Engineering Delivery Manager
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Progress PartnersSaaS and software
Location: European Union; Secondary Locations: Georgia, Ukraine, Serbia, Turkey, distributed across time zonesFull-TimeManager
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years in software delivery, technical/engineering delivery management, technical program management, or engineering leadership.
- Required Skills
- JiraGitHub
Requirements
- 7+ years in software delivery, technical or engineering delivery management, technical program management, or engineering leadership.
- Experience managing delivery across multiple external teams, vendors, or distributed partners.
- Experience overseeing delivery across engineering teams, vendors, or delivery groups of roughly 20–35 people.
- Strong grasp of software development lifecycles, agile delivery, estimation, release planning, QA workflows, and engineering team dynamics.
- Ability to build delivery reporting and analysis and identify gaps behind status reporting.
- Fluency with planned-versus-actual delivery, cycle time, throughput, escaped bugs, rework, blocked work, and predictability metrics.
- Risk and dependency management experience.
- Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Hands-on experience with delivery and engineering tools such as Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Linear, or Azure DevOps.
- Multi-product SaaS experience and experience with external engineering partners are a plus.
- Experience building vendor scorecards or delivery performance frameworks is a plus.
- Experience introducing Definition of Ready/Done, release checklists, or quality gates is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Build visibility into external teams’ work, ownership, and delivery risks.
- Ensure delivery plans are realistic, transparent, aligned with business priorities, and tracked against progress.
- Identify delivery delays early and diagnose causes such as estimation, scope, capacity, quality, or dependencies.
- Improve planning and forecasting using evidence-based delivery measures.
- Work with QA and engineering leads to track escaped bugs, rework, release readiness, and quality gates.
- Track cross-team dependencies, ensure blockers have owners, and run fact-based escalation paths.
- Assess team composition, role coverage, ownership, capability gaps, and delivery setup.
- Ensure external teams follow company delivery rules, documentation expectations, engineering standards, quality gates, and reporting practices.
- Build vendor and team scorecards covering predictability, quality, responsiveness, planning accuracy, reliability, and escalations.
- Communicate delivery status, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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