We are hiring a Senior Delivery Manager for one of our clients in San Francisco CA.
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced and technically-astute Delivery Manager to lead several strategic engineering teams within our Customer and Checkout domain. This is a critical role responsible for the end-to-end delivery of complex high-impact projects that define our customers journey-from identity and account management to the final purchase and order confirmation.
The ideal candidate is not just a project manager; you are a technical leader a strategic thinker and a master communicator. You have a deep understanding of software architecture a passion for engineering excellence and the ability to bridge the gap between business stakeholders and engineering teams. You thrive in a dynamic environment excel at managing ambiguity and have a proven track record of delivering robust scalable solutions that meet and exceed business goals.
What Youll Do (Key Responsibilities)
Delivery & Execution:
- Own End-to-End Delivery: Take full ownership of the delivery lifecycle for multiple engineering teams/tracks including planning execution risk management and successful release.
- Drive Predictable Delivery: Implement and refine agile processes to ensure a predictable and sustainable delivery cadence.
- Proactively identify and remove impediments shield the teams from distractions and manage dependencies across the organization.
- Strategic Road mapping: Collaborate with Product Managers Engineering Leads and business stakeholders to translate business goals into a clear actionable and technically feasible delivery roadmap.
- Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively identify track and mitigate risks issues and dependencies.
- Ensure cross-team and cross-departmental alignment to prevent bottlenecks.
Technical Leadership & Strategy:
- Champion Engineering Best Practices: Be a vocal advocate for high-quality code robust testing strategies (unit integration E2E) CI/CD observability and security-first development.
- Contribute to Architectural Decisions: Leverage your strong technical and architectural knowledge to participate in design discussions challenge assumptions and ensure solutions are scalable resilient and maintainable.
- Solve Complex Problems: When faced with unknowns or unexpected roadblocks demonstrate the aptitude to dive deep analyze the situation and architect pragmatic solutions to keep delivery on track.
- Manage Technical Debt: Work with teams to identify and prioritize technical debt ensuring a healthy balance between new feature development and long-term system health.
- Stakeholder Management & Communication:
- Be the Communications Hub: Serve as the primary point of contact for your delivery tracks. Effortlessly translate complex technical concepts for business stakeholders and articulate business goals and their impact to engineering teams.
- Manage Expectations: Provide clear consistent and transparent updates on progress priorities and risks to all stakeholders including senior leadership.
- Foster Collaboration: Build strong collaborative relationships with Product Design Analytics and other engineering teams to ensure a unified and effective approach to product development.
What Youll Bring (Qualifications)
Required Qualifications:
- Experience: 7 years of experience in the software industry with at least 4 years in a Delivery Manager Technical Program Manager or senior Scrum Master role managing multiple agile teams concurrently.
- Domain Expertise: Demonstrable experience in the e-commerce domain specifically with Customer identity (authentication/authorization) user accounts shopping cart and checkout/payment systems.
- Technical Acumen: Solid understanding of modern software architecture patterns (e.g. microservices event-driven architecture) cloud technologies (AWS GCP or Azure) and API design principles. You must be comfortable and credible in technical discussions with senior engineers.
- Agile Mastery: Deep expertise in Agile and Lean methodologies (Scrum Kanban) and a proven ability to adapt processes to fit the needs of the team and the business.
- Problem-Solving Skills: Exceptional ability to navigate ambiguity handle and resolve conflict and pivot quickly in response to changing priorities or technical challenges.
- Communication Excellence: World-class verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence negotiate and build consensus at all levels of the organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A background as a software engineer solutions architect or technical lead.
- Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or a related technical field.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems and high-traffic applications.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira Confluence and Miro.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or SAFe certification is a plus.
Skills required:
- Delivery Management
- Road Maps
- Risk and Dependency Management
- Ecommerce domain
- DevOps
Additional information:
- Final client round is F2F in SFO
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