Delivery Manager - Engineering
- Location
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Salary
- $0 – $0 / year
About the job
What You'll Do
About the Role We are seeking a seasoned Senior Consultant - Delivery Engineering Manager to lead our engineering teams within the Benefits & Protection - Business Owner Solutions IT Platform organization. This is an outstanding opportunity to advance engineering excellence, technology modernization, and pivotal initiatives across business-critical platforms.
Responsibilities Delivery & Execution Leadership
• Lead multiple cross-functional engineering teams delivering business-critical technology solutions.
- Lead multiple cross-functional engineering teams delivering business-critical technology solutions.
- Drive the implementation of central initiatives, product roadmaps, modernization programs, and operational excellence objectives.
- Establish delivery governance, planning, prioritization, dependency management, release management, and risk mitigation practices.
- Ensure predictable delivery outcomes aligned with business commitments and organizational goals.
- Handle production support, operational health, service reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide engineering leadership and technology oversight for assigned product and platform teams.
- Provide engineering leadership and technology oversight for assigned product and platform teams.
- Partner with architects and engineering leads to define and complete technology strategy and modernization initiatives.
- Drive engineering excellence through established guidelines, automation, quality engineering, DevOps, security, and operational resiliency.
- Support technical decision-making, architectural alignment, technical debt reduction, and platform simplification efforts.
- Encourage an environment that values creativity, ongoing education, excellence, and responsibility.
• Lead the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices to boost development efficiency, delivery velocity, quality, and operational performance.
- Lead the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices to boost development efficiency, delivery velocity, quality, and operational performance.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and implement solutions powered by artificial intelligence that build measurable business impact.
- Promote responsible use of AI technologies, ensuring compliance, security, governance, and risk management standards.
- Drive innovation culture through experimentation, proof-of-concepts, hackathons, and emerging technology adoption.
• Establish and drive engineering efficiency and operational excellence metrics across teams.
- Establish and drive engineering efficiency and operational excellence metrics across teams.
- Apply Developer Experience (DX) and Engineering Excellence frameworks to increase developer efficiency, system reliability, quality, and delivery predictability.
- Leverage engineering insights and platform metrics to identify bottlenecks, improve value stream flow, and increase team efficiency.
- Drive adoption of data-driven decision making using engineering, delivery, quality, and operational benchmarks.
- Promote automation-first approaches to reduce manual effort, improve scalability, and accelerate time-to-market.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent across multiple teams.
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent across multiple teams.
- Drive employee engagement, retention, succession planning, and leadership development initiatives.
- Build high-performing, inclusive teams passionate about collaboration, innovation, and customer outcomes.
- Assist with recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning, and talent acquisition efforts.
• Own performance management processes including goal setting, development planning, talent assessments, and appraisal cycles.
- Own performance management processes including goal setting, development planning, talent assessments, and appraisal cycles.
- Conduct regular mentoring and career development discussions with team members.
- Identify growth opportunities and build development plans aligned with organizational needs.
- Recognize and reward performance while encouraging a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Product Managers, Architects, Business Leaders, Operations, and Enterprise collaborators.
- Provide regular updates on delivery status, risks, dependencies, and strategic priorities.
- Influence decisions through data-driven insights, technical expertise, and strong business sense.
- Align engineering projects with business goals and customer results.
Who You Are
Education & Experience
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10-14 years of technology industry experience with progressive responsibilities in software engineering, technology delivery, or engineering management.
- 3+ years of people leadership experience leading engineering teams.
- Experience leading multiple Agile delivery teams in a complex enterprise environment.
- Proven experience managing performance reviews, talent development, goal setting, and employee mentoring.
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams across multiple locations.
- Experience assisting with location strategy, workforce planning, and organizational growth initiatives.
- Experience presenting to senior leadership teams and portfolio governance forums.
- Experience managing large-scale transformation or organizational change programs.
- Solid grasp of Agile, Lean, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Developer Experience (DX) principles.
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Additional Information
What Makes You a Standout Candidate
- Thinks like an Engineering Leader and Technology Strategist, not a traditional project manager.
- Uses AI, automation, and engineering insights to accelerate delivery and improve outcomes.
- Drives measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, reliability, and business value.
- Makes data-driven decisions using engineering metrics, delivery benchmarks, and business outcomes.
- Balances technology strategy, engineering excellence, people leadership, and business priorities.
- Builds a culture of innovation, continuous learning, accountability, and operational excellence.
- Successfully translates technology investments into measurable customer and business impact.
From Principal Financial's careers page (Company careers page), checked 29 Oct 2026.
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Posted 23 Oct 2026 · checked 29 Oct 2026 · Report this job