Head of Engineering Delivery

What You’ll Do

• Leading and developing the Delivery Lead team: Providing professional and people management leadership, defining responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Managing and improving the product development delivery system: Ensuring transparency of commitments, deadlines, dependencies, and risks, while monitoring and improving delivery performance.
• Coordinating critical development processes: Ensuring the effective execution of product development deliverables, production handovers, firmware and software releases, engineering changes, and L3 Support escalation processes.
• Driving process improvement and operational efficiency: Identifying bottlenecks, reducing lead times and rework, and implementing improvements that deliver measurable results.
• Enhancing Jira governance and reporting: Establishing standardized workflows, status models, dashboards, and data-driven reporting standards while simplifying Jira processes.
• Managing critical delivery challenges: Resolving risks and blockers, developing recovery plans, and facilitating collaboration across different functions.
• Supporting management decision-making: Providing transparent, reliable data and actionable recommendations to support portfolio, capacity, and prioritization decisions.

What We’re Looking For

• A university degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in delivery management, program management, project management, engineering operations, or product development.
• A minimum of 3 years of leadership and people management experience, including managing teams of senior professionals or team leaders.
• Strong understanding of hardware and software development processes and their interdependencies.
• In-depth knowledge of Jira, workflow management, and reporting.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process improvement skills, with the ability to translate insights into concrete actions.
• Confident leadership skills, excellent communication abilities, and strong stakeholder management capabilities.
• Fluent, professional working proficiency in English.

Nice to have

• Have experience working in a complex product development environment involving both hardware and software development.
• Have been involved in designing or transforming organization-wide delivery operating models.
• Have led process improvement initiatives based on Lean, Agile, or other methodologies.
• Have experience standardizing or simplifying Jira systems or implementing automated reporting solutions.
• Have a proven track record of managing complex cross-functional challenges and supporting management-level decision-making.
• Are familiar with production handover, release management, or product lifecycle management processes.

What We Offer

• A friendly, dynamic, and supportive team with a great atmosphere.
• The opportunity to work from home 2 days a week after the onboarding period.
• Flexible working hours with core working hours.
• The opportunity to contribute to the global success of a Hungarian company.
• A stable company with a dynamic growth environment.
• A people-oriented company culture.
• An environment where your ideas are heard and valued.
• Health insurance.
• AYCM sports and wellness card.
• A centrally located office with excellent accessibility.
• High-quality team-building events and various social activities.

Juttatások

• AYCM
• Cafeteria
• Irodai masszázs
• Paskal fürdőbelépő
• Bónusz
• Egészségbiztosítás
• Nyelvtanulás támogatása
• Utazási költségtérítés

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