Manager - Engineering (Legacy / VBA / .NET)

Davies Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Davies Group is seeking a Manager - Engineering to lead Legacy/VBA/.NET delivery from Pune. The role focuses on clearing obstacles, guiding teams, and ensuring value delivery across IT projects. Strong leadership, agile mindset, and collaboration are essential.

You will partner with product leads, architects, and stakeholders to drive milestones, manage dependencies, and coordinate go-live readiness while promoting best practices across squads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record delivering software within timelines.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end delivery of software features from discovery to deployment.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigate blockers across squads.
• Drive the delivery roadmap with product and tech leads.
• Foster high-performing autonomous teams and implement delivery best practices.
• Coordinate cross-functional streams and prep go-live activities.

Skills

Delivery Leadership

Agile Scrum

Cross-functional Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

Team Mentoring

Problem Solving

Job description

Manager - Engineering (Legacy / VBA / .NET)

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune

Reporting To: Abhinav Gupta

Description

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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

• Be self-motivated with a strong work ethic that can work with limited supervision.
• Can adapt to a rapidly changing environment, ability to think ‘on their feet’ and learn quickly.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, calm under pressure & sound judgement in complex situations.
• Be co-operative, collaborative, and work toward common goal with others.
• Be open and inclusive approach, willing and able to interact internally and externally and at all levels within the company.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in a clear and concise manner.
• Can work under pressure and prioritise effectively, working on multiple tasks at the same time.
• Be acompetent user of IT with good working knowledge of Microsoft packages and confident in embracing new technology.
• Be an organised, proactive and confident self-starter.
• Demonstrate teamwork - Contributes actively to an environment in which colleagues work cooperatively with each other.
• Demonstrate Agile – Experience of Agile Scrum methodology.