Technical Delivery Manager

Whitehall Resources Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technical solutions provider is seeking a Technical Delivery Manager for a 6-month contract based in Scotland. The ideal candidate will manage project delivery using Agile methodology and lead collaboration across teams. Key skills include experience with software systems development and exposure to DevOps practices. Travel is expected in this role.

Qualifications

• Proven years of experience in Services: software systems development and commissioning.
• Familiarity with Energy Management Systems (EMS) or Distribution Management Systems (DMS) preferred.
• Experience working with offshore teams is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure coordination with teams including Solution Design and Global Delivery Centers.
• Own the project’s Delivery Model and act as Technical Leader.
• Build Work Breakdown Structures and track activity progress.
• Optimise deployment processes with Continuous Integration and Deployment.

Skills

Technical knowledge and experience

Proven experience in software systems development

DevOps and Agile methodology

Familiar with Atlassian suite, JIRA

Highly collaborative

Ability and willingness to travel

Tools

TFS

SVN

GitHub

Job description

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Technical Delivery Manager

Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a Technical Delivery Manager based in Scotland for an initial 6 month contract.

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Job Spec:
This mission (Technical Delivery Manager) is to ensure coordination with implementation Services teams including Solution Design, Application experts, Configuration Management, Solution Integration, Engineering and Global Delivery Centers, and work closely with the client.

Main Responsibilities:

* The Technical Delivery Manager owns the project’s Delivery Model and is the Technical Leader on the Project, working with highly skilled teams to manage and execute software development, deployment, configuration and operational testing.
* Project Execution control: Building effective Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), activity tracking to update Project Manager on progress, implementing the delivery with Agile methodology when applicable with direct contribution on Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master or Product Owner roles & responsibilities.
* Share responsibility with the Project Manager (PM), through close coordination, for scope management (change requests assessment), risk management and problem management.
* Optimising the deployment process, implementing Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Test automation process with the DevOps teams.
* Contribute to Customer management activities for technical coordination establishing trust meeting delivery commitments, together with the Project Manager who owns the Customer relationship.
* Drive excellence in execution through continuous improvement and change management. Implement software delivery performance measurement indicators.
* Performance Measurement: On Time Delivery, Committed budget (effort) deviation, Software Delivery Processes Compliance, Customer Satisfaction-------> to be filled based on key responsibilities

Key Skills:

* Technical knowledge and experience is expected in the following domains:
* Proven years of experience in Services: software systems development and commissioning, with operation (project delivery) background.
* DevOps and Agile methodology
* Familiar with Atlassian suite, JIRA collaboration tools
* Industry knowledge in the field of operation and multi sites project organizations
* Process and methodology oriented
* Highly collaborative and able to work across the organization to accomplish common goals.
* Ability and willingness to travel

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

* Energy Management Systems (EMS) or
* Distribution Management Systems (DMS) or
* Market Management Systems (MMS)
* Ability to remotely drive people towards a common goal, experience working with an offshore company preferred but not required
* Strong background in integration aspects related to computer systems.
* Applications development in IT/Multitier/SOA/Web/Microservices context
* Software development experience with Java / C++ programming languages
* Software Configuration Management experience (TFS, SVN, GitHub)
* Knowledge on IT and Cybersecurity environments including Linux and Windows operating systems, Kubernetes, Relational Databases, HW infrastructure, High Availability multitier architectures, Network Equipment’s.

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.



Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.