Delivery Manager

What You'll Do What You'll do As a Delivery Manager - Engineering at Principal Financial Group, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native solutions using Java, Spring Boot, APIs, and AWS while driving technical excellence across engineering teams. You'll partner with Product, Architecture, Security, and Business stakeholders to translate business needs into sustainable technical solutions, mentor engineers and Tech Leads, guide architectural decisions, and help modernize platforms through cloud, AI, and automation initiatives. You'll play a key role in solving complex engineering challenges, influencing technology strategy, and ensuring the delivery of secure, reliable, and high-performing applications that create measurable business value. You'll have opportunity to: Delivery & Execution Leadership Lead multiple cross-functional engineering teams delivering business-critical technology solutions. Drive the implementation of central initiatives, product roadmaps, modernization programs, and operational excellence objectives. Establish delivery governance, planning, prioritization, dependency management, release management, and risk mitigation practices. Ensure predictable delivery outcomes aligned with business commitments and organizational goals. Handle production support, operational health, service reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives. Engineering & Technology Leadership Provide engineering leadership and technology oversight for assigned product and platform teams. Partner with architects and engineering leads to define and complete technology strategy and modernization initiatives. Drive engineering excellence through established guidelines, automation, quality engineering, DevOps, security, and operational resiliency. Support technical decision-making, architectural alignment, technical debt reduction, and platform simplification efforts. Encourage an environment that values creativity, ongoing education, excellence, and responsibility. AI & Innovation Leadership Lead the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices to boost development efficiency, delivery velocity, quality, and operational performance. Partner with engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and implement solutions powered by artificial intelligence that build measurable business impact. Promote responsible use of AI technologies, ensuring compliance, security, governance, and risk management standards. Drive innovation culture through experimentation, proof-of-concepts, hackathons, and emerging technology adoption. Engineering Efficiency, Metrics & Outcomes Establish and drive engineering efficiency and operational excellence metrics across teams. Apply Developer Experience (DX) and Engineering Excellence frameworks to increase developer efficiency, system reliability, quality, and delivery predictability. Leverage engineering insights and platform metrics to identify bottlenecks, improve value stream flow, and increase team efficiency. Drive adoption of data-driven decision making using engineering, delivery, quality, and operational benchmarks. Promote automation-first approaches to reduce manual effort, improve scalability, and accelerate time-to-market. People Leadership Lead, coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent across multiple teams. Drive employee engagement, retention, succession planning, and leadership development initiatives. Build high-performing, inclusive teams passionate about collaboration, innovation, and customer outcomes. Assist with recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning, and talent acquisition efforts. Performance & Talent Management Own performance management processes including goal setting, development planning, talent assessments, and appraisal cycles. Conduct regular mentoring and career development discussions with team members. Identify growth opportunities and build development plans aligned with organizational needs. Recognize and reward performance while encouraging a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Collaborator & Business Partnership Partner with Product Managers, Architects, Business Leaders, Operations, and Enterprise collaborators. Provide regular updates on delivery status, risks, dependencies, and strategic priorities. Influence decisions through data-driven insights, technical expertise, and strong business sense. Align engineering projects with business goals and customer results. Position Purpose: Plan, Manage and deliver the project as per contractual agreement. Essential Functions % of Time Spent Delivery Management 1. Planning and estimation, scheduling, task allocation, monitoring & control, reviews 2. Provide domain and technical leadership, Knowledge Management 3. Relationship Management and Partner Satisfaction 40 Process improvement & adherence 4. Establish and continually improve project management and execution processes including Risk Management, communication,, defect management & prevention 5. Status reporting, metrics generation & analysis 30 People Management 6. Staffing, onboarding, Skill building, Back-up Planning 7. Employee Satisfaction 8. Mentoring team members 9. Handling appraisals and feedback 20 Contribution to organizational activities 10 Dimensions: Will usually have 8-20 direct reports and will be responsible for their personnel management Can handle projects where various types of skill sets (technology) is used as well as distributed teams. Reporting Relationship: This position reports to:Portfolio Manager (Principal Consultant) Direct Reports:Consultants, Associate Consultants and Trainees Who You Are Who You are: As a Delivery Manager - Engineering at Principal Financial Group, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native solutions using Java, Spring Boot, APIs, AI exposure and AWS while driving technical excellence across engineering teams. Experience: 10 to 13 years Technology industry experience with progressive responsibilities in software engineer