Delivery Manager
Posted 1 week ago by Hays
£140,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Technical Delivery Manager will oversee the delivery of complex IT projects primarily in the energy and financial services sectors, working closely with clients and internal teams. This role requires strong interpersonal skills and technical expertise to ensure successful project outcomes. The position emphasizes collaboration, leadership, and the ability to manage agile teams effectively. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software development and agile methodologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee all aspects of bespoke software development, including planning, leading, organizing, and motivating agile teams.
- Manage delivery of one or more projects with consultants across multiple sites in the UK, US, and India.
- Engage in commercial activities such as workshops, proof of concepts, and pre-sales meetings.
- Collaborate with management to resolve issues and act as an escalation point for project teams and clients.
- Ensure accurate billing for clients against resource plans.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in delivering software development solutions using Agile methodologies.
- Experience across various platforms, including data and multi-cloud environments.
- Working exposure in Energy, Commodities, and preferably Financial services.
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models and agile principles (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
- Strong academic background in Computer Science, typically achieving 2.1 or above.
- Excellent people leadership skills with experience in hiring and motivating technical talent.
Salary (Rate): £140,000.00 yearly
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Technical Delivery Manager | Software Development | Client Facing | Scrum, Kanban, Azure/AWS, Java, CI/CD, Microservices, Architecture
Your new company
An opportunity has arisen to work for an award-winningSoftware and data engineering consultancy. For the past 23 years, they havehelped leading organisations change and transform their businesses by buildingand delivering high-value bespoke technology. They work with a variety oforganisations across financial services, energy and commodities sectors.
Your new role
A Technical Delivery Manager is required to join the organisation to work closely with organisations in the energy and commodities sector. You will work alongside highly collaborative, forward-thinking technologists who enjoy working in an environment that values continuous learning and getting results. Working closely with the CTO, Delivery Teams and CEO, you will be responsible for the delivery of complex IT projects for clients, predominantly in the energy and financial services sector. The role is very people-centric; you must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise effectively across all levels of stakeholders to ensure that projects are smoothly delivered. You will demonstrate your credibility in dealing with our clients through your technical experience and up-to-date knowledge of the modern frameworks, enterprise development patterns and tools/techniques currently in use.
Key duties will include
- Overseeing all aspects of bespoke software development; responsibilities will include planning, leading, organising and motivating small agile teams to achieve a high level of performance.
- Delivery management of one or more projects, with a team of consultants potentially operating across multiple sites, spread across the UK, US and India.
- Commercial activity e.g. workshops, running proof of concepts and pre-sales meetings.
- You will work closely within the management team to resolve issues and will act as an escalation point for your project teams and your clients.
- Ensuring clients are billed accurately against resource plans.
What you'll need to succeed
- Strong experience of delivering software development solutions (both greenfield and brownfield), utilising Agile development methodologies
- Experience working across a range of platforms, encompassing aspects of data, multi-cloud exposure and more, where you can demonstrate technical creativity to deliver solutions that exceed our clients' expectations.
- Working exposure/experience in Energy, Commodities and preferably Financial services
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models and multiple agile development principles and practices. Examples include Scrum, Kanban, Nexus, SAFe, LESS and DSDM. This is backed up by a strong academic record, typically achieving 2.1 or above in Computer Science at degree and/or post-graduate studies.
- Client-focused, positive, creative and driven to work collaboratively to find the right technology solution for our client's business.
- Excellent people leadership skills - you have proven experience of hiring strong technical talent, motivating people and creating healthy, productive and ethical teams.
What you'll get in return
- Strong basic salary of £100,000-140,000K
- Bonus of up to 10%
- Several other benefits
- Hybrid working
What you need to do now
Call Lorenz Pasch at Hays Recruitment ASAP on 07863107173 , or connect and send me a message on LinkedIn
Client facing experience and Software Development background required
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