Technical Delivery Manager

Accountabilities: Lead the complete delivery lifecycle of technology projects and programs, from discovery and initiation through implementation, release, stabilization, and closure. Translate business objectives and technical requirements into actionable delivery plans, milestones, roadmaps, resource forecasts, and measurable success criteria. Coordinate multiple technical and business workstreams, including engineering, product, architecture, DevOps, infrastructure, data, security, quality assurance, operations, and third-party partners. Work closely with engineering and architecture leaders to assess technical complexity, validate estimates, facilitate solution decisions, and maintain alignment with approved architecture and technical standards. Establish and maintain delivery governance, integrated schedules, project documentation, decision logs, status reports, and executive-level communications. Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, actions, dependencies, technical debt, and resource constraints, developing mitigation and recovery plans where necessary. Apply Scrum Master practices by facilitating backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies as required. Partner with Product Owners to translate business priorities and architectural direction into epics, features, user stories, technical enablers, and clear acceptance criteria. Monitor delivery performance, team capacity, sprint velocity, milestones, and quality metrics to improve predictability and address schedule slippage. Lead release planning and readiness activities, including testing, defect management, deployment coordination, rollback planning, security and operational approvals, go-live execution, hypercare, and production stabilization. Ensure quality and non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, availability, resilience, security, observability, and compliance, are integrated throughout the delivery lifecycle. Drive continuous improvement by establishing delivery standards, refining processes, promoting accountability, and incorporating lessons learned into future initiatives. Requirements: Experience: 10+ years of experience in technical delivery management, program management, or project leadership within technology consulting, professional services, or complex enterprise environments. Technical expertise: Strong understanding of application architecture, enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, data flows, security, development environments, CI/CD pipelines, testing, and production operations. End-to-end delivery: Proven experience managing complex technology initiatives throughout the entire delivery lifecycle, ensuring alignment between business objectives, technical architecture, delivery plans, and expected outcomes. Architecture and engineering collaboration: Ability to guide engineering teams, facilitate technical decisions, challenge estimates and assumptions, assess technical trade-offs, and maintain alignment with architectural standards. Cross-functional leadership: Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple teams and stakeholders across engineering, product, architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, security, data, QA, operations, and external vendors. Agile and Scrum: Hands-on experience with backlog management, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and continuous improvement practices. Risk and governance management: Strong capabilities in risk mitigation, issue resolution, dependency management, resource planning, escalation, delivery reporting, and stakeholder communication. Release and service management: Experience with release readiness, deployment planning, rollback strategies, go-live coordination, hypercare, production stabilization, and software development and application lifecycle management. IT service management: Familiarity with incident, problem, change, and production support processes, as well as quality assurance and operational readiness practices. Tools: Experience with Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or equivalent delivery and service-management platforms. Communication and leadership: Excellent organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to executive and non-technical audiences. Preferred qualifications: PMP, PRINCE2, PSM, CSM, or equivalent project management or Agile certifications; experience with scaled Agile frameworks such as SAFe; familiarity with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform; knowledge of microservices, API-led integration, event-driven and cloud-native architectures; exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, Site Reliability Engineering, and ITIL practices. Benefits: Work arrangement: Fully remote position within India. Contract type: Long-term contract opportunity. Working hours: 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM India Standard Time (IST). Professional development: Opportunity to lead complex technology initiatives and collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering and architecture teams. Technical exposure: Work across enterprise applications, cloud technologies, modern architecture patterns, Agile delivery, and production operations. Impact and ownership: Take responsibility for end-to-end delivery, influence technical decisions, and drive continuous improvement across technology programs. Compensation and additional benefits: Salary, healthcare coverage, paid leave, equipment provisions, and other benefits have not been specified in the provided job description.