Responsibilities:
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 projects/initiatives as per business objectives. Lead 1-2 engineering teams, including IT, operations and business domain to deliver value to the business.
Essential Functions
% of Time Spent
Delivery Management
1. Planning and estimation, scheduling, task allocation, monitoring & control, reviews
2. 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.
3. Relationship Management and Partner Satisfaction
4. Establish and continually improve project management and execution processes including Risk Management, communication, defect management & prevention
5. Status reporting, metrics generation & analysis
40
Technology and Domain
1. Provide domain and technical leadership, Knowledge Management
2. Ability to adapt to changing technology landscape
3. Build product acumen based on functional area
4. Practice/Implement Design thinking approach
5. Lead, design and communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to the technical team and get buy-in
6. 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.
7. Capable of debugging the most complex problems that the team encounters.
8. Anticipate technical issues at the product level and make architectural and design decisions to avoid them
30
People Management
1. Staffing, onboarding, Skill building, Back-up Planning
2. Employee Satisfaction
3. Mentoring and coaching team members
4. Handling appraisals and feedback
20
Contribution to organizational activities
1. 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.
10
Qualifications:
Who You Are
Education: Graduate – Bachelor’s degree (Engineering) or Masters
Experience: 10 to 13 years of IT experience with 1 or 2 years in delivery management is recommended.
Skill:
Must Have: Java, Cloud Technologies, Software Engineering Practices, security and "vulnerability management"
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:
This role will usually have 8-20 direct reports. To 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: Consultants, Lead Engineers, Sr. Developers, Developers and Trainees
Additional Information:
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.
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