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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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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