CTO Developer Platforms (DevP) Tech SME

TESTQ Technologies LTD.; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

TESTQ Technologies LTD. is seeking a Senior Programme Manager with 10+ years of experience to lead cross-functional initiatives within the CTO DevP Developer Platforms team.

You will drive the planning, delivery and rollout of large-scale applications, coordinating with internal tech teams, business users and third-party vendors to meet ambitious milestones. The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management and a proven ability to translate complex requirements into actionable

Qualifications

• Architectural diagrams, patterns and styles, SOA and microservices based architecture, software engineering and design architecture

Responsibilities

• Be proactive, collaborative member of the CTO DevP programme management team.
• Plan, mobilise and direct projects from definition to closure, balancing scope, schedule, budget, risks and benefits.
• Align projects with wider DevP change portfolio with delivery managers and product owners.
• Understand customer problems and needs related to the strategy for the function.
• Work with customers, developers and technical leads to develop solutions.
• Draw up functional requirements descriptions of systems, processes and designs.
• Test and validate results and sign off before go-live.
• Design for the customer; assess behavior and change impact; implement with minimal disruption.
• Collaborate with product owners, development teams, testers and vendors.
• Facilitate handovers, presentations and knowledge transfer.
• Experience in global organisations and distributed teams.
• Capture explicit/implicit requirements with users and sponsors.
• Analyze systems and user impact with engineers and stakeholders.
• Set up and manage testing, release support, handover to BAU.
• Contribute to improvements through innovative solutions.
• Communicate effectively and participate in idea exchanges.
• Strong understanding of PM methodologies and Agile/Scrum practice.
• Understand software delivery lifecycle.
• Ability to work across regions with a global perspective.
• Commitment to inclusive, diverse environment.

Skills

Architectural diagrams

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Tools

Job description

Senior 10+ years’ experience

• RequiredA proactive selfstarter who can seek out information and people to find solutions present options and drive delivery
• Experience with systemapp migrations cloud
• Strong analysis skills
• Experience working with APIs and APIweb application development teams
• Good communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Translates ideas into requirements and specifications that are easy to understand
• Experience documenting functional specifications agile stories and acceptance criteria process flow diagrams
• Jira Confluence MS Tools Business Transformation and Agile Methodologies
• Experience managing tech project teams to deliver change in a matrix environment including third party vendor resources
• Testing migration reconciliation transition to BAU
• Status reporting progress updates risks issues dependencies

OPTIONALNICE TO HAVE

• Experience overseeing testing for requirements
• Business process modelling flowcharting data flow diagrams
• MI reporting Budget experience
• Software delivery and software development lifecycle including rollout and adoption
• Familiar with technology controls

ABOUT THE PROJECT

• This role is within the DevP Developer Platforms team within CTO Chief Technology Office
• We build solutions that help improve the engineering experience around controls compliance and standards
• This is an exciting opportunity to build best in class solutions to benefit internal Technology customers
• The candidate will be responsible for project managing an application enhancement and rollout initiative This role will involve liaising with a number of internal technology and business customers to understand and meet their needs as well as working with the development teams themselves to deliver a feasible plan and to work with chosen third party vendor resources to deliver the required changes improvements
• The project is a large one covering multiple workstreams and impacts 1000s of users globally
• It involves engaging with various tech teams and business users and supporting their adoption of a new way of working whilst working with a delivery team to enhance upgrade the product

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

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• To be a proactive collaborative and inquisitive member of the CTO DevP programme management team
• Tech SMEs and Project managers in plan mobilise and direct projects from project definition to closure They are responsible for the end to end planning and delivery of one or more projects proactively balancing scope schedule budget risks team outcomes and benefits
• You will be responsible for working closely with the delivery managers and product owners to ensure alignment of their project with the wider change portfolio in DevP

This role will support our aims through

• Understanding customer problems and needs related to the strategy for the function
• Working with customers developers and technical leads to develop solutions to problems
• Drawing up functional requirements descriptions of systems processes and designs
• Involved in testing and validating tests results signoff prior to golive
• Design for the customer finding ways to understand customer behaviour the impact of changes on them and ways of implementing our changes with minimal impact
• Collaborate closely with the product owner customers development teams testers vendors
• Handovers presentations and knowledge transfer

SKILLS EXPERIENCE WE REQUIRE

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• To be successful in the role you should meet the following requirements
• Experience in working within a global organisation and globally distributed development teams
• Capturing explicit implicit requirements and defining appropriate solutions and options in combination with users sponsors and the wider Technology department
• Analysing systems and user impact in partnership with engineers and business stakeholders
• Experience of setting up and managing testing release support handover to BAU
• Contributing to improvements through innovative solutions approaches products or services
• Communicating ideas views and concerns effectively and respectfully and actively participates in exchanges of ideas with others
• Excellent communicator
• Excellent understanding of project management methodologies and best practice techniques
• Excellent understanding of agile methodologies particularly Scrum
• Understanding of software delivery lifecycle
• Strong understanding of how change drives benefits for customers and other stakeholders
• Proven ability to work across regions whilst maintaining a global perspective
• Additional information About the role optional is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued respected and opinions count
• We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development flexible working and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment

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Skills

Mandatory Skills : Architectural diagrams, Architecture Patterns and Styles, SOA and Microservices Based Architecture, Software Engineering and Design Architecture