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# Application Development Manager

- **Company:** Milestone Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Code Review, Software Engineering, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/2e145ffb-eb06-41a4-8f9c-872dd14c06a5

## About the Role

* 12+ years engineering or delivery management experience across multi-team software programs
 * Strong grasp of sprint delivery health metrics, capacity planning and staffing management
 * Experience setting and enforcing engineering quality standards across concurrent teams
 * Must be technically stronger than a Technical Lead, with hands-on experience in modern application development, system design, architecture oversight, code reviews, and production issue resolution
 * Comfortable owning release-readiness and launch-position verification processes
 * Proven ability to mentor Technical Leads and senior engineers while remaining hands-on enough to challenge solution choices and guide implementation quality
 * Experience escalating and resolving delivery risk in a client-facing engagement

Preferred qualifications

 * Experience managing staffing/backfill across a 25+ person delivery organization
 * Familiarity with AI/RAG delivery quality standards specifically, B.Tech/B.E. in Computer Science or a related field, MBA preferred, or equivalent practical experience; PMP or PgMP certification an advantage.

## Description

Leads delivery execution across the three delivery teams while operating as a senior, hands-on technical leader above Technical Lead level. The role requires strong engineering depth, active involvement in technical decision-making, sprint delivery health, capacity and staffing management, engineering quality standards, and cross-team dependency resolution., * Own sprint delivery health, capacity planning and staffing management across all three teams

 * Set and enforce engineering quality standards across the delivery organization
 * Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture decisions, design reviews, code-quality practices, and complex engineering issue resolution
 * Resolve cross-team dependencies alongside the Agile Coach (RTE)
 * Coordinate release readiness and launch-position verification against the SOW's committed deliverables
 * Act as the primary delivery-management escalation point before issues are elevated to the Client Service Organization


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