Development Manager Location: Kaplan India
Reports to: Head of Applications, Engineering & Architecture
Full-time

Kaplan International Pathways is a leading provider of global education, centered around our students.
Technology is at the heart of what we do, and delivery discipline matters because we operate across
We are seeking a strategic and technical Development Manager to join our Application Engineering and
This role is unique: you will own the 'production line' of our software delivery.
While we have multiple distributed development teams shipping code, we need to eliminate friction and
As the Development Manager you will work intimately with the QA Manager, Solution Architects,
Your mission is to streamline our development cycle through
lightweight governance, automation, and artificial intelligence.
Coordinate release schedules across concurrent, distributed development teams to prevent
environment contention and deployment collisions.

- that inter-team dependencies are resolved before deployment day.
- your pipelines, preventing low-quality code from blocking the flow for other high-performing

Pipeline Governance & Policy-as-Code:
• Drive the implementation of 'Policy-as-Code' and automated quality gates to catch issues early
(Shift Left),



ensuring that no non-compliant build ever reaches production.

- automated, low-friction paths for low-risk changes.
- Move us away from heavy manual governance for standard changes, enabling high-trust teams

Essential Skills & Experience
• Demonstrable experience managing software delivery in a complex, multi-team setting
(managing interdependencies between distinct Scrum teams or 3rd party vendors).
• Trunk-Based Development),
semantic versioning, and the ability to resolve complex merge/deployment conflicts.
• Practical, hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (ArgoCD/Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub
A proven track record of reducing cycle time (lead time for changes) and deployment failure
Strong ability to negotiate with Dev Leads and Project Managers to ensure adherence to our
Desirable Skills & Experience
• Experience enforcing code quality and release standards on external/offshore development
Experience using tools to visualise flow metrics (e.g., CI/CD & DevOps: ArgoCD, Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions.

- Cloud Providers: AWS and Azure ecosystems.
- Observability: OTEL (OpenTelemetry), RED method monitoring.
- Salesforce (and satellite services), Microsoft 365, Standard Web Applications.

📌 Development Monitoring Director (Bengaluru)
🏢 Kaplan
📍 Bengaluru