Engineering Delivery Manager
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Job Location:
Reston, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 130603 - 222024
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Engineering Delivery Manager to lead and deliver robust high-quality software solutions. This role blends hands-on engineering leadership with delivery management focusing on team growth operational efficiency and measurable outcomes across Agile teams. You will drive technical excellence ensure consistent delivery performance and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Engineering Leadership / Release Delivery
- Lead mentor and grow a team of software engineers and/or data engineers.
- Foster a collaborative engineering culture and support career progression.
- Provide mentorship and pair engineers with peer mentors as needed including ability to hold teams and individuals accountable for quality delivery.
- Employ technical and thought leadership to drive products from inception to release while supporting automation efforts for unit integration E2E and other testing to promote quality.
- Advocate SAFe Agile SDLC and DevOps practices across teams and with customers.
- Ensure adherence to documented engineering standards and best practices to deliver high quality releases.
- Own release delivery performance and quality accountability across multiple teams.
- Align closely with product and technical leadership to ensure scope is delivery-ready and priorities are clear.
- Monitor execution against PI commitments ensuring consistent workflows and reporting on delivery cadence and quality.
- Coordinate readiness efforts for all releases including cutover planning pre-launch quality checks and internal sign-offs.
- Establish post-launch hypercare expectations and monitor production issues.
- Define and maintain delivery performance metrics (velocity sprint throughput feature delivery vs. PI commitments bug trends support volume defect resolution timelines).
- Build dashboards and reporting structures to surface trends and delivery risks.
- Communicate delivery health risks and successes to program leadership and customer stakeholders.
- Track delivery-related quality metrics (defect escape rates bugs per release mean time to resolution).
- Analyze post-launch behavior to identify quality breakdowns and inform future priorities.
- Identify and respond to patterns in blockers scope churn or quality gaps.
- Support onboarding of new team members and operationalize delivery processes as the program scales.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years managing two or more Scrum teams in an Agile environment or experience in IT as a lead supervisor or manager within software development teams.
- Must reside in the US and be able to obtain and maintain Public Trust Clearance.
- Must reside in the US be authorized to work in the US and work must be performed in the US.
- Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors degree Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field
- Experience in healthcare domain and/or federal contracting.
- Proven experience owning delivery performance including use of Jira and related tools.
- Understanding of Agile delivery at scale (e.g. SAFe).
- Experience supporting distributed teams and scaling Agile delivery.
- Knowledge of human-centered design principles in Agile environments.
Professional Skills
- Strong technical communication skills (written and verbal).
- Proven attention to detail and commitment to highest quality work.
- Ability to synthesize delivery data into actionable insights.
- Adept at facilitating cross-team coordination and removing delivery blockers.
- Skilled at building delivery dashboards and reporting mechanisms.
- Excellent time management organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and balancing strategic priorities with tactical execution.
- Known for driving accountability delivery focus and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Location: United States (Remote). Travel for a conference or to another ICF location for collaboration may be required. This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position note that ICF monitors employee work locations blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses and prohibits personal VPN connections.
Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance
Ready to make an impact Apply today to join our team as an Engineering Delivery Manager!
Working at ICF
ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider but were not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges navigate change and shape the future.We can only solve the worlds toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer.Together our employees are empowered to share theirexpertiseand collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information please read ourEEOpolicy.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Reasonable Accommodations are available including but not limited to for disabled veterans individuals with disabilities and individuals withsincerely heldreligious beliefs in all phases of the application and employment process. To requestan accommodationplease emailand we will be happy toassist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extentto provide needed reasonable accommodations.
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At ICF we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate orassistwith responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is notpermitted. This policy is in place tomaintainthe integrity and authenticity of the interview process.
However we understand that some candidates may require accommodationthat involves the use of AI. Ifsuch anaccommodation is needed candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at. Weare dedicated to providingthe necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.
Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position including but not limited to relevant work experience skills certifications and competencies that align to the specified role geographic location education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.
The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:
$130603.00 - $222024.00Nationwide Remote Office (US99)Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Kanban
- Project / Program Management
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Project Leadership
- Application Development
- Project Management
- Scrum
- Microsoft Project
- SDLC
- Project Implementation
About Company
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