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The Antal Lucknow office proudly claims to be the second-largest Antal operation in India, both in terms of revenue and manpower. Managed by Mayank Chandra, the office has exposure to working with international locations such as Romania, the Middle East, Africa and the ASEAN countries.

The +30 member-strong team comprises specialist recruiters who have graduated from reputed management and engineering institutes, and who have years of recruitment as well as corporate experience behind them, which results in an in-depth knowledge of the disciplines they cover. Consequently, Antal Lucknow has helped professionals find their fit in fields such as Pharmaceuticals/ Medical Devices; Tech-Startups & Engineering.

Antal Lucknow’s clients include MNCs and large Indian conglomerates. The office is equipped to work on retainer, exclusive and contingent assignments and the process mainly includes mapping, headhunting and web-based searches.

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Mayank Chandra

 

Mayank Chandra is the Managing Partner of Antal’s Lucknow office, bringing over two decades of experience in recruitment, business development, and talent advisory. An alumnus of Goa Institute of Management, he began his career in marketing and later moved into the recruitment industry, where he has built deep expertise in executive search and leadership hiring.

Under his leadership, the Antal Lucknow office has grown into one of the largest Antal operations in India, with a team of specialist recruiters serving both multinational corporations and leading Indian companies. The office works across industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, technology startups, engineering, and consumer sectors, supporting mid-to-senior level hiring mandates across India and international markets.

Known for his consultative approach and strong industry network, Mayank works closely with organizations to identify high-impact talent while helping businesses build leadership teams that drive long-term growth.

 

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Mayank Chandra
Mayank Chandra
Managing Partner
Anjali Chandra
Anjali Chandra
Partner
Gopal Kapoor
Gopal Kapoor
Director- Business Development
Kavita Sahanee
Kavita Sahanee
Associate Director- Technology and Product
Greeta Goel
Greeta Goel
Associate Director- Strategy
Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma
Associate Director – Sales & Marketing
Harshal Nath
Harshal Nath
Associate Director- Corporate roles
Parul Singh
Parul Singh
Associate Director – Healthcare & Life sciences
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Identify delivery risks, bottlenecks, dependency challenges, and organisational impediments. Establish standard operating procedures, governance controls, and best practices for execution. Partner with Engineering Directors to improve release predictability, quality, and delivery performance. Champion AI-native ways of working and continuous optimisation across the software development lifecycle. Strategy & Portfolio Management Partner with the Head of Engineering to define and execute the Engineering strategy and annual operating plan. Facilitate prioritisation, capacity planning, and demand management across engineering portfolio. Manage strategic staffing and technology partners, ensuring workforce quality, cost effectiveness and alignment with capability needs. Establish portfolio governance processes, review forums, and decision-making mechanisms within the engineering organization. Track strategic initiatives, OKRs, milestones, dependencies, risks, and outcomes across the engineering organisation. Provide executive-level reporting and insights to leadership stakeholders. People Strategy & Organisation Development Define workforce planning strategy aligned with TechHub growth objectives. Partner with Talent Acquisition on hiring plans, workforce mix, and critical capability acquisition. Drive organisation design, succession planning, leadership development, and talent reviews. Establish onboarding, career progression, mentoring, and internal mobility frameworks. Partner with Engineering Directors to improve engineering culture, engagement, retention, and organisational effectiveness. Track and report people-related metrics, including hiring velocity, attrition, organisational health, and capability maturity. 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Define and drive technical architecture, design patterns, coding standards, and engineering best practices. Translate business and product requirements into robust technical solutions. Conduct architecture and design reviews and provide guidance on technology selection and implementation approaches. Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability challenges, and performance bottlenecks and drive their resolution. Contribute to modernization initiatives, including monolith-to-microservices transformation and cloud adoption, particularly on AWS. Software Development Design, develop, and review high-quality, scalable applications using Java and Spring Boot. Develop and maintain RESTful APIs, Microservices, and distributed systems. Write clean, maintainable, testable, and efficient code. Perform detailed code reviews and ensure adherence to engineering and security standards. Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root-cause analysis and permanent resolution. Optimize application performance, reliability, scalability, and resource utilization. Deployment, AWS & Production Support Own or contribute hands-on to application deployment across development, testing, staging, and production environments. Manage production releases, deployment validation, rollback planning, and release-related troubleshooting. Design, deploy, and support applications on AWS; understand relevant AWS services and cloud deployment patterns. Work with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, monitoring, logging, and deployment automation. Ensure deployments meet reliability, security, scalability, and availability requirements. Team Leadership & Mentoring Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, providing technical direction and guidance. Conduct regular design/code reviews and promote engineering best practices across the team. Support team members in solving complex technical problems and developing their technical capabilities. \ Participate in technical interviews and contribute to hiring and team-building initiatives. Promote a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Delivery & Collaboration Work closely with Product, QA, DevOps, Architecture, and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of projects. Break down complex requirements into technical tasks and provide effort and implementation estimates. Own technical deliverables and ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines and quality standards. Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Communicate technical decisions, project risks, deployment readiness, and progress effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Required Technical Skills 12+ years of overall experience, with strong hands-on expertise in Java-based software development. Strong proficiency in Core Java, Java 8/11/17+, OOP, Collections, Multithreading, Concurrency, and JVM concepts. Strong hands-on experience with Spring Framework / Spring Boot. Extensive experience developing Microservices and RESTful APIs. Strong understanding of Distributed Systems, System Design, and Design Patterns. Hands-on experience deploying applications and supporting releases across environments. Mandatory hands-on experience with AWS, including deploying, operating, or supporting applications on AWS cloud services. Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. Good understanding of SQL, database design, indexing, and query optimization. Experience with messaging/event-driven technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar. Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred. Good understanding of CI/CD, Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab, and DevOps practices. Strong understanding of unit testing, integration testing, TDD/BDD, and automated testing practices. Experience with application performance monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and production support. Leadership & Soft Skills Proven experience in technical leadership and mentoring engineering teams. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Excellent understanding of software engineering principles and best practices. Ability to make sound technical decisions and take ownership of complex problems. Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills. Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Strong focus on quality, scalability, security, and engineering excellence. Good to Have Knowledge of Node.js and experience working with Node.js-based services or applications. Experience with cloud-native application development and AWS services beyond basic deployment. Knowledge of React, Angular, or other modern frontend technologies. Experience with Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, or similar technologies. Exposure to AI/ML integrations or GenAI-based applications. Experience with high-scale, high-availability systems. Experience driving technology modernization, platform engineering, or large-scale application transformation. What We’re Looking For We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who can independently drive complex engineering initiatives, make architecture and design decisions, mentor engineers, and work closely with business and product stakeholders. The ideal candidate should be technically strong, architecture-oriented, delivery-focused, comfortable with AWS-based application deployment, and able to take end-to-end ownership of critical applications and engineering initiatives.

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