Engineering Manager

Job Description:

Location: Bangalore (onsite)

Experience: 6 - 9 years

Employment type: Full-time

The Role:

As IT Manager, you will own day-to-day IT operations and take end-to-end responsibility for the infrastructure, identity, and endpoint security that keep our people productive and our business secure. You will drive initiatives aligned to our information security programme, mentor a junior engineer, and represent IT during audits and leadership reviews. This is a hands-on functional ownership role. You will be equally comfortable writing a security policy, configuring a firewall, troubleshooting a laptop, and presenting an IT health summary to senior management.

What You Will Do:

IT Operations and User Support:

 Run daily IT operations across laptops, identity, access, networking, collaboration tooling, and meeting-room infrastructure.

 Own the end-to-end onboarding and offboarding experience - provisioning, device configuration, access, training, and clean revocation.

 Continuously improve ticket response and resolution quality.

Security and Identity:

 Administer and secure Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID, including licensing, Conditional Access, MFA, and SSO integrations.

 Own endpoint security through EDR and MDM platforms - deployment, tuning, alerting, and incident handling.

 Maintain firewall, VPN, Wi-Fi, and network segmentation.

 Run periodic vulnerability assessments and coordinate remediation.

Compliance and Audit:

 Maintain and evolve the information security management system aligned to ISO 27001:2022.

 Write, update, and communicate IT and security policies. Keep evidence audit-ready.

 Represent IT during internal and external audits.

Vendor and Asset Management:

 Manage vendor relationships for hardware, software, SaaS, endpoint security, MDM, firewall, and connectivity partners.

 Optimise SaaS licence usage across the organisation.

 Oversee the full asset lifecycle - procurement, allocation, audit, and responsible retirement.

Team and Enablement:

 Mentor and grow the junior engineer on the team.

 Lead IT onboarding sessions and periodic security awareness training.

 Build clear, leadership-facing reporting on IT health, security posture, and compliance.

What You Will Bring:

Must-haves:

 6 to 9 years in IT operations, including at least 2 years leading the function or a clear sub-function.

 Hands-on Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID administration, including Conditional Access, MFA, and SSO.

 Meaningful ISO 27001:2022 experience - you have written or significantly updated security policies and participated in at least one audit cycle.

 Hands-on deployment experience with modern EDR and MDM platforms.

 Working knowledge of networking: firewall, VLAN, VPN, DHCP, DNS, Wi-Fi security.

 Scripting ability in PowerShell or Python.

 Experience managing IT in an organisation with no or minimal on-premise server footprint.

 Strong written and spoken English.

Preferred:

 ISO 27001 Lead Implementer or Lead Auditor certification.

 Microsoft certifications: MS-102 or AZ-500.

 Experience with a SIEM platform such as Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel, or equivalent.

 Experience administering Google Workspace.

 Experience managing Zoom Rooms or Microsoft Teams Rooms.

 Familiarity with SOC 2 or GDPR.

 Background in a services or consulting company.

Why This Role:

 Short reporting line to IT leadership. Fast decisions and real mentorship.

 Full-stack ownership of a modern, cloud-first IT function.

 Exposure to current security tooling across identity, endpoint, and compliance.

 Structured career development toward a Head of IT profile.

 Compensation is competitive and will be aligned to your experience and fit.

About the Company:

Pace Wisdom Solutions is a deep-tech Product engineering and consulting firm. We have offices in San Francisco, Bengaluru, and Singapore. We specialize in designing and developing bespoke software solutions that cater to solving niche business problems.

We engage with our clients at various stages:

• Right from the idea stage to scope out business requirements.

• Design & architect the right solution and define tangible milestones.

• Setup dedicated and on-demand tech teams for agile delivery.

• Take accountability for successful deployments to ensure efficient go-to-market Implementations.

Pace Wisdom has been working with Fortune 500 Enterprises and growth-stage startups/SMEs since 2012. We also work as an extended Tech team and at times we have played the role of a Virtual CTO too. We believe in building lasting relationships and providing value-add every time. 

❖ Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.

❖ 3-5 years of experience in Encompass developer role.

❖ Experience with programming languages such as C#, JavaScript, and SQL, Encompass SDK

❖ Strong understanding of the Encompass system and its capabilities.

❖ Excellent technical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

❖ Ability to work closely with other departments and stakeholders within the organization.

❖ Analytical and data-driven mindset.

