Technical Delivery Manager

Barclays UK; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to oversee complex technical projects. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership and analytical skills while managing resource allocation and ensuring high-quality delivery. This role emphasizes collaboration and change management, utilizing Agile methodologies and AWS tooling. The position allows for flexibility in working from offices across Northampton, Glasgow, and Knutsford.

Qualifications

• Experience managing and delivering large-scale technical projects.
• Strong understanding of data architecture concepts and principles.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of complex technical projects across the bank.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to implement customer trails.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with technical projects.

Skills

Leadership experience

Analytical experience

Change management

Tools

Agile methodologies

AWS platforms/tooling

Job description

Join us at Barclays as a Technical Delivery Manager. We are seeking a skilled project delivery professional to lead the successful execution of large-scale technical initiatives across the bank. This role involves working closely with internal teams and external partners to understand their needs and ensure seamless delivery of software products on time, within budget and to the quality standards.

To be successful as a Technical Delivery Manager you should have experience with:

• Leadership experience, taking accountability for delivery, building relationships and motivating cross-functional teams.
• Analytical Experience, applying sound reasoning and judgment to solve complex technical and business problems.
• Change Management experience, leading data or technology transformations through to completion, ideally using Agile methodologies.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Understand how the bank operates and can apply strategic thought to decision making.
• Experience with the concept of Data Products and AWS Platforms/Tooling.
• Understanding of data architecture concepts and principles.

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.

This role has the option to work from the following offices: Northampton, Glasgow and Knutsford.

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 elevate 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.