Senior Technical Delivery Manager

The Senior Technical Delivery Manager at Banyan Software will oversee the effective integration of engineers and micro-teams in India into various operating companies. This role involves balancing technical oversight with delivery enablement, ensuring consistency, quality, and best practices across numerous engagements. The manager will partner with HQ stakeholders to ensure distributed teams operate as seamless extensions of their respective operating companies, focusing on quick value achievement and team development.

Must Have

• Oversee delivery across a portfolio of small distributed engineering teams.
• Ensure full integration of engineers into HQ systems and performance expectations.
• Align scope, timelines, and expectations for operating companies and India teams.
• Advise operating companies on role scoping, technical setup, and candidate assessment.
• Support recruitment for niche and senior technical roles.
• Develop scalable onboarding and delivery playbooks.
• Standardize technical delivery communication and collaboration practices.
• Serve as a delivery partner for CTOs, Product Leaders, and Engineering Managers.
• Provide leadership with updates on delivery outcomes and risks.
• Mentor India-based engineers and local leads for success in distributed environments.
• Collaborate with HR for retention, career growth, and performance.
• 15+ years in software engineering/delivery, with 5+ in leadership.
• Proven experience managing distributed teams at scale.
• Strong technical background (engineering, DevOps, or architecture).
• Experience creating global delivery playbooks and frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and cross-geography communication.
• Ability to manage multiple parallel engagements with structured prioritization.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software companies, their employees, and customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build and grow great enterprise software businesses all over the world that have dominant positions in niche vertical markets. In recent years, Banyan was named the #1 fastest-growing private software company in the US on the Inc. 5000 and amongst the top 10 fastest-growing companies by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 with a permanent capital base setup to preserve the legacy of founders, Banyan focuses on a buy and hold for life strategy for growing software companies that serve specialized vertical markets.

Role Overview

The Senior Technical Delivery Manager (TDM) ensures that engineers and micro-teams (often 1–2 members) established in India are integrated effectively into our operating companies under the Banyan Software umbrella. This role balances technical oversight with delivery enablement, helping operating companies achieve value quickly while maintaining consistency, quality, and best practices across dozens of engagements. The TDM partners with HQ engineering managers and stakeholders, and India-based tech leads (when available) to ensure distributed teams, whether a single engineer or a growing pod, operate as seamless extensions of their operating company’s workforce.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Oversight Across Many Small Teams

• Provide delivery visibility across a portfolio of Banyan operating companies, each with small distributed teams (1–5 engineers).
• Tracks & provides engineers are fully integrated into HQ rituals, systems, and performance expectations.
• Provide early guidance to align scope, timelines, and expectations between operating companies and India teams.

Technical Coaching & Quality

• Act as a trusted advisor to operating companies on role scoping, technical environment setup, candidate assessment/interview and onboarding readiness.
• Support recruitment decisions for niche or senior roles, validating alignment with operating company’s needs.

Scalable Playbooks & Standards

• Develop repeatable onboarding and delivery playbooks that scale across dozens of operating companies.
• Standardize practices for technical delivery communication, documentation, and collaboration between India and HQ teams.
• Continuously refine frameworks based on feedback and lessons learned.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a delivery partner for operating companies CTOs, Product Leaders, and Engineering Managers.
• Provide regular updates and recommendations to leadership on adoption, delivery outcomes, and risks based on defined KPIs and insights.
• Partner with Engagement Managers to align client engagement plans with HR, TA, IT and facilities setup.

Local Team Development & Leadership

• Mentor India-based engineers and local leads, helping them succeed in distributed environments.
• Partner with HQ and India HR to ensure retention, career growth, and performance alignment across operating companies.
• Build a culture of accountability and collaboration within India’s distributed workforce.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering/delivery experience; with at least 5+ in leadership roles
• Proven ability to manage distributed teams at scale, including micro-teams or single engineers.
• Strong technical foundation (engineering, DevOps, or architecture background preferred).
• Experience creating playbooks, processes, or frameworks for global delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills across geographies.
• Ability to juggle multiple operating company engagements in parallel with structured prioritization.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at Banyan:

Banyan affirms that inequality is detrimental to our Global Teams, associates, our Operating Companies, and the communities we serve. As a collective, our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions. Together, we unite for equality and equity. Banyan is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic, including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, or protected veteran status and will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of a disability. We support an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.