Head of Delivery Manchester remote (work from home)
Company
We are a fast growing, Manchester based, AWS consultancy partner catering to businesses in the energy sector, with a reputation for success. Our success has led to repeat business and a solid customer base.
We truly care about our people and strive for diversity, inclusion and encourage a positive work / life balance.
We are offering the opportunity to be part of a world-class team, solving complex IT problems for the energy industry and working on innovative, cloud native applications and products.
Our business offers a variety of challenges, and the opportunity to learn new skills along the way from an amazing team. Furthermore, you will be part of a team that will make a significant impact on the business for years to come.
What you can expect from us
- Flexible working arrangements including remote (work from home) or from our Head office in Manchester
- Great benefits package
- Supportive leadership
- A highly-skilled workforce with a solid track record of successful delivery
- A company that is committed to continuous improvement and open to suggestion - If you can think of a better way to do something, tell us and let’s give it a go
- No micro management, we trust you to be responsible and accountable for your workload
- Constantly learning and implementing new technologies
- An ever-evolving tech stack
- Working on a mix of greenfield development and re-architecting legacy applications onto AWS
Head of Delivery
Your primary responsibility will be to build strong working relationships with our clients so that you can coordinate the activity across internal and external teams. Ensuring that critical path activities are understood and delivered on. Working on multiple time horizons you will communicate progress on things currently with the squads for delivery and be working with the clients to ensure enough work is being prepared to keep the squads fully utilised. You will manage handoff between squads ensuring minimal wait times. There may be an occasional requirement to have out of hours discussions with our client’s customers who are based in different time zones.
Job knowledge and experience
- This is a client facing role so the experience of building excellent relationships is essential, in order to seek out opportunities to up sell and cross sell our services. The ability to manage the client and at times our client’s customers, managing expectation and where necessary coordinate their activity
- Coordinate activity across multiple squads to ensure squads are fully utilised and things do not fall between the gap where handoffs exist
- Clearly communicate project status to all relevant stakeholders
- Build good relationships with the team
- Supporting new business development opportunities
- Line management of squad line managers – appreciation, coaching, evaluation
- Project mgmt. – Manage scope creep but embrace change, clearly communicate timelines and progress, solve problems or escalate where necessary, track critical path deadlines and provide reporting metrics
- Coordinate activity for the delivery of projects across the development team
- Knowing the skills of the team and matching skills to the tasks
- Comfortable working across multiple projects at the same time
- Worked to Agile principles
Technical skills
- Interpreting the overall plan and joining the dots so that the team can deliver the detailed plan
- Agile culture clearly focused on Quality and continuous improvement
- Knowledge of Kanban methodology and processes
- Able to engage with a technical team to get work completed to the right standards
- Experience of System migration projects will be essential
- Experience of working in successful multi squad development environment
- Knowledge of the Energy industry
- AWS business accreditation
Behaviours
- Customer focused taking ownership and personal responsibility for delivery
- Build relationships, manage and sustain complex relationships
- Creating a culture of an Agile mindset in terms of delivery and quality
- Ability to ask the right questions, solve problems, understand a new industry and its processes
- Interpreting the overall plan and joining the dots so that the team can deliver the detailed plan- taking the complex and breaking it down in manageable pieces for the team
- Pragmatic flexible approach to delivery
- Solution focused logical approach
- Facilitate workshops, discussions and requirement gathering so that the definition of done is clear to everyone
- Manage delivery and prioritisation of activity and resources across the project
- Manage the flow for delivery by each squad
- Desire and curiosity to understand the technical details
Outcomes
- Be the focal point of client communication and interaction by building strong relationships with the client
- Clear priority of work to be completed – not starting new work before finishing inflight work
- Creating a focus and direction for the activity between us and our client
- Ability to meet deadlines measured by
- Keeping the work flowing through to done – reduced wait times, team fully utilised
- Reducing concurrent workstreams
- Operationally deliver on the goals set in the timescales required - get stuff done
- Continuous improvement metrics – velocity, retrospectives, reduce standard deviation
- Engender a culture of team responsibility to deliver
- Weekly communication of project status
Process
This role is top priority and we are looking to appoint a Head of Delivery ASAP
Whilst Head office is based in Manchester, this role is a remote (work from home) role and we will accept applicants form anywhere in the UK.
Telephone interview Screening call to assess fit with Reedmace Solutions
1st interview Formal interview to discuss your background and fit
2nd interview Competency based technical interview
Psychometric testing