Davies North America

Manager - Engineering

Davies North America  •  Pune, IN (Onsite)  •  26 days ago
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Job Description

Manager - Engineering

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune


We are currently delivering a 3-year programme of system consolidation and are looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to coordinate and facilitate key milestones‑quality products and enhancements efficiently, predictably, and sustainably. They remove obstacles, optimise flow, facilitate effective collaboration, and support teams in meeting their delivery commitments. Delivery Managers act as the connective tissue between engineering, product, and business stakeholders, ensuring transparency, alignment, and continuous improvement.

The Delivery Manager is responsible for ensuring that milestones are clearly understood and documented, and software development teams deliver high quality products and enhancements efficiently, predictably, and sustainably, focusing on resolving business problems/goals. They remove obstacles, facilitate effective collaboration, and support teams in meeting their delivery commitments and delivering value.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Planning & Execution
Oversee and facilitate the end-to-end delivery of software features, services, or platforms from discovery through deployment‑to‑end delivery of software features, services, or platforms from discovery through deployment. Track and manage dependencies, risks, and issues across squads and functions, feeding into central logs and steering board packs as required. Drive the delivery roadmap in partnership with Head of Products and Technical Leads.

Stakeholder Communication & Transparency
Provide clear, consistent communication on progress, risks, and priorities. Support product and engineering leaders with data driven forecasting. Ensure that stakeholders have full visibility without disrupting team focus.

Team Enablement & Facilitation
Cultivate strong, autonomous, high performing teams by promoting good delivery practices. Facilitate workshops, and collaborative planning sessions. Remove impediments that block progress to the delivery of core programme milestones —both within the team and at organisational level. Facilitate and coordinate multiple streams across IT and business functions, including preparation of ‘go-live’ and support of hyper care

Governance, Standards & Compliance
Support PMO and senior leaders with creation of steering board presentations Ensure teams follow organisational quality, security, and delivery standards. Support coordination around audits, compliance checks, and release readiness activities.

Cross Team Coordination‑Team Coordination
Assist with managing cross team dependencies and facilitate alignment across multiple squads. Partner with architects, engineers, and product leaders to coordinate platform‑wide initiatives.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • Proven experience delivering complex software products or platforms.
  • Proven experience in delivering complex digital transformation programmes in using Agile principles
  • Strong understanding of agile, lean, and flow-based delivery practices
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to analyse data and use metrics to guide decisions.
  • Skilled facilitator able to lead discussions, workshops, and ceremonies.
Davies North America

About Davies North America

We deliver professional services and technology solutions across the risk and insurance market, including claims, underwriting, distribution, regulation, customer experience, human capital, digital transformation and change management. 

 

Our global team of more than 8,000 professionals operate across the UK, Ireland, Bermuda, the U.S., Canada, Spain, Switzerland, and India, providing specialist solutions to more than 1,000 highly regulated and global clients - helping them to manage risk, operate their core business processes, transform, and grow. 

Davies U.S. is dedicated to bringing this breadth of insurance sector services to America and is quickly expanding. We provide valuable integrated claims capability and resources, operational and consulting solutions for the insurance market, and innovative InsurTech. 

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Lakewood Ranch, Florida
Year Founded
1984
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