Description
Delivery Manager needed for leading Buy Side client, with strong industry knowledge.
The Delivery Manager will work in close conjunction with a range of corporate customers, taking responsibility for effective and efficient software delivery. Proven experience in release management, project delivery and software implementation is essential.
You'll be responsible for technology project plans, controls and resource plans, and making sure the they're in line with any wider programme plans and controls. You'll maintain positive working relationships with stakeholders across multiple franchises and functions and at different levels of hierarchy, including respective technology or business project managers.
This opportunity is not an Ivory Tower Manager role, you will be in the trenches with the Developers, Test & BA's and be part of the team.
You will be engaging with clients, Embedded with the engineering teams - have strong experience of getting the job done - things will go wrong, clients will jump for answers, lead by example and most of all be outcome focused.
Empower and lead a team through the project life cycle, setting and monitoring team member objectives and carrying out regular coaching and formal appraisals alongside our management framework
Key experience
- Software project management
- Software release management
- Understanding of software development life cycle
- Requirements gathering, conveying customer requirements to technical teams for the effective delivery of software
- Managing expectations of demanding customers with often complex requirements
- Agile
- Continuous integration/continuous delivery
- Effective communicator with customers and internal stakeholders, both technical and non technical