• Own end-to-end delivery of software developed by the POD, ensuring timely releases that meet agreed-upon business requirements and quality standards. • Partner with business owners to define priorities, clarify requirements, and align deliverables with strategic objectives. • Monitor progress against commitments, proactively addressing risks, dependencies, and resources constraints. • Ensure that solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable leveraging best practices / patterns / standards of design and architecture. • Lead, mentor, and inspire the POD team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement (through experimentation and learning). • Manage staffing; including recruitment, performance management, and professional development for direct and dotted-line resources. • Drive adoption of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automated testing to maintain high-quality releases. • Provide technical coaching and professional development opportunities for team members to enhance their skills, knowledge, and career growth. • Serve as the primary liaison between the POD and business stakeholders when there are escalations from the product owner (or team). • Proactively collaborate with other development managers to resolve cross-team dependencies and maintain alignment with enterprise technology strategy. • Other duties as assigned.