Delivery Manager

What You'll Do

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives. We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for over 140 years.

 

With a goal to have 80% of our workloads in the cloud by 2026, there is an exciting opportunity before us to further modernize our systems to meet the growing needs of our customers.

Responsibilities

If you’re a highly driven individual that relishes new challenges, advocates for Agile methodology, enjoys working across multiple disciplines, likes to help shape strategic outcomes, exhibits a growth mindset, and is technically curious, this is an excellent opportunity for you!

 

As a Delivery Manager in our Retirement Engineering area, you will be a team level coach for one or more agile teams that empowers the team to focus on Predictability, Visibility, and Continuous Improvement while helping with impediments for the applications and platforms to achieve business outcomes.  You will be helping to produce and accelerate the teams effectiveness, efficiency and engagement.  This role will focus heavily on continuous improvement and requires collaboration with the business and other technology teams to influence and inspire outcomes.

 

You'll have the opportunity to:

Understand and advocate for an empirical approach to problem solving

• Utilize Lean and DevOps principles and practices to create stable, safe, and high performing delivery systems
• Define, orchestrate, manage, and coordinate the holistic product lifecycle, delivery cadence, release plan and sprint schedule for one or more teams.
• Help teams move from administrative to autonomous teams of the delivery lifecycle
• Recognize and propose strategies around problems affecting the team, communicate standards and facilitate working agreement on solutions.
• Proactively identify and improve components of the delivery system to produce desired results. Coach agile practices and inspire change across the development value stream.
• Persist in the face of roadblocks, effectively and efficiently working to resolve them.
• Partner with agile team members to solution and deliver business outcomes.
• Ensure quality is built into every step of the product delivery
• Enable Transparency ensuring that the team can adapt quickly to changes
• Provide an environment of psychological safety for the teams
• Facilitates collaboration and guides the team past the point of success
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging experimentation. Foster an environment of innovation, discovery, and growth.
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Who You Are

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree (preference in a computer science, technology, engineering or math-related field) and 3 years work experience or equivalent experience
• 4 years of Agile team experience in any well-known software environment preferred
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, activities and tasks under time constraints
• Ability to interface with executives and stakeholders regarding issues of project scope and status
• Knowledge of insurance and financial services products preferred
• Advanced planning/organizational, problem-solving, analytical, decision-making and communication skills required
• Basic mentoring and presentations skills required
• Ability to work on cross-functional teams and collaborate with both IT and non-IT partners

Salary Range Information

Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

Salary Range

$77350 - $182400 / year

Additional Information

Work Environments 

This role offers the ability for in-office, hybrid (blending both office and remote work in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements. You’ll work with your leader to determine which option may align best based on several factors. 

 

Job level

We’ll consider talent at the next level with the right experiences and skills.

Work Authorization/Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role. (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.)

 Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Global Investors positions, you’ll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household. These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

 Experience Principal

While our expertise spans the globe, we're bound by one common purpose: to foster a world where financial security is accessible to all. And our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees – individually and all of us together. Explore our core values, benefits and why we’re an exceptional place to grow your career.

 

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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