[Hiring] Senior Engineering Delivery Manager @F & I Sentinel Llc

Role Description

F&I Sentinel is seeking an experienced Engineering Delivery Manager to help establish a more predictable, transparent, and scalable software-delivery organization. This individual will be the operational partner to the Vice President of Engineering and will coordinate planning, delivery visibility, risk management, dependencies, and release readiness across Product and Engineering. The successful candidate will combine delivery leadership, practical software-development knowledge, data-driven judgment, and exceptional organization. This is a senior individual-contributor role with the opportunity to help shape the engineering operating model. The position is remote based with limited travel required.

• Enable predictable, high-quality delivery by establishing scalable planning processes, delivery governance, and cross-functional coordination.
• Establish and lead a predictable planning rhythm so engineering commitments are realistic, achievable, and consistently met.
• Drive effective execution by improving the quality and outcomes of delivery meetings.
• Coach Product and Engineering teams on practical delivery best practices.
• Provide leadership with an accurate view of delivery health.
• Surface risk and dependencies early for proactive management.
• Ensure releases are ready with confirmed scope, risk, and operational readiness.
• Keep delivery systems up to date for trusted status and forecasts.
• Turn capacity and quarterly/sprint planning into a disciplined, repeatable cadence.
• Align Product and Engineering around realistic trade-offs.
• Convert lessons learned into repeatable practices for scaling delivery capability.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in engineering delivery, technical program management, engineering operations, software program management, Scrum leadership, or a similar role.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex software initiatives across multiple teams or functions.
• Strong planning, sequencing, dependency, risk, and delivery-forecasting skills.
• Experience facilitating planning, refinement, delivery reviews, retrospectives, and release readiness.
• Practical knowledge of Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong working knowledge of Jira and Confluence.
• Experience using delivery metrics such as cycle time, throughput, predictability, work in progress, and milestone health.
• Working knowledge of software lifecycles, testing, releases, environments, APIs, integrations, CI/CD, and technical debt.
• Ability to engage credibly with engineers.
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering leaders.
• Strong facilitation skills and the ability to drive decisions, ownership, and follow-through.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, listening, and executive-communication skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to identify and communicate delivery risks early, directly, and constructively.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating closely across functions.
• A hands-on approach to reporting, workflows, facilitation, and follow-through.
• Demonstrated interest and potential to grow into broader engineering-operations leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience (preferred).
• Experience with enterprise SaaS, fintech, financial services, automotive technology, or another regulated industry (preferred).
• Experience supporting API-enabled, integration-heavy, data-intensive, or partner-delivered products (preferred).
• Experience coordinating distributed, remote, outsourced, or offshore engineering teams (preferred).
• Experience in a growing company where processes and structures are evolving (preferred).
• Experience improving an engineering-delivery, engineering-operations, or technical-program-management model (preferred).
• Agile, Scrum, project-management, or program-management certification (preferred).

Benefits

• The business is positioned for continued growth.
• F&I Sentinel provides technology and services that help protect financial institutions, businesses, and consumers.
• The role offers the opportunity to shape a critical engineering capability and improve company execution.
• Meaningful exposure to Product, Engineering, company leadership, strategic initiatives, and external partners.
• Opportunity to combine hands-on delivery leadership with potential growth into broader engineering operations.
• F&I Sentinel values ideas, initiative, accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.