Principal Financial Services - Delivery Manager - Engineering

Delivery Manager - Engineering

Job Description :

Responsibilities :

Position Purpose :

- Plan, manage and deliver projects/initiatives as per business objectives. Lead 1-2 software engineering teams, from a perspective of technology and business domain to deliver & drive value across the portfolio (Investment Management).

- Help advance maturity across teams in terms of engineering best practices, automation & process improvement initiatives & building self-empowered teams.

- Strong Engineering mindset & Ability and willingness to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Essential Functions :

Delivery Management :

1. Planning and estimation, scheduling, task allocation, monitoring & control, reviews

2. Provide domain and technical leadership, Knowledge Management

3. Relationship Management and Partner Satisfaction,

Process improvement & adherence :

4. Establish and continually improve project management and execution processes including Risk Management,

Communication,defect management & prevention :

5. Status reporting, metrics generation & analysis

People Management :

6. Staffing, onboarding, Skill building, Back-up Planning

7. Employee Satisfaction

8. Mentoring team members

9. 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.

Detailed Roles & Responsibilities :

- Plan, Manage and provide technical leadership to Software Engineering teams. Should be a working leader with good hands-on technology (preferably Cloud/ Data/ Java)

- Build engineering culture principles within the team. Demonstrate complete understanding & ownership of the product & solution.

- Manage the daily activities of Agile Scrum teams. Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.

- Effective stakeholder management (across business & IT counterparts), ability to influence will be critical.

- Acquire good BU domain knowledge and facilitate the growth of domain knowledge (Investment

Management).

- Build a culture of innovation and enable the team to build future ready skills to drive efficiencies across teams.

- Conducts skills assessments, training, and initiatives to develop competencies.

- Advance adoption of execution best practices (e.g. AWS Cloud, DevOps, Agile, Lean etc.)

- Ability to work on cross-functional teams and collaborate with both IT and non-IT partners

- Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.

- Develop process improvements to achieve cost effectiveness and time saving

- Risk management & mitigation plans

- Status reporting, track project milestones, metrics generation, trends & analysis

- Research new IT developments. Stay current and engaged on industry trends. Consult with business partners on future technical trends/directions to meet business strategy initiatives.

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

Direct Reports : Software Engineers and Trainees

Qualifications :

Know-How/Skill Sets :

Education : Graduate Bachelors degree (any stream) .

Experience :

- 11+ years of IT application development experience with 3+ years as Project lead/Assistant Project Manager 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 financial services products preferred.

- Advanced planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills required.

- Proficiency with database applications, knowledge of programming languages (Java/Python), cloud

computing, DevOps, modern engineering techniques is desired.

- Strong leadership and presentation skills required.

- Must have the desire to learn new technology and continuously grow.

- Strong problem solving and analytical skills, excellent people management skills, strong risk management skills is required

- Excellent planning, organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills required.