Manager - Engineering/DevOps

Davies Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Davies Group in Pune is seeking a Manager - Engineering/DevOps to lead delivery across IT. You will coordinate engineering, product, and business stakeholders to ensure milestones are understood and met, driving high-quality software delivery.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in senior delivery roles, strong Agile/DevOps background, and proven ability to facilitate cross‑functional collaboration in hybrid teams.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience in a senior delivery role.
• Essential: Proven experience delivering complex software products or platforms.
• Experience in digital transformation programmes using Agile methodologies.
• 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.
• Desirable: Experience in large multi-team environments or platform engineering settings.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern engineering workflows.
• Background in coaching teams in agile or flow-based methodologies.
• Ability to work with distributed or hybrid teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end delivery of software features from discovery to deployment.
• Provide clear progress, risks, and priorities; support data-driven forecasting.
• Promote delivery practices; facilitate workshops and planning; remove impediments.
• Support PMO with steering board materials; ensure quality, security, and release readiness.
• Coordinate cross‑team dependencies across IT and business functions; align platform initiatives.

Skills

Senior delivery experience

Agile & Lean delivery

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Facilitation of workshops

Cross-team coordination

Education

Technology degree preferred

Tools

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Platform engineering

Job description

Manager - Engineering/DevOps

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Description

Delivery Manager 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

• 1. 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.
• 2. 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.
• 3. 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
• 4. 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.
• 5. 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

At least 5 years’ experience in a senior delivery role. Preferable degree in technology but not essential if experience criteria is met

Essential 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.

Desirable Experience working in large, multi‑team environments or platform engineering settings. Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern engineering workflows. Background in coaching teams in agile or flow-based methodologies. Ability to work with distributed or hybrid teams.