Technical Architect

Technical Project Manager.

Run delivery for 15–25 backend, frontend, and AI engineers building construction

tech and CAD drawing-automation software — with structural engineers on one

side of you and the codebase on the other.

FULL-TIME

MANAGER · 7+ YRS

Engineering — Delivery & Program Management

TEAM YOU’LL RUN

15–25 engineers · Backend · Frontend · AI

LOCATION

India

EXPERIENCE

6–7 yrs min · 4+ yrs managing engineers

WORK MODE 

Hybrid

DOMAIN

ENGAGEMENT

AEC · CAD / BIM automation · Multi-tenant SaaS

About BuildTwin

BuildTwin is a multi-tenant SaaS platform that runs the day-to-day operations of construction

and infrastructure companies — their workforce, projects, commercials, and documents — on a

single system. Alongside it we build an AI drawing-automation platform that turns structured

element data into production-ready technical drawings and exports them to PDF and DXF.

Both products are built by a small, senior engineering group in India: backend engineers on an

AWS serverless platform, frontend engineers on Angular and React, and AI engineers working

on drawing generation and data extraction. Sitting next to them — not in another building, not

in another timezone — are the structural and detailing engineers who define what a correct

drawing actually is.

That adjacency is our biggest advantage and our hardest coordination problem. This role exists

to make it work.

 Role overview

We are hiring one Technical Project Manager to own delivery across our engineering teams in

Bengaluru. You will run 15–25 engineers across backend, frontend, and AI workstreams, and

you will be the person who turns requirements originating with our structural and detailing

engineers into scoped, sequenced, shipped software.

This is a technical role. You will not be handed a groomed backlog and asked to move cards

across it. You will sit in the design discussion and have a view on how and when — you will

push back on an approach that will not scale, ask why a trade-off was made, and know the

difference between a two-day change and a two-sprint one. You are not expected to write

production code. You are expected to read it, understand the system, and never be the least

informed person in a technical conversation you are chairing.

The centre of gravity of this job is the floor, not the calendar. Most of your day is

spent with the people building and the people specifying — closing the gap between what a

domain expert means and what an engineer can implement deterministically. Status

reporting is a by-product of doing that well, not the job itself.

What you’ll own.

 Delivery ownership

Own the end-to-end delivery plan for every active workstream — scope, sequence,

dependencies, capacity, and dates that actually hold.

Break large, ambiguous product intent into engineering-sized increments with explicit

acceptance criteria, agreed with the people who will build them.

Run the operating cadence: planning, standups, refinement, demos, and retrospectives that

change something the following week.

Maintain one honest view of status — on track, at risk, slipped, and why — visible to the

founders and to the team at the same time.

Manage cross-team dependencies between backend, frontend, AI, and drawing-automation

workstreams so no team idles waiting on another.

Surface risk early, quantify it, and arrive with options — never an escalation without a

proposal.

Protect the team from thrash: absorb changing priorities, re-plan properly, and say no or not

now when a plan cannot take more.

Drive releases to genuinely done — QA, UAT with domain experts, documentation, and post

release verification included.

Own and improve the delivery metrics that matter: cycle time, predictability of committed

scope, defect escape rate, and rework.

Run the release calendar across two products so neither becomes the permanent second

priority.

Technical partnership

Participate substantively in technical discussions on design, sequencing, and trade-offs —

and hold your own with senior engineers.

Understand the architecture well enough to reason about blast radius: what a schema

change touches, why a migration is risky, why an API contract must be agreed before two

teams start.

Challenge estimates that look wrong in either direction, and recognise when an estimate is

uncertain because the problem is still unclear.

Translate technical constraints into decisions leadership can act on, and business constraints

into direction engineers can act on.

Keep testing, observability, and debt-reduction work on the plan instead of losing to features

every single quarter.

Insist that decisions get written down — architecture choices, drawing rules, API contracts,

and the reasoning behind each.

Stay close to the artefacts: read the tickets, the design docs, the PR titles, and the incident

write-ups.

Chair technical discussions where the outcome is a decision with an owner and a date, not a

longer discussion.

Overview:

We are looking for a Principal Architect for a Private Equity backed, fast growing AI First Product Engineering Services firm.

This role will be a key member of the core leadership team of the firm.

He/ She will serve as a strategic technical leader, solution designer, and customer advisor. In this role, you will combine deep and broad-based technical expertise with strong business acumen to architect high-value solutions, lead pre-sales engagements, and mentor our practice/CoE team. You will work closely with customers to understand their business needs, translate them into scalable technical solutions, and guide delivery teams in successful implementation.

