Senior Engineering Manager — Jaipur, India (On-site)

Job description

About Antares Established in 2006, Antares Solutions is a highly successful and profitable professional services organisation based in Sydney, Australia, with a strong customer focus and an experienced team of consultants. Antares is now on a new venture to develop and build products for its clients in Australia and globally. As a highly regarded Microsoft Partner, Antares primarily delivers solutions in Modern Work, Data and AI, and Application Development. The Role We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to found and lead our Jaipur office. You will balance technical delivery with team and operational leadership: contributing to architecture and code, while hiring, mentoring and establishing engineering processes and local operations. You will partner closely with product, consulting and architecture teams in Australia and act as a trusted technical advisor to onshore team and our clients. What You’ll Do • Technical leadership and delivery - Lead design and development of scalable SaaS/PaaS products on Microsoft Azure using .NET, React and Power BI as required. - Drive code quality, performance, security and observability best practices. - Make and document architectural decisions, patterns and engineering standards in consultation with the onshore team. • Client engagement and pre-sales - Collaborate with onshore architects and consultants to translate business needs into technical solutions. - Lead solution design sessions and technical workshops. • People leadership and team building - Hire, mentor and coach engineers; develop career pathways and a growth-oriented culture. - Establish and own engineering processes: agile ceremonies, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, testing and monitoring. • Establishing the Jaipur office - Set up local engineering operations including hiring and onboarding staff. - Partner with the Australia head office on HR, legal and administrative processes. - Champion Antares’ culture and collaboration practices across locations. • Innovation and continuous improvement - Stay current with Microsoft cloud technologies, AI/ML capabilities and frontend frameworks, and drive adoption of appropriate technologies. - Promote best practices, platform reliability and engineering excellence across the team. About You • Proven experience developing and delivering .NET applications on Microsoft Azure (3–8+ years preferred). • Strong frontend experience with React or Angular; interest in AI enabled applications and modern web architectures. • Demonstrated experience across full project lifecycle: presales, design, implementation and delivery. • Prior experience leading, mentoring or hiring engineering teams, or clear potential to grow into an effective people manager. • Excellent communication skills — able to present technical concepts clearly to stakeholders across time zones and cultures. • Strong problem-solving skills and pragmatic decision-making in ambiguous environments. • Experience working with onshore distributed teams and cross-cultural collaboration. • Familiarity with Microsoft technologies – M365, Graph, Teams, Power Platform and other Azure services App Services, Functions, AKS, SQL/Cosmos DB, DevOps pipelines is highly regarded. • Experience setting up or scaling teams or offices, including hiring and operational setup, is a strong advantage.