Senior Technical Lead Manager at LiveRamp · Hyderabad

Senior Technical Lead Manager
Location: Hyderabad
LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners.
Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.

Senior Technical Lead Manager (Engineering)
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead Manager to own a new squad within the engineering organization in Hyderabad. This is a role that combines people and program leadership with sustained, hands-on technical contribution. The person in this role will report directly to the VP of Engineering, carry the scope of ownership and be expected to stay deeper in the code and architecture than a typical manager at this level — writing code, reviewing designs, and actively using AI-assisted development workflows alongside the team, not just directing them.
What You'll Do
Lead hands-on: Personally contribute to system design, code reviews, and complex implementation work in Java/Spring-based microservices — this is not a purely managerial role.
Own squad delivery: Establish operational objectives, work plans, and delegation of assignments; manage the squad's roadmap, budget, and delivery commitments end-to-end.
Drive technical strategy: Tackle ambiguous, cross-cutting problems using deep organizational and architectural knowledge; translate broader engineering strategy into concrete, executable plans for the squad.
Champion AI-powered development: Bring hands-on fluency with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) into daily engineering practice, and help the team adopt AI-assisted workflows to raise velocity and code quality.
Manage and grow people: Hire, mentor, and manage engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and performance reviews; build a high-performing, engaged team.
Own quality and reliability: Improve release quality through code, design, and automation review practices; own production stability, incident response, and performance/cost optimization for services in the squad.
Partner cross-functionally: Work closely with product, other engineering pods, and enterprise stakeholders to finalize requirements, roadmaps, and integration plans; represent the squad in cross-group planning.
Report and escalate: Provide the VP of Engineering with visibility into progress, risks, and resourcing needs; make judgment calls on unforeseen issues without waiting for direction.
Must-Have Skills & Experience
14+ years of overall engineering experience, including a proven track record of designing and building scalable backend systems and distributed services in high-performance, production environments.
Strong hands-on expertise in Java (Spring / Spring Boot) and microservices architecture — must be able to actively code, debug, and review design/code at a senior IC level, not only through delegation.
Working knowledge of AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and a demonstrated ability to integrate them into day-to-day engineering workflows.
Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including a solid understanding of trade-offs at scale.
Familiarity with containerization and infra-as-code — Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform or equivalent — and modern CI/CD practices.
Proven people leadership — prior experience managing engineering teams (including other managers/leads), running hiring, mentoring, and performance review cycles.
Track record owning budget and cross-group commitments for a department or program, with accountability for results that affect the broader function.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience partnering with product, sales/enterprise, and other engineering groups.
Nice to Have
Experience with data platforms such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, or Databricks.
Exposure to Go or Python in addition to Java.
Experience integrating third-party systems in support of enterprise sales/customer commitments.
Background in supply chain, logistics, or B2B SaaS domains.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Benefits:
Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, accident, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth, and more. Your medical benefits extend to your dependents including parents.
More about us:
LiveRamp’s mission is to connect data in ways that matter, and doing so starts with our people. We know that inspired teams enlist people from a blend of backgrounds and experiences. And we know that individuals do their best when they not only bring their full selves to work but feel like they truly belong. Connecting LiveRampers to new ideas and one another is one of our guiding principles—one that informs how we hire, train, and grow our global team across nine countries and four continents. Click here to learn more about Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp.
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