Technical Delivery Manager, Remote Ukraine

Project Description

The programme is an enterprise-wide effort delivering a new Customer Identity and Access Management system for a large financial institution which symbolizes the evolution of Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting into a modern-day Identity and Access Management stack.

A Technical Delivery Manager is required to lead the New Initiatives and Integration programmes. The role will report into the Delivery Director and Business Operations. This is an excellent opportunity for you to join a thriving team in what is a highly visible area at present. Giving you the chance to work with some exciting new technology, alongside working on multiple on-going projects for a world-renowned financial services organisation.

The role is accountable for the delivery of a large-scale technical transformation project consisting of 5-10 scrum teams located in various locations around the globe.

Responsibilities

• Leadership – Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QA and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• Planning – Accountable for all technology planning activities, including ensuring scrum teams have healthy sprint plans with reasonable backlog, preparation and delivery of the quarterly PI planning activities. Work closely with Workstream Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall workstream plans and roadmaps
• Ensuring full engagement of relevant architects to provide solution design and overall architecture alignment
• Technology delivery – lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end-to-end delivery chain
• Dependency management – Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Risk and Issue Management – Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Team performance – Work closely with the Scrum Masters and Vendor management (where required) and QA to ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughput and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making – sound judgment at a senior management level using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner
• Governance – Manage any workstream technology team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery
• Reporting – Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI’s and OKR’s for your teams
• Communication – Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency
• Financial Management and Project Accounting – Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals

Skills

Must have

• Must have experience in running scaled agile teams
• Must have agile experience
• Must have experience working in an agile transformation environment
• Experience of setting up and working on a Greenfield Programme of work
• Proven experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity
• Strong financial and resource management, working with budgets and running large, global teams
• A software delivery background would be highly beneficial due to the technical nature of the deliverables
• Extensive stakeholder management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a complex, high-paced environment with a global team
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• A real self-starter with the ability to drive and make clear and prompt decisions and solve problems, generating solutions and ultimately getting the job done
• A Bachelor’s degree in an IT related field would be highly beneficial

Nice to have

• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Top Tier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority

Senior

Relocation package

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