Senior Delivery Manager - Engineering

Responsibilities

About the Role

As a Senior Delivery Manager \- Engineering at Principal, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating and driving the successful delivery of multiple portfolios and programs. This is an outstanding opportunity to lead high\-impact initiatives, ensuring that our engineering teams deliver outstanding results aligned with our strategic goals. You will work in a dynamic environment that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Delivery \& Program Execution

• Own and drive end\-to\-end delivery accountability across multiple portfolios/programs
• Ensure timely, high\-quality, and predictable execution aligned to business priorities
• Establish scalable delivery frameworks, governance models, and execution rigor
• Proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks

Collaborator \& Business Management

• Serve as the main interface for senior business and technology collaborators
• Drive transparent communication, expectation management, and decision\-making
• Align delivery outcomes with business value, customer experience, and strategic goals
• Influence multi\-departmental teams to ensure enterprise\-wide alignment

Technical Leadership \& Enablement

• Solid grasp of contemporary engineering environments to develop teams on technical direction
• Provide oversight and direction across key technology areas:

DevOps \& Platform Engineering

Cloud (AWS)

Application Development (Java, Python programming)

AI/ML and emerging LLM capabilities* Partner with architects and engineering leads to ensure scalable, resilient, and future\-ready solutions

Engineering Experience \& Modernization

• Drive initiatives that improve developer efficiency, toolchain optimization, and platform adoption
• Promote and apply contemporary engineering methods (CI/CD, automation, SRE principles, AI\-assisted development)
• Lead technology modernization and rationalization efforts

Metrics, Governance \& Continuous Improvement

• Define and track benchmarks and objectives and key results aligned to delivery, quality, velocity, and customer outcomes
• Drive a data\-driven culture with actionable insights and performance transparency
• Institutionalize continuous improvement (CI) practices across teams
• Ensure consistency with operating models, governance standards, and compliance requirements

Leadership \& People Development

• Demonstrate strong servant leadership and ownership approach
• Build and mentor high\-performing teams and delivery leaders
• Encourage an environment of responsibility, cooperation, and creativity
• Lead through influence, clarity, and dedicated execution

Qualifications

Required Skills \& Qualifications

\- Education: Bachelor’s or equivalent experience, or Master’s degree \- B.E. / B.Tech / M.S. / M.Tech / MCA in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related subject area.

Experience:* 12–18\+ years of overall experience in technology delivery, with: 8\+ years in delivery/program management roles

Demonstrated ability in handling large\-scale, complex, multi\-team programs

Demonstrated success in Engineering Enablement / Platform / Developer Experience initiatives

Experience working in global delivery models with cross\-geography collaborators

Technical \& Domain Expertise:* Solid knowledge of: Cloud platforms (AWS preferred)

• DevOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, automation systems
• Application creation using Java, Python, APIs, and microservices
• Exposure to AI/ML, GenAI, and language model\-based use cases in SDLC or enterprise platforms
• Familiarity with platform engineering, SRE practices, and toolchain optimization
• Ability to guide technical direction (not hands\-on coding, but informed decision\-making)