**Technical Delivery Manager** (Contract)
Duration: 12 Months (Possibility for extension)
Location: Leeds/Manchester/Hybrid (2 days per week on site)
Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate or Salary is available for suitable candidates
Role Profile
Within the Group Infrastructure Services portfolio our Data Centre Strategy LAB has been charged with defining and provisioning data centre capability to support the Groups future needs.
The work involves building a new data centre, making it operational from an IT perspective and pairing it with the existing Horizon data centre. This will then allow the centralization of all our IT services delivering a simplified and more sustainable service for the future.
As a Technical Delivery Manager, you will be key to the delivery of IT Networks to support the new data centre in opening for business.
Role Responsibilities:
- Provide effective implementation of IT Network projects, engaging key IT SMEs to ensure partners are advised of the introduction or migration of impacted systems and the technical capability is in place to support potential incidents
- Drive projects forward using technical knowledge to aid decision making in the design and implementation phases
- Deliver strong outcomes in the form of hitting key deadlines and risk remediations within established agile project management frameworks
- Identify candidates for process improvement, developing a plan and delivering as part of a wider Change Management programme
- Successfully deliver within defined risk management frameworks, ensuring the Bank is not unnecessarily exposed to adverse influences
- Deliver excellence, utilising the Bank's existing development framework to provide opportunities and embed knowledge
Skills & Experience:
- Experienced in managing complex projects, building and delivering against plans
- Proven track record of implementing and leading improvements through the project lifecycle ideally in a Data Centre environment
- Promotion and embedding of project management methodologies and governance frameworks in line with Group Project Management Standards
- Experience of taking projects through a governed process into a live environment to introduce service in an expedient but safe manner
- Excellent organisation, communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to deliver projects/workstreams using Bank-defined standards, including Agile with experience of using Jira and Confluence for day-to-day management of activities
- Ensure compliance with key governance policies, such as Service Introduction, Implementation Readiness Reviews, with auditable results shared through Jira
- Risk and issue management - identifying threats to project delivery and instigate recovery actions
- Own project finances to ensure delivery is achieved within budget
- Maintain a resource-based view of project, ensuring that you have the right resources with the right capabilities to make sure you succeed
Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role 'apply now' to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.
We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.
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