Engineer Manager

About The Opportunity
Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 14 December 2025

Job Description
Title
Engineer Manager

Department
ISS Delivery

Location
Bangalore

Reports To
ISS Data Engineers Lead

Level
6

About Fidelity International
Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.56 million customers globally. As a privately-held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals.

About Your Team
ISS Delivery provides the design and delivery of all changes in processes and/or technology solutions that support the growth for Fidelity's Global Investment Solutions & Services business (ISS). We support Investment Management, Asset Management Operations and Distribtion team primarily located in London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Toronto, Australia, Singapore and China.

About Your Role
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for Data Engineering to lead, grow, and inspire our team of data engineers. This role focuses on building a high-performing engineering culture, ensuring timely and reliable delivery of robust data solutions, and aligning the team's work with organizational priorities. While technical knowledge provides context, the emphasis is on leadership, delivery management, and stakeholder engagement.

Strategic Impact
As an Engineering Manager, you will directly contribute to our key organizational objectives:

Cost Efficiency

• Improve productivity through automating routine maintenance tasks
• Decrease time to deliver continuous improvement initiatives
• Optimize infrastructure costs through efficient database design

Risk Mitigation

• Improve system documentation and knowledge transfer
• Increase automated testing coverage
• Enhance system and location resiliency

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and coach a team of data engineers, fostering career growth and high performance
• Delivery Management: Own delivery timelines, scope, and outcomes for engineering projects, ensuring commitments are met with quality and consistency
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, and technology leaders to define priorities, set realistic expectations, and provide transparent updates
• Strategic Alignment: Translate business objectives into actionable team goals, balancing short-term project delivery with long-term platform evolution
• Operational Excellence: Establish and enforce standards for delivery, documentation, quality, and reliability across all projects
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with Data Architecture, Product, and Cloud teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise-wide strategy
• Change & Modernization: Oversee migration and modernization initiatives, ensuring seamless delivery and minimal disruption to business operations
• Culture Building: Create an inclusive, collaborative, and psychologically safe environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement

Essential Skills And Experience

• 7+ years of experience in data or software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership or management role
• Demonstrated success in leading teams to deliver business-critical projects on time and within scope
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience in communicating timelines, trade-offs, and decisions across technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven ability to prioritize competing demands, manage dependencies, and drive alignment across multiple teams
• Excellent people leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring, developing, and motivating engineers
• Experience improving delivery processes and fostering a culture of accountability and excellence
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and iterative delivery practices
• Knowledge of investment management industry concepts, particularly security reference data, fund reference data, transactions, orders, holdings, different asset classes and fund accounting

Desirable Skills And Experience

• Experience managing data engineering teams across both traditional database systems and cloud-based platforms
• Background in delivering large-scale data migration or modernization initiatives within complex organizations
• Familiarity with data governance, security, and compliance considerations in financial services
• Track record of building and scaling high-performing, delivery-focused engineering teams
• Ability to champion innovation and adoption of new practices, tools, and delivery models
• Experience of front office investment risk and/or analytics systems

Feel rewarded
For starters, we'll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We'll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we'll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It's all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit