Technical Delivery Manager

Barclays; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Business Banking is seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to oversee the successful delivery of large-scale technical projects. The role involves collaboration with various teams and stakeholders to meet project objectives aligned with strategic goals. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, as well as experience in data-driven environments.

Qualifications

• Excellent organization, management, planning and delivery skills in an agile environment.
• Expert leadership and team management skills.
• Stakeholder management at senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing planning, execution, and delivery of large technical projects.
• Management of technical project capabilities using Agile methodologies.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organizational Skills

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Skills

Job description

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Step into the role of Technical DeliveryManager where you will be responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and delivery of data of large technical projects, programmes and capabilities initiatives, ensuring alignment with our strategic goals and objectives. This role requires strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality data products, the migration to advanced cloud technology and best in class customer outcomes as part of broader Barclays UK Data Strategy.

Priorities within CDAO (Chief Data & Analytics Office) are

• Instantiating a modern, controlled and secure BUK data foundation on Group Enterprise Data Platform providing cloud data warehousing, machine learning analytics, predictive servicing and data led commerce capabilities.
• Instantiate next generation data capabilities for BUK - cloud data warehousing and virtualisation, control capabilities, PII pipelines, access control, and lineage.
  
  

To be successful in this role, you should possess the following:

Essential Skills

• Excellent organisation, management, planning and e2e delivery skills, preferably within an agile, data-driven/digital environment.
• Advanced communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills to all levels
• Expert leadership and team management skills.
• Stakeholder management at senior levels. ( Director, Managing Director, CIO)
  
  

Desirable Skills

• Advanced influencing and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge and experience of cloud technology and industry leading data products
• Manage timelines, demand/supply, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery of data products.
• Advanced budgeting, financial planning, demand and capacity management, prioritisation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  
  

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

Location is Knutsford or Northampton

Purpose of the role

To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements.

Accountabilities

• Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
• Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
• Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
• Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.
  
  

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
  
  

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Banking

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