Development Team Lead

ParentPay Group - India; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

ParentPay Group - India seeks an experienced Delivery Manager to lead a development team in Pune, driving delivery excellence from scoping to deployment. You will manage scope, schedule, budget, and quality levers, coordinating dependencies and RAIDs to build a high-performing delivery machine.

Responsibilities include creating realistic roadmaps, aligning with Product Owner and Tech Lead, and fostering collaboration across stakeholders to ensure timely, quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Drives to Outcomes: focuses on results and how to achieve them.
• Ownership & Accountability: takes responsibility, makes tough decisions, removes blockers.
• Continuous Improvement: seeks ongoing learning and better ways to work.

Responsibilities

• Delivery Management: track progress, risks, issues and ensure team commitments.
• Continuous Delivery Planning: create realistic roadmaps with milestones and resources.
• Scope Management: balance change requests with delivery constraints and align with Product Owner and Tech Lead.
• Risk Management: map, mitigate and resolve risks across project dimensions.
• Stakeholder Management: engage and manage stakeholder expectations and relationships.
• Facilitation: guide team and stakeholders towards shared vision and decisions.
• Agile & Lean Principles: promote lean and agile practices for quality and speed.
• Build High Performing Teams: support and empower teams to excel.
• Servant Leadership: serve team needs and foster growth.
• Feedback: conduct timely, constructive conversations about performance.
• Emotional Intelligence: manage emotions and influence others.
• Collaboration: work with cross-functional teams to achieve goals.

Skills

Outcomes-focused

Ownership & accountability

Continuous improvement

Job description

Leads a team to successfully deliver to stakeholder expectations. Responsible for managing scope, schedule, budget and quality levers; managing dependencies and RAIDs within the team and across the organization. Builds a high performing delivery machine.

Department

Development

Location

Pune, India

Outcomes

• An inspired sense of shared purpose within the project team
• A defined roadmap and well understood success criteria aligned to delivery needs
• Consistent transparent, and accessible communications to all stakeholders internal and external
• Realistic and regular expectation setting and negotiation
• Risk mitigation
• People support and growth
• Creation of deployment systems/processes to reduce-friction-with external dependencies
• Reduced cycle time of stories from grooming through deployment
• Clear escalation paths for issue management through project stakeholders
• Clear “definition of done”
• Continuous team reflection and improvement.
• Creation of cross-functional teams that have the right balance of skills and capacity to be autonomous and performant.

Key Responsibilities

• Delivery Management: manage and ensure the progress of project work, "continuous flow" and adherence to team commitments. Includes tracking of work, management of risks, and remediation of issues.
• Continuous Delivery Planning: create a realistic, achievable roadmap showing how and when the project goals will be met along with the required milestones, mitigations, activities and resources required. Continuously evolving the plan to reflect current reality of the Project and view of the future
• Scope Management: Embrace flexibility in requirements change to maximise the stakeholder value whilst balancing management of delivery and expectations of required objectives within a defined timeframe. Understanding which scope management techniques to employ based on the impact of the change. Establish a strong partnership with Product Owner and Tech Lead to ensure effective prioritization that balances business value, quality and other constraints.
• Risk Management: Map and comprehend the risks involved in several dimensions of the work, aiming to prevent them by reducing and mitigating them when possible.
• Stakeholder Management: identify, analyze, plan and implement actions that engage and build relationships as well as sustain them long term through effective expectation management, so as to enable each party to reach their goals.
• Facilitation: steer team and stakeholders to work well, both in defining a common vision, making decisions, achieving their goals and creating a relational climate where trust prevails and communication is fluid, empathic and honest.
• Agile & Lean Principles: guide and champion lean and agile principles for achieving quality, adaptability, speed & alignment. This includes the practices, techniques and tools that support those principles, and an understanding of when things may or may not be applicable in a situation or context.
• Build High Performing Teams: enable a group of people who share a common vision, goals, metrics and who collaborate, challenge and hold each other accountable, to achieve outstanding results. Understand individuals, their motivations and provide them the support needed so they can excel in their roles.
• Servant Leadership: leads by example. Serves the needs of the team by serving its team members. Put the needs of others first and help people develop and perform as highly as possible.
• Giving & Receiving Feedback: solicit and engage with feedback on a continuous basis. Having timely, actionable and meaningful conversations about performance for the purpose of shaping behaviors and fostering learning, with the goal of strengthening confidence and improving the effectiveness of self and others.
• Emotional Intelligence: recognizes, understands and manages their own emotions and recognizes, understands, shares and influences the emotions of others.
• Collaboration: works jointly with others to co-create and achieve a common goal. This includes learning, practicing and experimenting with tools, techniques and frameworks that foster collaborative working environments.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Drives to Outcomes: focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Able to execute plans through to action. Persistent to complete tasks and a strong commitment to take action that moves things along to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Ownership & Accountability takes personal accountability and ownership for their work. This includes personal follow through, making and defending difficult decisions and tradeoffs, removing blockers, driving collective progress.
• Continuous Improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others.