[Hiring] Senior Team Delivery and Engineering Manager @Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia

Role Description

Senior Team and Delivery Leader is responsible for disciplinary leadership, leading employees in staff-related and functional terms. The holder of this position is organizing the team of experts with different skill profiles, motivating and enthusing staff, providing feedback, initiating training and further developing staff, promoting talent; and is responsible for overseeing technical solutions (job complexity D+) and provide coaching to team members. Assuming responsibility for high-level, complex task fields with a higher level of difficulty due to special/coordination tasks and assuming extensive responsibility for a large operational team area with largely standardized activities. Acts according to valid legislation and Slovak Labor code.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• You will help teams navigate the real trade-offs between speed, quality, technical debt, and long-term scalability - and turn those trade-offs into better engineering decisions.
• Lead and develop engineering teams by creating a strong team environment, coaching people, supporting growth, and helping engineers do their best work.
• Shape technical direction by guiding architecture and engineering decisions, overseeing complex technical solutions, and strengthening engineering standards.
• Own delivery outcomes by helping teams deliver high-quality results on time, improving predictability, and removing obstacles that slow delivery down.
• Strengthen quality and reliability by improving engineering practices, technical processes, and conditions for stable, secure, and sustainable delivery.
• Work across teams and stakeholders to turn business needs into technically sound solutions, align priorities, and manage expectations.
• Contribute to strategy and performance by supporting execution across your area, improving ways of working, and helping steer operational and financial priorities.
• Take leadership responsibility for your teams and area in line with valid legislation and the Slovak Labor Code.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN:

• Accountability for engineering team performance, technical execution quality, and sustainable delivery.
• Influence over team growth, hiring decisions, and engineering improvement priorities in your area.
• A shared role in technical direction together with Technical Leads and Architecture, with clear boundaries that keep hands-on technical ownership where it belongs.

SUCCESS IN THIS ROLE WILL LOOK LIKE:

• Building stable, engaged, and high-performing engineering teams.
• Improving delivery speed and engineering throughput without compromising quality.
• Reducing defects, rework, and post-release incidents.
• Strengthening adoption of CI/CD, test automation, and observability across teams.
• Establishing clear technical standards that teams follow consistently.
• Shortening time to market while delivering with the right level of quality, reliability, and sustainability.

Qualifications

• This role is a strong next step for a senior SW engineer, DevOps engineer, or technical leader who wants to expand their impact - from solving technical problems directly to shaping teams, delivery, and engineering excellence more broadly.
• Bring a strong software engineering background and can quickly earn credibility with engineers, technical leaders, and business stakeholders.
• Have proven people leadership experience, with the ability to coach, develop, and grow high-performing teams.
• Combine solid architectural understanding with a pragmatic mindset, knowing when to push for quality and when to keep solutions simple.
• Are confident challenging both unrealistic business expectations and over-engineered technical approaches to protect delivery, quality, and long-term sustainability.
• Think strategically, act with ownership, and can lead teams through change, transformation, and continuous improvement.
• Communicate clearly, manage conflict constructively, and build trust across teams, functions, and locations.
• Are comfortable balancing technical, people, operational, and financial priorities in a complex environment.

Benefits

• Financial benefits.
• Benefits with focus on learning and development.
• Benefits with focus on health and sport.
• Benefits with focus on family and work-life balance.
• Other benefits.

Salary

Final salary is negotiable. We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2,700€ /brutto.

Location

Kosice