Senior Program Manager

Job Description

Senior Program Manager

Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Job Summary

HCLTech is looking for an Engineering Mindset Leader to drive Application Development and Transformation-led delivery for the Informa account. This role owns engineering culture, technical governance, and delivery quality across a portfolio that spans multiple Informa business divisions - bringing engineering consistency and rigor to a technology landscape shaped by years of organic growth and acquisition, while partnering closely with Informas technology and transformation leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Mindset & Culture

• Champion a quality-first, automation-first engineering culture across pods working on different Informa business units.
• Institutionalize consistent coding, review, and design standards despite a heterogeneous, multi-stack estate.
• Drive DevSecOps adoption - CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and shift-left security - as a common baseline across divisions.
• Instill a data- and platform-first engineering discipline suited to subscription, content, and B2B SaaS products.

Delivery Leadership & Technical Governance

• Own end-to-end technical delivery for Informas AD/Transformation workstreams across multiple business divisions.
• Set up architecture governance - design reviews, standards, and NFR sign-off - that scales across diverse tech stacks.
• Drive platform rationalization and cloud migration, reducing technology sprawl from prior acquisitions.
• Build reusable engineering frameworks and accelerators applicable across business units.
• Track and report engineering health metrics (velocity, defect leakage, deployment frequency, MTTR) to account leadership.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary engineering counterpart to Informas technology and transformation leadership.
• Translate divisional transformation priorities into a coherent, account-wide engineering roadmap.
• Represent HCLTech in technical governance forums, steering committees, and architecture councils.
• Build trusted-advisor relationships that expand HCLTechs engineering footprint across Informas divisions.
• Lead delivery from an offshore location, ensuring seamless collaboration with onshore/client stakeholders through structured governance, overlap hours, and communication cadences.

Team Building, Coaching & Talent

• Build, mentor, and retain engineering pods aligned to each supported business division.
• Define skilling plans and technical career paths across a broad, multi-technology environment.
• Foster ownership, continuous learning, and engineering craftsmanship across distributed teams.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Drive adoption of platform engineering, data engineering, and GenAI-assisted SDLC practices.
• Lead pilots for tooling and accelerators that support M&A-driven platform integration.

Contribute learnings back into HCLTechs engineering Centre of Excellence

Skill Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• 16-20 years in IT with substantial experience in Application Development / Digital Transformation delivery.
• Proven track record leading engineering teams of 20+ engineers across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Strong hands-on engineering background across modern web/backend stacks (Java, .NET, Node.js, or similar).
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), microservices architecture, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience integrating or rationalizing diverse technology stacks, ideally following M&A activity.
• Working knowledge of data platforms - SQL/NoSQL databases, ETL/ELT pipelines - for subscription and content products.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across distributed, global business units.
• Solid grounding in Agile/Scaled Agile delivery models.
• Proven track record successfully leading offshore delivery pods for global/onshore clients, with strong asynchronous communication and governance discipline.

Preferred / Good to Have

• Prior experience in publishing, B2B information services, events/exhibitions, or subscription-based digital products.
• Exposure to CMS, subscription/e-commerce platforms, or event-technology platforms.
• Experience supporting technology integration following mergers or acquisitions.
• Relevant certifications - cloud architect (AWS/Azure), TOGAF, SAFe, or equivalent.
• Exposure to AI/ML-assisted engineering productivity tools.
• Experience in a global delivery / GCC (Global Capability Center) model, with prior offshore leadership for UK/EU/global clients.

What Success Looks Like (First 6-12 Months)

• A common engineering baseline (standards, tooling, governance) adopted across previously siloed business units.
• Measurable reduction in technology sprawl and measurable improvement in delivery/quality metrics.
• Recognized by Informa stakeholders as a credible, account-wide engineering thought leader.
• A stable, motivated, and upskilled engineering organization with a visible succession pipeline.

Other Requirements

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Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, youll supercharge your potential. Youll find your career. And youll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 230,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.