Position: Delivery Manager
Company: EPAM Systems
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

It is the organization, administration, and supervision of people, processes, and technologies — which when combined into a
the comprehensive plan, provide the business and technical functions needed to achieve what the clients
expect to receive.

The role will be to oversee management and EPAM clients’ relationships. You will be accountable for the overall project delivery, client satisfaction, and management of expectations while ensuring that the work is on strategy, on time, and within budget.

Additionally, an important part of this role will be Resource Management and building the organization. This means defining a recruitment demand, hiring proper people, and allocating them to projects that match their skills and ambitions. You will be also responsible for creating a satisfying working environment for your team members, creating career development plans, and keeping them motivated.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Establish long-term partnerships with the clients and manage their expectations
- Take end-to-end responsibility for the delivery
- Build the delivery plan along with estimations on timeframes, quality, and quantity of resources required to successfully implement projects
- Prepare engagement revenue and resource forecasts
- Establish criteria concerning deliverability, performance, maintenance, design, and costs
- Assure governance of processes in delivery management and production as per selected delivery model
- Generate visible added value that the company delivers to the client by a suggestion of innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology to provide marketing differentiation, efficiency improvements, and better user experiences
- For the top management and the client — act as a single point of responsibility for any delivery-related matters, including escalations, upsells, ramp-downs, etc.
- Perform knowledge management within the organization, define skills/technologies to be learned and request respective training
- Perform motivation actions and coach/verify how the same is performed by managers and team leaders from your organization
- Conduct performance appraisals and manage salaries within the organization to meet attrition and profitability goals
- Ensure that proper software development processes and engineering standards are in place

REQUIREMENTS
- Strong technical background — Java or .Net are preferable
- Experience in managing software delivery organizations
- Experience in people management and growing the organization
- Experience in IT project management, including management of several projects in parallel
- Excellent knowledge of Agile software development methodologies
- Prior experience with hands-on software development and a good understanding of software engineering practices
- Excellent leadership and communication skills
- Demonstrated skills in client relationship management and ability to manage, direct and command respect from technical and delivery team members
- Ability to engage with the client in technology discussions
- Previous experience in working within outsourcing environments and managing offshore delivery organizations is highly desirable
- Upper-intermediate or higher English level, both spoken and written (B2+)

BENEFITS
- Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
- The individual career path
- Social package — medical insurance, sports
- Compensation for sick lists and regular vacations
- English classes with certified English teachers
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Flexible work hours.

EVEN MORE EPAM BENEFITS
- We offer the possibility to work on full product lifecycle —from concept to delivery into production
- We offer a mentorship program
- We offer guaranteed professional growth through the technology trainings and technology communities inside EPAM
- We are proactive Agile/Scrum/XP practitioners.