BENGALURU · FULLTIME
DIRECTOR ENGINEERING - Account Management
Happiest Minds Technologies
Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 12d ago
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About this role
Senior Technical Delivery Manager
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 16–20 Years
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Delivery Manager to lead large-scale Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) engagements. The role requires a strong combination of technical expertise, Agile delivery leadership, client management, commercial acumen, engineering excellence, and people leadership.
The incumbent will be responsible for end-to-end delivery, building strategic client relationships, ensuring operational and engineering excellence, managing delivery financials, and driving continuous improvement and innovation across the engagement.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery & Program Management
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 16–20 Years
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Senior Technical Delivery Manager to lead large-scale Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) engagements. The role requires a strong combination of technical expertise, Agile delivery leadership, client management, commercial acumen, engineering excellence, and people leadership.
The incumbent will be responsible for end-to-end delivery, building strategic client relationships, ensuring operational and engineering excellence, managing delivery financials, and driving continuous improvement and innovation across the engagement.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery & Program Management
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale ADM engagements, ensuring adherence to scope, timelines, quality, SLAs, and business objectives.
- Establish and drive Agile delivery practices, governance, metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Manage delivery risks, dependencies, escalations, resource constraints, and operational challenges.
- Ensure effective transition, application maintenance, enhancements, production support, and continuous delivery.
- Drive engineering excellence through standardized processes, automation, quality practices, and modern development methodologies.
- Act as the primary client-facing delivery leader, managing relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Understand client priorities and translate business objectives into actionable delivery roadmaps.
- Lead governance meetings, performance reviews, escalations, and delivery discussions.
- Build trusted client relationships and identify opportunities to improve satisfaction and expand the engagement.
- Provide technical oversight across application development, modernization, integration, maintenance, and support activities.
- Promote best practices in software engineering, DevOps, automation, cloud, security, and quality engineering.
- Collaborate with architects and technical leads to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
- Drive adoption of emerging technologies and innovative approaches to improve productivity, quality, and delivery outcomes.
- Own engagement-level budgets, revenue, margins, utilization, forecasting, and resource planning.
- Manage project financials, estimation, staffing, capacity planning, and commercial commitments.
- Ensure delivery remains aligned with contractual obligations and approved scope.
- Identify opportunities for cost optimization, productivity improvement, and value realization.
- Lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams comprising Technical Leads, Developers, Architects, QA, DevOps, and Support professionals.
- Build a high-performance culture focused on accountability, collaboration, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.
- Drive workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, and capability building.
- Coach delivery and technical leaders to strengthen organizational capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to optimize ADM processes, delivery models, and operational practices.
- Drive automation, AI-assisted engineering, DevOps, and other modern delivery practices.
- Establish and monitor delivery KPIs, SLAs, productivity metrics, quality metrics, and customer satisfaction.
- Lead root-cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives across the engagement.
- 16–20 years of overall IT experience, with significant experience in Technical Delivery / Program Management.
- Strong experience managing large-scale ADM / Application Development & Maintenance engagements.
- Proven expertise in Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and modern software delivery practices.
- Strong technical understanding of software development, application modernization, integration, and production support.
- Demonstrated experience in client relationship and stakeholder management, including senior technology/business stakeholders.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience managing budgets, financials, utilization, resource planning, and delivery margins.
- Proven people leadership experience managing large, distributed technical teams.
- Strong communication, negotiation, problem-solving, and escalation-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to drive delivery excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Experience managing large and complex ADM engagements in an IT services environment.
- Exposure to Cloud, Microservices, APIs, DevOps, CI/CD, Automation, AI/GenAI, and modern engineering practices.
- Experience in application modernization and digital transformation programs.
- Agile certifications such as CSM, PSM, PMI-ACP, or equivalent.
- Experience in driving technology innovation, automation, and productivity improvement initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- Master's degree / MBA is preferred.
- Proven track record of successful delivery, client satisfaction, and team leadership.
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Skills
AutomationDevopsAgileScrumapisApplication ModernizationcloudMicroservicesSoftware DevelopmentIntegrationProduction SupportGenerative AiArtificial Intelligence
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About Happiest Minds Technologies
Happiest Minds Technologies
IT Services & Consulting
6.5k+
employees
2011
15 years old
Bangalore / Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
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A technology firm specializing in digital transformation services utilizing advanced technologies to enhance enterprise efficiency and customer experience.
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