Manifest Solutions is currently seeking an IT Software Delivery Manager for a position in Columbus, OH.
- Responsible for managing/coaching agile software development teams in delivery of software.
- Partners with stakeholders and the development team to establish a product delivery roadmap and ensures there is a shared understanding of product/business objectives, while meeting established engineering standards, procedures, and practices.
- Partners with stakeholders and other teams to establish and manage expectations around milestones and schedule, owning issues, risks, and mitigation plans.
- Ensures that software development teams have the resources they need to deliver software products and meet objectives, managing budgets and vendors.
- Works with team to de-risk objectives, estimate and size work, establishes and maintains a burn up against milestones to hit high integrity commitments.
- Optimizes production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis and root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability, security, and performance
- Encourage collaboration and proactively seek opportunities to improve collaboration with their stakeholders and other product teams, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement.
- Proactively identifies and removes blockers, limits work in progress and prevents distractions.
- Demonstrates effective and efficient capability in identifying, proposing, and soliciting innovative solutions to complex, time-critical challenges.
- Coordinates release, regression, deployments and sprint planning and execution.
- Provides leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development, and responsible for talent retention and acquisition.
- Manages all internal and external sox reviews, audit reviews, and governing policies.
Required
- Bachelor's degree Minimum 8 years of experience in delivery software products, with 4+ years of experience in management/leadership, and 2+ years of experience in hands-on development.
- Experience in leading technical teams on the SAP and/or Salesforce platforms
- Experience in managing patching/upgrades/releases on SAP and/or Salesforce platforms
- Technical/engineering experience in either platform preferred
Preferred
- Strongly preferred experience in an Agile culture with the proven ability to coach teams and stakeholders in practice adoption and maturity.
- Strongly preferred experience leading delivery of software development efforts within the relevant technology domain or platform environment.
- Strongly preferred experience in relevant DevOps practices.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Exceptional written and verbal communication and time management skills.
- Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycle practices, Agile delivery methods, and team-based product development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop software delivery teams while fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Proven capability in delivery planning, milestone management, release coordination, and sprint execution.
- Ability to identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks, dependencies, blockers, and resource constraints.
- Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, facilitation, and expectation-setting skills.
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices, operational monitoring, capacity analysis, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement methods.
- Ability to manage budgets, vendor relationships, audit activities, compliance reviews, and governing policies as required.
- Regulated utility experience strongly preferred.
