Delivery Manager

Kerv Digital for Digital Transformation; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Kerv Digital seeks a Delivery Manager to lead digital project delivery using Agile methodologies. This role involves working closely with stakeholders to manage project governance, cost, and team dynamics in a supportive and flexible work environment focused on impactful projects.

Benefits

Real Flexibility

Professional Development Support

Private Healthcare

Inclusive Working Environment

Qualifications

• Experience in IT project management using Agile methodologies.
• Ability to manage project cost and time effectively.
• Experience working with on/off-shore teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage an agile development process and Scrum ceremonies.
• Ensure effective governance structures are in place.
• Understand and deliver on client business needs.

Skills

Agile Delivery Management

Project Governance

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Job description

Delivery Manager

Salary: competitive depending upon experience + benefits

Where the jobisbased: (home-based, working with Kerv Digital office/customer site visits as required) UK HQ, Seven House, 18 High Street, Longbridge, B31 2UQ

Who we are:

Kerv Digital (previously known as cloudThing) solve complicated problems with great digital experiences. We combine Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data Science and Software Engineering to achieve measurable business outcomes for our clients. Headquartered in Birmingham and part of Kerv, we are part of a £50m revenue global organisation, with over 450 employees, working with over 800 sector-leading clients, with offices in London, Birmingham, and Bangalore.

Kerv is an ethically led organisation, and we are proud of our values. Our mission to Build Future and make a positive difference in society helps guide us to choose to work primarily with Nonprofit and Public Sector organisations. We encourage all our developers and designers to embrace the latest technologies, frameworks, and cloud deployment platforms to help our clients achieve more. We relish the difficult problems and integration challenges and guarantee our developers are never bored.

We are proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India. We can offer you an inclusive, collaborative atmosphere to develop your skills as part of a global multi-discipline development team with opportunities to be mentored by forward-thinking managers.

Join us today to work closely with household name clients, build your technical prowess, and make new friends along the way.

Who we are looking for:

The oft-sought, seldom found, inspired agile software, digital or IT delivery owner capable of ensuring we provide dazzling software and solutions across a huge array of technologies and platforms. You’ll be paired with a Solution Architect to take care of the technical wizardry on each project, along with a talented team of front and backend developers with support from the Technical Directors and Commercial Managers to boot.

All backgrounds will always be considered and experience here is far more important, we’re really open to Delivery Managers that have a solid transferable background that are looking to deliver a mix of well governed Business Transformation, Dynamics 365 delivery, Bespoke Development projects using our mature blend of agile and waterfall approaches and tools as appropriate. Ability to guide our clients through an Agile Scrum delivery and manage the Scrum ceremonies is essential.

Required Experience:

• Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business
• Creating and maintaining the environment in which the project will succeed
• Working with on/off-shore development/implementation teams
• Establishing and operating governance structures within projects to ensure effective decision making and robust assurance
• Managing project cost base and time tracking
• Identifying and delivering change control and project upsell
• Wrestling detailed requirements and designs into an implementable plan
• Managing an agile development process, including stewarding planning sessions, scrums and show and tell), working alongside our delivery managers
• Reporting project status to the cloudThing operations board and the client, effectively managing stakeholder expectations
• Software, Digital or IT Project Management using a structured Agile approach
• Excellent written and presentation skills, the ability to think on feet and make decisions
• Other tasks as reasonably requested(yes, our lawyers asked for that one)

We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is somethinglike;

• happiest working under their own direction, but fully supported when needed
• an obvious attention to detail, we want you to obsess about the little things!
• an escalation handler, able to achieve win-win outcomes by utilising the skills across the team
• ability to work effectively with remote teams in India
• ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

What we can do for you:

We’re atransparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believescompletelyin providingthe best possible work experiencefor our employee’s:

• RealFlexibility– we’rea family first organisation,andifthe work gets done,you can workwhen and whereveryou want.A healthyapproach for most of our unicorns (that’s this team)seems to besplittingthree ways between home, customersitesand the office.
• Awesome Environment–all of ouremployee’swill tell you that we foster aneasy goingenvironment,areexperts at whatwedo and care deeply about whatwework on– that’sin large part because the company was startedspecificallytofind a way for people totake more enjoyment fromtheir work.
• Interesting Work– these days most of our customers are household namesand many of our projects havean important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly includeworking withnot-for-profitstotransform how they leverage technology, workingwithpublic bodiestoshapedigitalservicesandworking withtop tierprivateentitiesto bringgenuinely new andmeaningful productsand servicesto market.
• Great Benefits– all the usual suspects and then some.Some highlights include ourchoose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, wellstockedcupboardswithtastygoodies(we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t gettrained on anywhere else andprivate healthcare. Fulldisclosure;somebenefits can onlybe provided afterprobation.
• Recognition& Growth– Certified as a Great Place to Work by independent assessors in both the UK and India and we’ve justentered the Sunday TimesTechTrack 100, which chartsthe top 100 fastest growing tech. companies in the country; weknow we achieved this directly through the people we choose to work with.

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We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer and determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, individual qualifications and work experience.

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