Delivery Lead

TP ICAP; Belfast; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is hiring a Delivery Manager in Belfast to oversee the delivery pipeline and manage teams. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in financial services and possess strong skills in Agile methodologies, team coordination, and risk management. This role involves facilitating communication between stakeholders, ensuring project timelines are met, and guiding remote teams towards successful outcomes. Join a dynamic team dedicated to delivering technology change for a global client base.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Delivery Manager or similar role in financial services.
• Strong understanding of agile and lean principles.
• Experience managing remote teams across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Drive planning, estimation, and coordination of the team's technical roadmap.
• Manage change control and communicate with stakeholders.
• Serve as Scrum Master where appropriate and perform line manager duties.

Skills

Agile Delivery Manager

Scrum Master

Team Coordination

Risk Management

Stakeholder Communication

Job description

Role Overview

This role sits within the Rates & FX Delivery team and is part of TP ICAP Technology. It is a key role in our ability to provide valuable on-target implementations of business requirements to our global customer base. As Delivery Manager, you will own TP ICAPs delivery pipeline and manage / support teams of employees and vendors in their effort to deliver. You are expected to work closely with peers and team leads on dependency management and removal of impediments to optimise team efficiency and throughput.

An understanding of derivatives and trading platforms is a key requirement for the role.

Role Responsibilities

Drive planning, estimation and coordination of the team’s technical roadmap and its execution

Ensure that realistic delivery roadmaps are maintained and ensure regular and accurate communication to stakeholders

Identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the project

Implement, evaluate and continually improve the team’s product development workflow, artefacts and events

Manage change control and ensure that schedule-impacting or cost-impacting changes are surfaced to stakeholders and approved / signed off

Where appropriate / required, serve as Scrum Master in the delivery team

Where appropriate / required, perform line manager duties

Provide coordination between cross functional departments included but not limited to Technology

Adapt quickly to learn the processes, systems and products of TP ICAP

Ability to work with business SMEs as well as project and IT representatives

Facilitate workshops and working groups to elicit easily understandable outputs

Provide support during User Acceptance Testing

Work with business stakeholders (sponsors, business managers, broking staff and delivery teams) to deliver technology change

Capture and agree requirements, estimate resource effort / costs and document benefits to seek appropriate levels of approval

Support strategic business and change management objectives

Organise meetings, setting agendas and taking minutes as necessary

Manage ad‑hoc tasks as required

Experience / Competences

Essential

Substantial experience (5+ years) working as an Agile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, Delivery Manager or similar role in a financial services organisation

Strong understanding of agile and lean principles, with the ability to coach teams on the principles behind Agile and facilitate actual change in outlook and behaviour

Budget accountability for projects / programmes over £1m plus

Direct experience of managing remote teams, augmented teams and vendor teams across multiple time zones

Able to forecast team capacity considering vacations, planned sick leaves, availability, holidays, etc and makes it available for sprint / increment / release planning

Facilitates all estimation sessions to have the needed input for building realistic delivery schedules

Identifies dependencies with input from teams, communicate them in the appropriate format, and actively manages dependencies (internal or external) within teams to minimise waste

Ensures that requirements / backlog items are prioritised, and schedule is derived from business priorities, so the most value‑adding features / epics / specs are scheduled first in the delivery pipeline

Good team player with positive attitude and excellent written and oral communication skills

Strong decision‑making skills and the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines, results oriented with personal accountability

Demonstrates high standards of professional behaviour in dealings with clients, colleagues and staff.

Desired

Experience of financial / trading platforms and knowledge of financial markets

Legal Requirements

The company is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.