Delivery Manager - Engineering

Responsibilities Delivery Management Planning and estimation, scheduling, task allocation, monitoring & control, reviews Build engineering culture principles within the team.
Demonstrate complete understanding & ownership of the product. Enable and facilitate adoption of required skills based on the product needs for self and team. Create forums or gather data for team to gain customer perspective. Relationship Management and Partner Satisfaction Establish and continually improve project management and execution processes including Risk Management, communication, defect management & prevention Status reporting, metrics generation & analysis Technology and Domain Provide domain and technical leadership, Knowledge Management Ability to adapt to changing technology landscape Build product acumen based on functional area Practice/Implement Design thinking approach Lead, design and communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team and get buy-in Quickly break down complex problems into potential solutions, knowns, and unknowns, in order to get to solid resolutions faster. Able to recognize and make trade-offs with respect to the whole system. Capable of debugging the most complex problems that the team encounters. Anticipate technical issues at the product level and make architectural and design decisions to avoid them People Management Staffing, onboarding, Skill building, Back-up Planning Employee Satisfaction Mentoring and coaching team members Handling appraisals and feedback Contribution to organizational activities Contribute to organizational initiatives and activities that would benefit from knowledge/skills possessed by the individual as well as help the individual grow in terms of area of influence & potential partnership needed beyond the business unit. Qualifications Dimensions: Will usually have 8-20 direct reports and will be responsible for their personnel management Can handle projects where various types of skill sets (technology) is used as well as distributed teams. Reporting Relationship: This position reports to: Program Manager (Principal Consultant) Direct Reports: Consultants, Associate Consultants and Trainees Know-How/Skill Sets: Education: Graduate Bachelor s degree (any stream). Experience: 11+ years of IT experience with 1 or 2 years in delivery management is recommended. Experience is not a constraint for the right candidate. Skills: Proven experience as an IT professional. Ability to obtain certification(s) in an IT related field is a plus. Basic knowledge of insurance and financial services products preferred. Knowledge of business unit applications preferred. Advanced planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills required. Proficiency with database applications, knowledge of mainframe, distributed and/or web programming language, cloud, DevOps, modern engineering techniques Strong knowledge of OOPs concept and have worked extensively in languages like Java, typescript etc Knowledge in AWS cloud native services and DR strategies is good to have. Strong leadership and presentation skills required. Must be able to maintain a high degree of accuracy and confidentiality. Must have the desire to learn new technology and continuously grow. Ability to work on cross-functional teams and collaborate with both It and non-IT partners.