Delivery Lead - Banking experience

Purpose:

• The Release engineer/ Delivery Lead will provide critical thinking and a high degree of Technical innovation and attention to detail, while being recognised as a trusted advisor to the team and stakeholders.
• Characteristics include being versatile, displaying leadership qualities and enthusiasm to coordinate and facilitate change across the full SDLC, ultimately assisting in moving technology forward
• This role is also a servant leader and coach for wider team and supports the implementation of new and better ways of working using Agile frameworks and methods.
• Delivery Lead should have experience working with Real time budgeting, Functional mapping, Process Mapping, Project management, Scrum and Agile Methodology.

Essential capabilities

• Delivery & Risk Management on Tech projects
• Project Management
• Customer Focus
• Collaborates
• Plans & Aligns
• Budget Management
• Decision Quality
• Strategic Mindset
• Cultivates Innovation
• Demonstrates Self Awareness
• Being Resilient
• Excellent documentation and communication skills, stakeholder management
• Focus on quality and detail.
• Risk, dependencies, roadblock management
• PI planning and execution
• Business Analysis

Experience

• 12+ years technology experience
• Software delivery technical skills such as CI/CD, Automated Deployments, Automated Testing, Build Servers etc
• Change, Incident and Risk management experience
• Experienced with delivering technology solutions through to production environments frequently
• Service Now and Rally/JIRA Experience
• Experience across Agile and adaptive delivery models, mindsets & tools
• Track record of strong experience operating effectively and delivering consistent results in a large complex business
• Strong understanding of digital technologies, analytics and business process-based solutions
• Workflow / process management tools like Pega experience desirable

Other capabilities

• Able to navigate a large complex organisation & build relationships with Senior stakeholders using informal and formal networks
• Large scale shaping and delivery experience within complex environments
• Strong strategic planning capabilities

Key Accountabilities:

• Facilitate synchronisation & execution across diverse set of Agile development teams to ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Keep key stakeholders informed of overall progress against the release commitments
• Provide coaching to help resolve process issues across the release train
• Facilitate with prioritisation, sequencing. Actively manager and shift priorities as required including back-out & recovery plans, code environments and code dependencies
• Arrange and facilitating implementation logistics.
• Manage dependencies across squads and remove roadblocks to drive outcomes with product owners and business stakeholders.
• Escalation point for dealing with issues, risks and removing bottlenecks/impediments
• Manage and optimise releases to available capacity through driving Feature/ Epic & Story estimation, prioritisation and delivery
• Ensuring execution is in sync with strategy

Key Performance Indicators:

• Delivery of committed change to production with no impact & minimised outage
• Proactively manage risk, meeting all policy and compliance requirements; perform controls; adhere to process and procedures pertinent to role; and escalate events, issues or breaches as they are identified
• Implementation of prioritised change outcomes aligned to domains and achievement of associated KPI’s.
• Features planned vs features delivered
• Improve the flow of work in agile release train

Key Decisions:

• Integration and sequencing of changes including understanding code dependencies
• Decisions pertaining to the flow of work across multiple releases
• Chair & facilitate Change Governance Forums including scope change
• Fostering collaboration
• Facilitating solution demos, synchronization between teams

Key Interfaces:

• Business aligned division (Domain Owner teams)
• Technology change and run teams
• Product Management
• System Architecture
• Business Stakeholders