System Delivery Manager

Northwest Administrators, Inc; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Rx benefits

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid vacation & holidays

Sick leave

Job summary

Northwest Administrators, Inc. is seeking a Systems Delivery Manager in Seattle to lead business analysts, testers, and application support across the full delivery lifecycle.

You will partner with an external vendor to drive development initiatives and own day-to-day delivery. This hybrid role emphasizes operational and change leadership, building multi-year plans, and modernizing analysis, testing, and support practices while establishing meaningful performance metrics for continuous

Qualifications

• Educated. Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Experienced: 8-10 years in business analysis, quality assurance, application support, or systems delivery, including 5+ years leading teams of 10+ people across multiple disciplines.
• Certified. Certification in CBAP or CCBA (IIBA), ISTQB, or ITIL Foundation preferred
• Transformer. Experience leading the transformation from manual to automated processes, deep understanding of business analysis, and strong command of test strategy.
• Leadership. Proven record of assessing team performance and organizational needs, developing actionable improvement plans, and leading teams through significant change.
• Relationship Builder. Foster relationships with key stakeholders & manage expectations
• Communicator. Clear & effective communicator with strong interpersonal relationship skills
• Technically Savvy. Knowledge of SDLC, with practical experience in Agile, Scrum, Waterfall & hybrid environments

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop business analysts, testers and application support staff, ensuring clear priorities, effective collaboration, and reliable coverage of work.
• Ensure business needs are elicited, clarified, and translated into refined requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Oversee test strategy, test case design, test data, defect tracking and quality checkpoints so solutions are validated before release.
• Partner with business leaders to confirm plan details and consider readiness for deployment.
• Manage incidents, problems, and change processes for production systems, including post-launch monitoring, timely issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and clear communication with affected teams.
• Allocate team capacity across projects, enhancements, testing cycles, and support needs and communicate priorities, risks, and resource needs.
• Serve as a bridge between development, business operations, and third-party partners, including consultants and core vendors, so joint work is coordinated, resourced and aligned with business priorities.
• Develop a plan for modernizing analysis, testing and support practices, with clear milestones, resource needs, and measure of success.
• Define automation opportunities, recommend tools and frameworks, and integrate opportunities into key workflows for each team role.
• Establish meaningful metrics and use them to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile

Scrum

Waterfall

Hybrid SDLC

Team leadership

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Business Admin

Job description

Are you a proactive, detail-oriented leader with strong organizational and communication skills? Do you have a history of turning business needs into well-defined, tested, and supported systems? If this describes you, then you may be the person we’re seeking as our next Systems Delivery Manager!

What you'll be doing...

As the System Delivery Manager in our Quality Control Group, you will be responsible for overseeing the business analysts, testers and the application support staff across the full delivery lifecycle: requirements, testing, launch readiness, and post-launch support. You will also partner with an external vendor that provides software development services to fulfill development initiatives.

This is both an operational leadership role, and a change leadership role. You will take ownership of day-to-day delivery and drive the strengths of each function. You will also build and lead multi-year plans that keep the best of current practices while evolving how we deliver systems to support the business.

As a System Delivery Manager, you will:

• Manage, coach, and develop business analysts, testers and application support staff, ensuring clear priorities, effective collaboration, and reliable coverage of work.
• Ensure business needs are elicited, clarified, and translated into refined requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Oversee test strategy, test case design, test data, defect tracking and quality checkpoints so solutions are validated before release.
• Partner with business leaders to confirm plan details and consider readiness for deployment.
• Manage incidents, problems, and change processes for production systems, including post-launch monitoring, timely issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and clear communication with affected teams.
• Allocate team capacity across projects, enhancements, testing cycles, and support needs and communicate priorities, risks, and resource needs.
• Serve as a bridge between development, business operations, and third-party partners, including consultants and core vendors, so joint work is coordinated, resourced and aligned with business priorities.
• Develop a plan for modernizing analysis, testing and support practices, with clear milestones, resource needs, and measure of success.
• Define automation opportunities, recommend tools and frameworks, and integrate opportunities into key workflows for each team role.
• Establish meaningful metrics and use them to drive continuous improvement.

This position has a hybrid work schedule with 3 days per week (Tue, Wed & Thu) on-site in our Seattle office.

Who you are...

• Educated. Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Experienced. 8-10 years in business analysis, quality assurance, application support, or systems delivery, including 5+ years leading teams of 10+ people across multiple disciplines.
• Certified. Certification in CBAP or CCBA (IIBA), ISTQB, or ITIL Foundation preferred
• Transformer. Experience leading the transformation from manual to automated processes, deep understanding of business analysis, and strong command of test strategy.
• Leadership. Proven record of assessing team performance and organizational needs, developing actionable improvement plans, and leading teams through significant change.
• Relationship Builder. Foster relationships with key stakeholders & manage expectations
• Communicator. Clear & effective communicator with strong interpersonal relationship skills
• Technically Savvy. Knowledge of SDLC, with practical experience in Agile, Scrum, Waterfall & hybrid environments

Who we are…

Northwest Administrators, Inc. is an industry leader in third-party administration of employee benefits. We administer one of the largest multi-employer pension plans in the country, along with numerous large health and welfare plans. As part of our team, you will benefit from many training and development opportunities and can expect a better-than-market benefits package.

If hired, you can expect...

• Salary range of $11,935 - $16,150 per month (dependent upon experience & qualifications)
• Medical, Dental (w/Orthodontia), Vision, Rx benefits, disability & life insurance
• Optional benefits: health flex spending & dependent care assistance plans and pet insurance
• Generous 401(k) plan with employer base contribution and match
• Paid vacation, sick leave and holidays
• Collaborative team environment

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