Company Summary
First American (India) is a GCC (Global Capability Center) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies. FAI is a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and has been amongst the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eight consecutive years. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office, and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First American's business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers, and shareholders - in that order. First American (India) has been ranked amongst India's Best Companies To Work For™ 2023: Listed amongst the Top 100 by Great Place To Work® India, FAI is also certified Best Workplaces for Women and Workplace with Inclusive Practices. Software Services helps build First American's product suite that encompasses the best in class Title Insurance, Settlement and Mortgage solutions platforms. Leverages technology product stack across Microsoft platform predominantly to develop, enhance and maintain the best in class applications. The R & D division delivers solutions for the title insurance industry leveraging the best of NLP, AI and ML.Job Summary
Engineering Manager – FA Trust
Location: India (Hybrid)
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead engineering delivery from India across a portfolio of third-party product integrations, internally built platforms, and emerging agentic AI capabilities. This role combines people leadership, technical direction, and execution ownership in a global engineering environment.
The ideal candidate brings strong experience leading engineering teams, delivering cloud-native and integration-heavy solutions, and adopting AI-assisted engineering practices to improve product development and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership and Delivery
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of 10+ engineers.
- Drive execution across multiple workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery.
- Foster a culture of accountability, engineering quality, and continuous improvement.
Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership across architecture, design, and delivery of cloud-native applications and integration services.
- Act as an escalation point for complex challenges involving integrations, identity, architecture, and platform reliability.
- Partner with engineers on solution design, technical trade-offs, and implementation decisions.
- Support strategic engineering priorities including platform simplification, cost optimization, AI-assisted engineering, and development of agentic AI capabilities.
Cross-Functional and Global Collaboration
- Align with engineering and business leadership on priorities, roadmaps, and execution plans.
- Collaborate closely with FA Trust product teams and partner teams across India and the US.
- Ensure clear communication, dependency management, and execution across distributed teams.
- Support enterprise initiatives related to modernization, security, and platform standardization.
Governance and Operational Excellence
- Ensure adherence to enterprise architecture standards, security controls, and compliance requirements.
- Drive improvements in availability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Promote disciplined engineering practices across delivery and operations.
Agentic Product Development (desirable)
- Support adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the team.
- Identify practical use cases for agentic AI and AI-enabled workflows in engineering and product delivery.
- Guide teams in designing, integrating, and operating agentic capabilities within products and internal platforms where appropriate.
Required Qualifications
- 14+ years of software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager or Technical Manager role.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams in complex delivery environments.
- Strong background in architecture and design of cloud-native applications and enterprise integration solutions.
- Hands-on experience building cloud-native applications on Azure using Python.
- Strong knowledge of Azure services including Kubernetes, Azure Functions, and API Management.
- Experience in designing and building REST APIs, webhooks, and service integrations.
- Strong RDBMS experience, including schema design and query development in PostgreSQL, MS SQL, or similar databases.
- Solid understanding of API design, integration patterns, enterprise architecture, security, scalability, observability, and performance engineering.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
- Experience working with global teams in a matrixed organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering large-scale integration programs.
- Exposure to API governance, security controls, and platform cost optimization.
- Experience working closely with US-based engineering leadership.
- Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native delivery practices.
- Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools and agentic AI development.
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills.
Target Technology Stack
- Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure
- Languages: Python
- Compute and Application Runtime: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Functions
- API and Integration: REST APIs, webhooks, API Management, and enterprise integration patterns
- Architecture and Operations: Cloud-native architecture, observability, reliability, security, scalability, and performance engineering
- AI-Assisted Engineering Tools (desirable): Exposure to modern AI coding assistants and coding agents such as Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex.
- Agentic AI Development Patterns (desirable): Exposure to tool orchestration, plan-and-execute workflows, human-in-the-loop review, context-aware agents, multi-step task execution, and production guardrails such as observability, tracing, and sandboxing