Delivery Manager - Engineering

As a leader at Principal, you’re responsible for activating our strategy, meeting evolving customer needs, and crafting an inclusive culture. Our leadership expectations serve as a guide to the standards encouraged from all our leaders. Our leaders need to be a positive brand ambassador of our core values and purpose. They need to understand our code of conduct and know the responsibility to comply. They stay respectful of diversity and differences and work towards building inclusive teams and partnerships.

What You'll do

In the role of Delivery Manager - Engineering at Principal Financial Group, you will be working hand-in-hand with our product development team, you will interpret user needs and transform them into clear technical specifications. Making sure our software products remain scalable, stable, and efficient will be critical for your success. Coordinate, direct, and finalize projects/initiatives according to business objectives. Lead one or more engineering teams to achieve remarkable value for the business.

You'll have opportunity to:

Plan, Manage and deliver the project as per contractual agreement.

% of Time Spent

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

40

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

30

People Management

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

7. Employee Satisfaction

8. Mentoring team members

9. Handling appraisals and feedback

20

10

Direct Reports:Consultants, Associate Consultants and Trainees

Who You Are

Education:Graduate – Bachelor’s degree (Engineering) or Masters in Computers or relevant

Experience:10 to 13 years of IT application development experience with 1 or 2 years in Delivery Management is recommended.

Skill:

Must Have: Java, Springboot

Strong estimations skills, excellent people management skills, strong risk management skills, adequate technical knowledge and problem solving, crisp communication and time management skills required. Must have good interpersonal and excellent customer service skills.

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:Portfolio Manager (Principal Consultant)