Technology Delivery Manager

Guardian Life; Holmdel Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking a Technology Delivery Manager for Technology Operations in a hybrid role based in Holmdel, NJ. The role coordinates strategic and operational technology initiatives, delivering clear priorities, milestones, and accountable outcomes.

Responsibilities include leading the integrated delivery portfolio, coordinating with leadership and delivery teams, and ensuring governance, risk, and dependency management across infrastructure, cloud, resilience, and lifecycle initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 8 years leading technology delivery in enterprise environments.
• Experience driving multiple initiatives across infrastructure, operations, cloud, and platform teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication including executive reporting.
• Proven ability to manage outcomes, risks, dependencies, resources, and cross-team commitments.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated delivery portfolio for Technology Operations.
• Lead intake, prioritization, sequencing, capacity, and dependency management.
• Establish delivery governance, forums, and consistent practices across the portfolio.
• Drive initiatives from definition through to operations with clear outcomes and milestones.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans with risks, decisions, and mitigations.
• Monitor delivery performance and resolve cross-team impediments.
• Communicate status to executives and stakeholders with concise dashboards.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Portfolio management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk & dependency management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Engineering/Business or equivalent

PMP / PgMP / SAFe / Scrum certification

Job description

Hybrid - In office 3 days per week

Holmdel

Full time

R000110575

Job Summary

The Technology Delivery Manager, Technology Operations is accountable for coordinating and driving the successful delivery of strategic and operational technology initiatives across the Technology Operations organization. The role provides a centralized view of priorities, commitments, dependencies, risks, and outcomes while enabling teams to execute with clarity, discipline, and speed.

Partnering closely with Technology Operations leadership and delivery teams, this role strengthens execution rigor, delivery transparency, and predictable outcomes across infrastructure operations, resilience, lifecycle management, observability, data management, middleware, cloud operations, and recovery initiatives.

Essential Responsibilities

Technology Portfolio & Delivery Management

• Own the integrated delivery portfolio for Technology Operations across all functional domains.

• Lead initiative intake, prioritization, sequencing, capacity alignment, and dependency management in partnership with Technology Operations leadership.

• Establish practical and consistent delivery practices, tools, decision forums, and governance across the portfolio.

Delivery Planning & Execution

• Drive initiatives from definition through implementation and transition to operations, ensuring clear outcomes, scope, ownership, milestones, and acceptance criteria.

• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, resources, and mitigation actions.

• Monitor delivery performance and proactively resolve execution risks, resource constraints, cross-team dependencies, and impediments.

• Facilitate cross-functional execution while maintaining clear accountability for commitments and outcomes.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Serve as the primary point of coordination for Technology Operations delivery status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and escalations.

• Prepare and deliver concise executive communications, portfolio dashboards, decision materials, and outcome-based status reporting.

• Facilitate leadership reviews, delivery forums, dependency discussions, and escalation paths as needed.

Governance, Reporting & Compliance

• Implement standardized reporting for delivery health, milestones, risks, dependencies, financials, and realized outcomes across the portfolio.

• Ensure delivery activities align with enterprise governance, audit, compliance, resilience testing, and regulatory readiness requirements.

• Use delivery insights, retrospectives, and lessons learned to improve ways of working and execution performance.

Execution Enablement

• Coordinate Technology Operations teams, enterprise partners, vendors, and consultants to align responsibilities, dependencies, and delivery commitments.

• Enable major transformation, modernization, and resilience initiatives through effective sequencing, resource alignment, and execution governance.

• Remove delivery friction, accelerate decision-making, and improve predictability across Technology Operations initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience leading technology delivery, complex initiatives, or cross-functional execution within enterprise technology environments.

• Demonstrated experience driving multiple concurrent initiatives across infrastructure, operations, resilience, cloud, platform, or other technology organizations.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting, decision framing, and stakeholder alignment.

• Proven ability to manage outcomes, risks, dependencies, resources, and cross-team delivery commitments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Technology Operations, Infrastructure, Resilience, Disaster Recovery, or Platform Services organizations.

• Familiarity with enterprise governance, risk management, or regulatory environments.

• Relevant delivery, agile, product, or project leadership certification such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, Scrum, or equivalent experience.

• Experience operating in a centralized delivery function, transformation office, enterprise PMO, or hub-and-spoke delivery model.

Key Competencies

• Technology delivery leadership

• Portfolio prioritization, planning, and sequencing

• Outcome, risk, dependency, and resource management

• Executive communication, decision support, and reporting

• Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder alignment

• Execution discipline, adaptability, and continuous improvement

Success Measures

• Improved predictability and achievement of committed technology outcomes

• Increased transparency into delivery health, dependencies, decisions, and portfolio risks

• Reduced execution bottlenecks, unresolved dependencies, and unplanned escalations

• Successful delivery and operational adoption of strategic, modernization, resilience, and lifecycle initiatives

Salary Range:

$118,980.00 - $195,465.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

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Visa Sponsorship:

Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas (e.g., such as an H-1B). In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.