Role Overview
The Delivery Manager will lead and oversee cross-functional Teams delivering high-quality solutions in the Insurance domain. The role requires deep end-to-end insurance expertise, strong delivery management capabilities, and leadership over Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and technical teams (Frontend & Backend Developers). The individual will ensure seamless execution across all pods while driving operational excellence, stakeholder alignment, product quality, and timely delivery.
Key Responsibilities
1. Delivery Leadership
- Own end-to-end delivery for all initiatives executed across cross-functional Teams, ensuring timeline, scope, and quality adherence.
- Implement Agile/Hybrid delivery methodologies to streamline execution and ensure predictable delivery.
- Drive delivery governance: weekly reviews, status reporting, risk/issue tracking, capacity planning, and performance metrics.
- Ensure efficient sprint execution, backlog prioritization, and release planning.
2. Insurance Domain Ownership
- Act as the domain authority across the complete insurance value chain:
- Bancassurance operations
- Policy issuance & servicing
- Claims processing
- Renewals, endorsements, and regulatory compliance
- Provide domain guidance to Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and tech teams to ensure solution accuracy and alignment.
3. Team & Pod Management
- Lead and mentor the teams within all pods, which include:
- Product Owners
- Frontend Developers
- Drive collaboration and alignment across pods to ensure consistency and knowledge sharing.
- Enable capability development, performance management, and continuous improvement initiatives within teams.
4. Stakeholder Management
- Engage with internal and external stakeholders including business leaders, engineering heads, bancassurance partners, and third-party vendors.
- Conduct steering committee meetings, product demos, and roadmap reviews.
- Ensure effective communication on delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes.
5. Quality & Compliance
- Ensure solution delivery adheres to insurance regulations, compliance requirements, and internal organizational standards.
- Oversee testing strategy, UAT readiness, deployment governance, and post-production stability.
- Ensure all change requests, enhancements, and incidents are managed smoothly.
Required Skills & Experience
Domain & Functional Skills
- 15+ years of experience in Insurance Delivery Management,
- Strong understanding of insurance operations, digital transformation, distribution channels, and regulatory frameworks.
- Experience delivering multi-system integrations involving APIs, partner portals, policy admin systems, CRM, and claims platforms.
Technical & Delivery Skills
- Strong understanding of application architectures, frontend/backend technologies, APIs, and cloud-based platforms.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as JIRA, ADO, Confluence, and Agile delivery metrics.