Responsibilities:

1. Solutioning & Pre-Sales

●     Engage with customers, understand their business context, and guide them through a discovery and design process leading to a proposed solution

●     Work with sales teams to develop winning proposals, RFP responses, and technical presentations.

●     Will need to take single point ownership of the pre sales process, including client interactions, proposal preparation, presentations, pricing etc

●     Drive proof-of-concepts as part of the pre sales process

●     Build frameworks for different kinds of proposals and presentations to bring in repeatability and efficiency in the process

●     Work closely with marketing to create content around Indexnine offerings, solutions, capabilities and case studies

2. Delivery

●     Provide technical oversight during project delivery, ensuring adherence to architectural principles, standards, and best practices and ensure the as-sold solution is realised

●     Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer stakeholders (CXO level and technical leads). Will need to engage with Customers through delivery as required

●     Create points of view on accounts to help mine and grow accounts.

3. Practice & CoE Development

●     Work closely with the labs. Contribute to the development of new products/ accelerators.

●     Mentor and coach engineers to enhance their technical and customer engagement skills.

4. Thought leadership

●     Keep abreast of technology and produce points of view for Indexnine’s offerings and technical capabilities

●     Represent the company at industry forums, webinars, and client workshops.

●     Be able to independently conduct discovery and solutioning workshops with Customers

Skills/Qualifications:

●     15+ years of overall experience with a blend of architecting, pre sales and technical delivery

●     Should be leading a pre-sales unit in a services organization. Hands-on with designing solutions, proposal writing, estimation, pricing and customer presentations.

●     Broad based technical expertise and having played a Sr Architect role for at least 2 years

●     Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.

●     Experience working in an IT services environment in the Product Engineering space (i.e designing and building bespoke products/solutions)

●     BE/ Masters degree

ROLE SUMMARY:

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting people, technical processes, and engineering execution to ensure projects are delivered as per scope, budget, and timelines.

This role includes developing detailed project plans and comprehensive technical documentation, managing project Engineers and their availability, measuring engineering performance, tracking progress, and communicating project status to clients and internal stakeholders. You will work directly with Solutions Architects, Tech Leads, and Engineering teams to evaluate technical trade-offs, drive system design feasibility, and unblock engineering bottlenecks.

You will be a reliable and crucial team member who can anticipate client needs and translate complex technical requirements into actionable project milestones.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be the point of contact for all stakeholders from initiation to closure and will be responsible for leading the technical delivery team to achieve project objectives. You will work towards balancing technical constraints, technical debt, and Engineer availability on the project. You will report project status to client and internal stakeholders, escalate technical and operational issues as needed, and perform risk management to identify and mitigate architectural and delivery risks while maintaining strong advocacy within your spheres of influence.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Technical Project Manager with 7+ years experience: Including minimum 3 years of IT (Mobile/Web) project management experience and a prior background as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, or Developer.

Strong expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

Must have handled end-to-end SDLC projects as a Technical Project Manager or Scrum Master.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE?

Handle a portfolio of technical projects and clients in parallel and across geographies.

Develop an execution plan for projects, release schedules, CI/CD milestones, and team allocation.

Partner with technical leads to review high-level system designs, break down complex requirements into epics and user stories, and challenge technical estimates effectively.

Maintain strong relationships with product delivery, engineering leads, sales teams, clients, and account managers.

Expertise in project estimation, planning, tracking, scope control, technical risk and issues management, as well as engineering status reporting.

GOOD TO HAVE:

Hands-on or architecture exposure to.NET/Java/AWS/Azure or microservices architectures.

PMP / PMI-ACP / CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) certification.

Jira/Confluence project management tools expertise, Git workflows, and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

COMPETENCIES:

Strong commitment to professional client service and engineering excellence.

Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation), persuasive, and negotiating skills—with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Encourage, motivate, and mentor team members on agile practices and technical ownership.

Proactive can-do and technical problem-solving approach to the job.

Regards

Understand client business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Conduct requirement gathering, analysis, solution design, and technical documentation.

Work closely with development, QA, infrastructure, and business teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Provide technical guidance and recommend suitable technologies, architectures, and solutions.

Participate in system integration, implementation, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting.

Analyze existing systems and identify opportunities for optimization and improvement.

Prepare technical specifications, solution documents, architecture diagrams, and project documentation.

Act as a technical point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders.

Identify technical risks, dependencies, and challenges and provide appropriate solutions.

Support pre-sales activities, including technical discussions, solution presentations, and proposal preparation when required.

Stay updated with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.