Technical Delivery Lead

Summary: The Technical Delivery Lead is responsible for leading the technical transformation and delivery of the Non-Financial Regulatory Reporting platform, collaborating with engineering teams, operations partners, and third-party vendors. This role emphasizes technical delivery rather than project management, requiring a strong understanding of software development and technology platform migration. The position is a 12-month contract based in Farringdon, London, with a hybrid working arrangement. The pay rate ranges from £40 to £45 per hour and is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for technology delivery of the platform migration project from pre-project to implementation
• Responsible for Leading multiple delivery streams to deliver successful project outcomes
• Plan, track and manage budgets & resources
• Vendor management SOWs, budgets, invoice approvals, resource onboarding/offboarding and governance through regular governance meetings
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to team
• Partnering with business stakeholders, architects to understand business requirements and low-level technical design
• Plan, manage, track delivery through a combination of agile tools and traditional planning tools where required to ensure overall delivery across all streams are sequenced and tracked
• Ensure risks are pro-actively managed and highlighted in right forums to seek support for resolution
• Deliver project in guidance and adherence to Banks software delivery, security, release management standard & guidelines.
• Ensure all deliverables, checkpoints are planned and delivered to meet the banks standards and quality gates
• Pro-active planning on development dependencies and plan and track them to closure
• Ensure quality standards are built into the development phase with a quality first approach
• Measure and monitor progress and quality using data-oriented approach
• Participate in scrum of scrums and cross stream meetings to discuss, highlight dependencies across systems.
• Conduct regular checkpoints (daily scrums, weekly project meetings) and track actions to closure
• Put in change management processes to manage and deliver agreed business outcomes
• During test phases, actively drive defect fixes to meet SLAs. measure and manage defect density, re-open rates
• Promote a culture of inclusiveness and have active participation from the team during team meetings and standups.
• Identify areas of improvement from each sprint and work towards continuous improvement to improve sprint velocity and quality

Key Skills:

• 12+ yrs SDLC experience with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects.
• At least 5 years' experience in managing large scale projects & building applications from scratch using APIs, data marts and cloud-based products.
• Strong project/program management skills.
• Should have prior experience in managing virtual teams in onsite/offshore model.
• Should have a development background and the right level of experience and expertise to coach and design, plan and deliver complex applications.
• Agile execution expertise.
• Ability to work under pressure and strict deadlines.
• Own overall delivery and drive teams velocity.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Go-getter with a keen focus on delivery.

Salary (Rate): £45 per hour

City: Farringdon

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT