Application Development Manager

Covestic Inc; Ernakulam; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Covestic Inc seeks a Senior Delivery Manager in India (Kerala) to lead delivery across three teams with hands‑on technical leadership and strong engineering depth. You will guide sprint health, architecture decisions and complex issue resolution while ensuring quality and on‑time deliverables.

The role requires mentoring Technical Leads and engineers, managing capacity and cross‑team dependencies, and coordinating release readiness with client-facing engagements. MBA or PMP/PgMP are advantageous.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering or delivery management experience across multi‑team software programs.
• Strong grasp of sprint delivery health metrics, capacity planning and staffing management.
• Experience setting and enforcing engineering quality standards across concurrent teams.
• Must be technically stronger than a Technical Lead, with hands‑on experience in modern application development, system design, architecture oversight, code reviews, and production issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Own sprint delivery health, capacity planning and staffing management across all three teams.
• Set and enforce engineering quality standards across the delivery organization.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across architecture decisions, design reviews, code‑quality practices, and complex engineering issue resolution.
• Resolve cross‑team dependencies alongside the Agile Coach (RTE).
• Coordinate release readiness and launch‑position verification against the SOW's committed deliverables.
• Act as the primary delivery‑management escalation point before issues are elevated to the Client Service Organization.

Skills

Delivery management

Engineering depth

Hands-on leadership

Sprint health metrics

Capacity planning

Staffing management

Code reviews

Architecture oversight

Production issue resolution

Release readiness

Education

B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science or related field

MBA preferred

PMP or PgMP certification advantageous

Job description

Role summary

Leads delivery execution across the three delivery teams while operating as a senior, hands‑on technical leader above Technical Lead level. The role requires strong engineering depth, active involvement in technical decision‑making, sprint delivery health, capacity and staffing management, engineering quality standards, and cross‑team dependency resolution.

Key responsibilities

• Own sprint delivery health, capacity planning and staffing management across all three teams
• Set and enforce engineering quality standards across the delivery organization
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership across architecture decisions, design reviews, code‑quality practices, and complex engineering issue resolution
• Resolve cross‑team dependencies alongside the Agile Coach (RTE)
• Coordinate release readiness and launch‑position verification against the SOW's committed deliverables
• Act as the primary delivery‑management escalation point before issues are elevated to the Client Service Organization

Required skills & experience

• 12+ years engineering or delivery management experience across multi‑team software programs
• Strong grasp of sprint delivery health metrics, capacity planning and staffing management
• Experience setting and enforcing engineering quality standards across concurrent teams
• Must be technically stronger than a Technical Lead, with hands‑on experience in modern application development, system design, architecture oversight, code reviews, and production issue resolution
• Comfortable owning release‑readiness and launch‑position verification processes
• Proven ability to mentor Technical Leads and senior engineers while remaining hands‑on enough to challenge solution choices and guide implementation quality
• Experience escalating and resolving delivery risk in a client‑facing engagement

Preferred qualifications

• Experience managing staffing/backfill across a 25+ person delivery organization
• Familiarity with AI/RAG delivery quality standards specifically

Education

B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science or a related field, MBA preferred, or equivalent practical experience; PMP or PgMP certification an advantage.