❖ Knowledge of mortgage industry regulations and compliance requirements

Responsibilities

• Identify new sales opportunities and handle inbound calls to follow up
• Make cold calls and emails to explore sales opportunities
• Achieve quarterly milestones and close sales
• Regularly study accounts and identify important players
• Collaborate with digital marketing/ other teammates and to work towards closing deals
• Maintain a detailed database with all information on the prospects
• Provide product demos and participate in events, etc.

Requirements

• Prior experience as an Inside Sales Representative in B2B/B2C space
• Should have done a similar role in the past with a Software company, with at least 1+ years’
• experience in Technology/ SaaS product Sales
• Strong sense of communication in English is mandatory and phone skills
• Preferably an MBA or an Engineer (not a must though)
• Great sales acumen with excellent communication and presentation skills
• Go-getter, or a self-motivated person
• B2B / B2C outbound cold calling experience is an added advantage, preferably in APJ and Middle East market

• Working knowledge of XML, JAVA, REST, SOAP etc
• Basic knowledge of SQL, including the ability to author ad-hoc database queries.
• Is comfortable writing code in Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Java and enjoys learning new languages and technologies.
• Has experience integrating  APIs (major plus)
• Experienced integrating RESTful APIs into web applications (a plus)
• Is experienced with Github or the likes.
• Should have worked on Payment Gateway Applications.

• Has a technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics (MBA is an asset)
• Technical Product/Software certifications an asset
• Has 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar client-facing role
• Has previous experience in a traditional software engineering or Implementation role.
• Has strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Experienced with Salesforce is a plus
• Solution-driven, able to grasp new concepts quickly and efficiently, able to work alone or in a team, able to work with no supervision and under pressure
• Excels in a collaborative and cross-functional environment.
• Demonstrates professional communication skills on technical and business-related subjects
• Experience working with payment gateways a major plus including ecommerce and Retail Experience with continuous integration and test-driven development methodologies a plus
• Excellent time management, organization, and planning skills are essential
• Flexibility to travel as required to meet with clients
• Ability to comprehend and translate complex technical issues and apply to business solutions
• Demonstrate ability to articulate complex technical terms or processes into business language
• Ability to synthesize technical information and apply to business solutions
• Able to set priorities, influence others, and manage customer and partner expectations
• Demonstrated success in customer and partner relationship management
• You are motivated, think outside of the box, and understand the purpose of process and procedures

• Can architect UI systems and has a well-honed understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of different frameworks.
• Cherishes the craft of an experience getting to perfect pixels, creating animations with just the right springs, investing in loading performance.
• Is familiar with React, Node. JS, NoSQL databases like Firebase, and AWS.
• Collaborates actively with designers, product managers, product scientists, and other engineers.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Expertise in handling out bound sales.
• Ability to communicate clearly with customers. 
• Identify potential customers to sell Taxmann’s products. Demonstrate them Products and Services.   Close sales deals and maintaining good customer rapport.
• Schedule feedback activities with existing clients to make sure they are satisfied and request referrals. Interact with customers to Cross sell products
• Follow and achieve sales goals on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis
• CRM Operations is mandatory wherein one has to maintain customer’s record and the activities done for one single customer
• Excellent Customer service skills.
• Attend trainings to stay up to date with the specifications of new products and service offerings.

Basic experience developing web applications using Cake PHP or other MVC framework

Strong PHP skills with any MVC Framework -Cake PHP / Laravel / Yii / Code ignitor, etc.

Strong MySQL, AJAX, jQuery, HTML & JavaScript skills

Experience integrating Payment Gateway and third-party PHP libraries is preferable

Work alongside a broader team with a focus on Design, UX, Optimization, Back End processes, DevOps Efficiency with the goal of delivering high-quality projects using the latest tech stack. A keen eye for detail, along with a passion to deliver quality, customer-focused solutions is absolutely essential.

Championing Web Development: You will be responsible for handling web development from ideation to production.

Collaboration with product manager and other developers, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.

Contribute best-in-class programming skills to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing web products.

Desired Profile

Great skills in PHP MVC frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter, etc.

Extensive Experience in API integration and development is required.

Experience in jQuery and AJAX.

Working knowledge of web technologies including HTML, and CSS is required.

Basic understanding of version control systems like Git and SVN.

Experience working with AWS or any other Linux Cloud Servers is a huge plus.

Passionate about writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code.

Strong analytical and debugging skills and experience building consumer systems at scale.