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 one or more engineering teams to deliver value to the business.

- The role requires leading delivery of key initiatives which has extensive application of engineering skills, knowledge of distributed systems, Tech stack inclusive of AWS compute services, Java/JEE, CI/CD and DevOps practices, scalable architectures, and cloud-native design patterns.

Essential Functions :

Delivery Management :

- Planning and estimation, scheduling, task allocation, monitoring & control, reviews

- 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.

Relationship Management and Partner Satisfaction :

- Establish and continually improve project management and execution processes including Risk Management, communication, defect management & prevention

- Status reporting, metrics generation & analysis

- Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, SMEs and other stakeholders to ensure teams have clear understanding of goals and any challenges are addressed

Technology and Domain :

- Provide domain and technical leadership, Knowledge Management

- Ability to adapt to changing technology landscape

- Build product acumen based on functional area

- Develop deep knowledge of the technical aspects of owned products to be able to influence technical decisions.

People Management :

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

- Employee Satisfaction

- Mentoring and coaching team members

- 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.

Qualifications :

Who You are :

Education : Graduate/Bachelors Engineering degree

Experience : 12 to 14 years of IT experience with 2+ years in delivery management & team management is recommended.

Skill :

- Strong engineering skills - specifically AWS compute services and Distributed systems would be preferred.

- Knowledge of Java, JEE systems with People/Team Management.

- Knowledge of JavaScript frameworks will be an added advantage.

- Certifications in AWS will be an added advantage.

- Prior experience as an engineer building distributed enterprise systems in Java, Typescript or other OOP languages will be required.

- Ability to navigate conflicting priorities and bring clarity and direction to teams when required.

- Prior experience leading engineering teams through modernization initiatives will be a plus.

- Basic knowledge of insurance and financial services products preferred.

- Knowledge of business unit applications preferred.

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

- Strong leadership and presentation skills required.

- Must be able to maintain a high degree of accuracy and confidentiality.

- Must have handled one performance cycle & have desire to learn new technology and continuously grow.

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

- Some travel may be required, including overnight stays.

- May be required to provide on-call support.

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.

- 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.