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Sr Mgr-Software Development

Verizon

Software Engineering

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Posted on May 14, 2025

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When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing...

You will be working in cutting-edge technologies and driving the RAN/Core network performance systems to the next level in its journey to the North Star architecture.

Leading development teams in service assurance and assuming responsibility for delivery of business programs in Wireline and Wireless Network OSS teams.
Experience on Network Domain.
Owning the program delivery and working closely with the onshore manager and the teams (India and US). Including performing technical work directly and guiding the team on architecture, design, and on-the-job challenges.
Defining, measuring, and driving teams to achieve KPIs.
Leading and driving teams towards transformation in Agile-SAFe, DevSecOps, ODM, and Cloud.
Creating superior employee experience: Creating scalable practices that would help maintain a high level of engagement with team members on a regular basis and ensuring that there is a constant connect.
Identifying areas of opportunities and driving efficiencies in existing teams.
Engaging with employees on a regular basis by having a structure and schedule for employee engagement activities.
Representing project and programs in internal and external forums clearly articulating on the value creation and significance of the deliverables.
Representing projects/programs internally and externally, you will articulate their value. You will also work directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and deliver solutions.
Influencing and obtaining buy-in from external and internal stakeholders by effectively balancing the social system.
Performing strategic roles both on technology and strategic management.
Driving a culture of innovation: Championing a culture of innovation and drive.
Encouraging the team to participate in experimentation, hackathons, coding events, and other Organization-wide events and efforts.
Managing vendors on the ARTs or Non ART programs/domain teams.
Managing and tracking budgets and financials.

What we’re looking for...

This role mandates continuous innovation and broad technical skills, adept with knowledge and getting in depth understanding of business priorities, market insights and technology changes in the industry. You should be able to create, lead, shape and execute programs and initiatives to improve people skills, process optimization and modern technology adoption to create higher value for the business.

You’ll need to have:

Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
Six or more years of relevant work experience.
Experience in Telecom Network Domain and Network OSS solutions.
Knowledge of Telecom Network domain working.
Experience in software development and managerial role.
Four or more years of experience in driving large scale projects/programs.
Experience in Agile (SAFe/Scrum) delivery management.
Experience as a people leader and mentor, including the ability to maintain a high level of engagement with team members.
Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

Master’s degree in Engineering.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience in Java full stack.
Experience in ReactJS and NodeJS.
Experience in JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, databases (PostGres/MySQL/Oracle)
Knowledge of AWS, K8S, and SOE/SRE.
Experience in managing large-scale core development projects from scratch, handling requirements, design, and the deliveries.
Experience in Agile (SAFe/Scrum) delivery management.
Strong people leader and mentor experience, including the ability to maintain a high level of engagement with team members.

Where you'll be working...
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.