Delivery Manager

Experis - ManpowerGroup; England; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking an experienced Delivery Manager for a remote role. You will coordinate multiple teams, manage financial aspects, and deliver value across projects. The ideal candidate should have strong AWS and Kubernetes skills and the ability to translate technical concepts for stakeholders. A hands-on leadership approach and experience in agile environments are essential. This is a 6-month engagement with a daily rate of £640.

Qualifications

• Ability to balance multiple priorities and coordinate across delivery teams.
• Experience working at senior leadership level, establishing stakeholder networks.
• Strong financial management skills to prioritize business needs.
• Creating and maintaining an overall delivery plan with estimates and forecasts.
• Experience in technology delivery and translating technical concepts to stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze key metrics to improve team delivery.
• Understanding governance within a delivery context.
• Experience as a Delivery Manager across delivery lifecycles.
• Working within an agile context using CI.
• Ability to articulate logical design translating to physical infrastructure.

Skills

AWS

Cloud Formation or Terraform

Nginx

Linux administration

Packer

Collaboration tools (Git, Jira, Confluence)

Kubernetes

Docker

Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault)

Job description

Role Title: Delivery Manager
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Remote
Rate: £640 Per Day - Umbrella only
Active SC Required:

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role purpose / summary

Must have – Base technologies

• AWS
• Cloud Formation or Terraform
• Nginx
• Linux administration
• Packer
• Collaboration tools (Git, Jira, Confluence, etc)
• Be SC Clearable

Must have – Advanced technologies

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault, etc)

Skills

• Ability to balance multiple priorities and coordinate across delivery teams to deliver value
• Working at senior leadership level across the organisation, establishing stakeholder networks and actively engaging other senior leaders
• Strong financial management skills in order to leverage budget and prioritise business needs
• Creating and maintaining an overall delivery plan that highlights forecasts/estimates and confidence levels, whilst taking into account multiple individual delivery plans
• Using experience of technology delivery and technical practices to help translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Applying previous experience to identify, understand and analyse key metrics in order to improve team delivery
• Sufficiently understanding an organisation to identify the right people who can make the right decisions and at the right time, defining what good governance looks like within a delivery context
• Acting as the Delivery Manager for one or more delivery teams at the same time through a complete delivery lifecycle (prepare, deliver, improve)
• Working within an agile context with the use of CI
• Articulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure
• Experience with defining and working with the constraint of NFRs such as cost, scalability, availability
• The must have skills will determine how well they will be able to integrate into our way of working and the principals we use when making strategic and long-term decisions.

Nice to have: Technologies

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault, etc)
• Other networking technologies

Nice to have: Skills

• Complex technical delivery across multiple workstreams
• Adapting approaches to different phases of a delivery lifecycle
• Understanding what good governance looks like and how to implement improvements
• Programme/Portfolio delivery
• Communicating and Influencing

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!