Senior Delivery Manager - Bristol, United Kingdom - The Curve Group

The Curve Group
The Curve Group
Verified Company
Bristol, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Senior Delivery Manager - Data & Analytics

About the client -


An opportunity to join the UK's number 1 'investment supermarket' for private investors who are trusted with more than £100 billion by over 1.4 million clients.

They are a secure, FTSE 100 company, based in the heart of Bristol now with over 1,700 peopleand a service to be proud of.

A growing company with a small company spirit and a great ethos, who are steered by their core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything they do.


About You:


As a Senior Deliver Manager, you are accountable for the effective delivery of complex, high-risk products and services through the whole delivery lifecycle.


A Senior Delivery manager will be accountable for:
- the performance of multiple teams/ Initiatives
- building and maintaining successful teams which are motivated and collaborative

  • Compliant with existing delivery standards
  • Shaping the delivery framework through its continuous delivery lifecycle

Role Overview


The Data & Analytics Programme is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager with a track record of delivering full lifecycle data orientated projects, managing multi-disciplined teams.

You will have hands-on experience of cloud projects and are familiar with either Microsoft or AWS products.

The role will see you accountable for the outputs from one or more development teams and will be the main point of escalation.

You will act as a role model within the discipline and wider community coaching/mentoring other Delivery Mangers.

While having the ability to drive a team of experts in a fast-paced environment and be fiercely passionate about data and what answers thisholds for the Business.


Role Accountabilities:


  • Leading the delivery efforts of autonomous teams in achieving delivery goals and high performance
  • Influences and drives multiple teams to the delivery of the business' outcomes
  • Influence and manages the priorities at the team level
  • Lead and build the delivery plan for complex initiatives/ Products by working with relevant stakeholders.
  • Continuously assess the team's approach and work with the Agile Coach to adapt planning tools, Agile methods, and communication to ensure a successful and sustainable delivery
  • Help define and drive the maturing of Delivery Assurance within the business.
  • Manage Products/Initiatives through all stages of the Delivery lifecycle
  • Be an advocate for transparency, pragmatism and using data to drive decisions
  • Proactively represent delivery to wider stakeholders advocate the delivery processes
  • Supports transparency and predictability across teams using appropriate tools and metrics consistently to describe to the business the progress being made against delivery
  • Mentors and coaches' direct reports and other in the team working closely with the communities of practise, to help them develop.
  • Advocate being outcome focused not output.
  • Manages the tracking of programme/project performance (finance/scope)
  • Leads efforts in being client focused
  • Good stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
  • Builds long term capability, through nurturing and promoting selforganisation, leading to an increased transparency and trust through autonomy, mastery and purpose.
  • Communally facilitate the centre of excellence for delivery
  • Defines best practice and advocate/influence adoption
  • Coordinate with Agile coach to promote Agile best practice and processes across teams
  • Encourage teams to improve through shared learning experiences and expanding their knowledge by being involved in community activities

Experience and Skills:


  • Experience of working on a cloud migration project, with working knowledge either Microsoft or AWS platform technologies
  • Able to understand technical deliveries and challenge at SMEs at a high level
  • Experience of leading large scale E2E Data projects
  • Significant experience in managing and maintaining core product/ Initiatives
  • Working with throughput metrics and being able to provide proactive forecasting
  • Demonstrable expertise and experience in working within agile environments
  • Experience of delivery in a software engineering environment within a continuous integration/delivery (CICD) environment
  • Successfully run agile deliveries through a delivery lifecycle of varying size and complexity from start to finish
  • Experience delivering for large scale multimillionpound products/Initiatives of work
  • Knowledgeable about different agile methodologies, their relevant to specific situations and expected benefits.
  • Experience in leading multidisciplinary agile teams though coaching, mentoring and collaboration to attain a delivery focus on outcomes.
  • Experience working closely with customers to understand, negotiate and adapt priority changes
  • Be responsible for thinking laterally and understand the impact of decisions to the wider environment
  • Be able to manage stakeholders, influence them to the correct result
  • Drive new ways of thinking within the business and tech teams
  • Pragmatic in the approach to work and drive the team along similar lines
  • Advocate on behalf of the team and department with wider stakeholder groups.
  • Ensure alignment of the Team's work with wider business priorities.
  • Lead other delivery managers to achieving programme goals
  • Experience of product/initiative related problem solving within a complex business environment with time constraints.
  • Experience in working with platform, service, and product teams where dependencies are complicated
  • Abreast of software development processes
  • Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
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