, redesigns, and bug fixes.

• Manage project scoping and scheduling across a geographically distributed team; track progress and proactively communicate schedule or scope concerns to executive management and stakeholders, while following established R&D standards.

• Maintain accountability for the entire lifecycle of the code and service, including operational support for external customers and partners in a SaaS managed service environment.

• Own monthly compliance cadence for EFC's deployable units within the company's centralized CI/CD pipeline, including security policy and dependency management tickets.

• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, and platform enablement teams to align product roadmap, delivery pipeline strategy, and cross-functional execution.

• Contribute to the product's evolution from hosted managed service toward a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

• Support ongoing platform component transitions and vendor dependency decisions as the product's infrastructure modernizes.

• Coordinate with shared UX, documentation, and architecture resources aligned to the product.

• Provide technical leadership as appropriate for projects and to the team through mentoring, training, and managing the activities of the team.

• Lead the team through organizational change, including potential shifts in team composition, reporting lines, and product scope as the department evolves toward a product-centric operating model.

• Navigate ambiguity with confidence — the SaaS portfolio is actively evolving, and this role requires a leader who is energized by transformation, not destabilized by it.

• Build trust and maintain morale during leadership transitions and periods of strategic evaluation.

• Establish and maintain clear escalation protocols and communication rhythms with US-based leadership to ensure alignment and visibility.

Technology

• Languages: Go, React, Python, Java, JavaScript

• Analytics: SAS, CAS, Python-based statistical and machine learning models

• Databases: PostgreSQL (Azure managed)

• Containerization Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes

• Interfaces: RESTful web services

• Tools: GitHub, Gerrit, Gradle, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence

• Cloud: AWS, Azure

• Test automation frameworks: Selenium, Playwright, Robot, Pytest

• Operating systems: Windows, Linux

Requirements

• Must have a minimum of 12 years of software development/testing experience with a minimum of 8 years of technical expertise and 3-4 years as a software manager or lead.

• Proven software management/development experience in building UI and/or Mid-tier for an enterprise application.

• On the UI side, experience using JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, ReactJS (FC), or other related frameworks, and having knowledge of Unit/Integration testing frameworks, with hands-on exposure to maintaining enterprise applications in a multi-tier environment, would be preferred.

• On the mid-tier side, hands-on experience using Go or equivalent Language knowledge of micro-service-based mid-tier architecture would be preferred.

• Sound knowledge of testing methodologies/practices and ability to lead/manage testing members to ensure the highest quality of deliverables

• Sound knowledge of CI/CD pipeline & principles.

• Experience managing geographically distributed teams, with demonstrated ability to coordinate effectively across time zones and with global stakeholders.

• Familiarity with SaaS delivery models, including experience with or exposure to managed service operations, multi-tenant architecture, or cloud-native deployment pipelines.

Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities

• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through organizational transitions, product pivots, or strategic shifts without losing delivery momentum.

• Ability to operate as the sole management presence for a team, making sound decisions independently while keeping remote leadership informed.

• Clear, structured communication with executives, cross-functional partners, and Product Management - comfortable translating technical realities into business-level updates.

• Comfort operating in environments where product direction, organizational structure, or strategic priorities are actively evolving.

• Ability to earn team confidence quickly during transitions, with sensitivity to morale, retention, and career development concerns.

• Strong habits around escalation protocols, status visibility, and proactive risk communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with managed service to SaaS transformation or modernization programs.

• Energy, utilities, or forecasting domain familiarity.

• Experience working within shared, compliance-gated delivery pipelines.

• Prior experience leading teams through organizational restructuring.

• Experience partnering with Product Management on product strategy and roadmap planning.

• Talent acquisition, coaching, development, and succession planning with proven ability to foster an environment of positive employee engagement and trust.

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