Delivery Manager

Delivery Manager (Delivery Support) | 6-month contract | Inside IR35 | London and WFH

(Sanctions experience and payments experience)

LEVEL: Experienced 10 years +

My client is a corporate venture operating in the regulatory technology space. Its vision is to materially improve the effectiveness and efficiency of non-financial crime compliance for cross-border and domestic payments and reduce the overall level of friction in the global payment system.

The company is developing a set of API-based services that financial institutions will connect to allowing them to decommission their in-house legacy systems.

Backed by an industry consortium of financial service market leaders and equipped with decades of industry experience and advanced technologies, the company is well-positioned to become the leader in a fast-growing market and solve one of the most crucial challenges the financial services industry is facing.

The company is located in the Centre of London but a hybrid working model allows the diverse team to work remotely and schedule travel based on requirements.

What you’ll do

Reporting to the Delivery Lead

Responsible for:

– Successful end to end delivery of a key capability of the overall platform using the agreed ways of working

– Leadership of the capability delivery including coordination with the Product and Tech teams and delivery partners and chairing of delivery forums

– Working with the other Delivery Managers to actively manage dependencies between capabilities

– Ensuring completeness of the capability backlog including non-functional requirements

– Production and maintenance of a detailed plan and implementation of reporting to enable tracking of progress against plan

– Validating that delivery partners have adequate capacity to ensure the backlog for the capability is delivered in line with the overall delivery timeline

– Working with the wider delivery team and support the Delivery Lead to drive end to end feature delivery in line with the agreed product roadmap and release schedules

– Supporting the delivery partners to remove impediments and roadblocks to throughput and release schedules

– Supporting the Test and Release Management Leads to ensure timely deployment of features into the different test phases and Production

What you’ll need

* Minimum 10 years’ experience in a delivery management role (Mandatory)

* Minimum 5 years’ complex platform software delivery experience including successful delivery of a major programme (Mandatory)

* Experience of building and maintaining high performing teams (Mandatory)

* Experience of delivery planning and execution including dependency management (Mandatory)

* Experience of full software delivery lifecycle from product requirement through to release and support (Mandatory)

* Experience of defining key milestone and reporting progress against plan (Mandatory)

* Experienced with a range of software delivery lifecycle toolsets (Mandatory)

* Experience of working in waterfall and agile IT development environments (Mandatory)

* Experience of working within an Agile Frameworks such as LESS and or SAFe and adapting to meet the way of working (Mandatory)

* Experience of managing a distributed team (Mandatory)

* Experience of performing strategic supplier management and management of delivery partner resource (Desirable)

* Fluent in written and spoken business English (Mandatory)

Characteristics

* Strong leadership, facilitation, and communication skills

* Pro-active issue and risk management approach

* Expert problem management and solution-orientated

* Flexibility able to adapt to rapidly changing situations

* Able to balance apparent conflicting priorities and conflict to find simple solutions

* Resilient, able to provide positive clear direction in high-stress situations, inspiring others

* Attention to detail

* Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills

* Approachability

* Tenacious, delivery-focused and results-driven

* Interest in working in a fast-paced and future-oriented multicultural environment

* Willingness to work outside of normal business hours, and as unique projects/needs arise

* Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment.

* Willingness to travel to delivery partner sites

* Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday