IT Delivery Manager

IT Delivery Manager

This is an outstanding opportunity to join CDIO as an IT Delivery Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery of a range of highly technical and complex outcomes. Your work will be crucial in ensuring we meet our ambitious goals and continue to provide world-class services.

Key Responsibilities

As an IT Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for:

• The end-to-end delivery of one or more medium-to-large IT projects.
• Production management of end-to-end IT delivery plans and status reports.
• Identification, management and escalation of IT risks, issues and dependencies.
• Raising, monitoring and challenging commercials / costs across all delivery teams and commercially engaged delivery partners.
• Financial forecasting and tracking of all project expenditure
• Building and maintaining effective and collaborative relationships in order to achieve successful outcomes for the business.
• Applying your experience / understanding of both Agile and waterfall delivery methodologies in a Delivery Management setting.
• Line management of Associate IT Delivery Managers.
• Removing blockers for successful delivery.
• Coaching team members, CDIO and HMRC stakeholders in Agile or Delivery Management
• Being an active member of the Delivery Manager community.
• Using variety of team forming, norming and storming techniques to build self-sufficient and empowered teams.
• Creating a team environment that fosters success and self-organisation.
• Working closely with Product Managers, Delivery Managers or project managers collaboratively to ensure delivery of the products is aligned with the project scope, requirements, and timeline constraints.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria:

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate practical knowledge and experience in the following:

• Delivering medium to large scale technical or IT enabled business change projects against a backdrop of large-scale organisational change.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Operating across tight & complex governance frameworks, and a sound knowledge of risk & cost management.
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders facilitating collaboration in order to achieve successful outcomes for the business.
• Project Governance including creating and managing a project plan and tracking risks / issues / dependencies.
• Commercial awareness including managing and monitoring of project costs and budgets ability to effectively challenge external suppliers to ensure best service and value for money.
• Utilising both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Desirable Criteria:

Ideally, the successful candidate will also demonstrate knowledge and experience in the following:

• Previous experience in the HMRC IT end-to-end change lifecycle.
• HMRC recognised project management tools and methodologies
• Evidence of playing a key role in influencing strategic decision making and demonstrating an understanding of strategic consequences of IT decisions.
• A recognised or a willingness to work towards Delivery Management qualifications such as Prince 2 Practitioner, Agile Practitioner or Managing Successful Programmes (MSP).

Key skills/competency

• Project Delivery
• Agile Methodologies
• Waterfall Methodologies
• Risk Management
• Financial Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Team Leadership
• Project Governance
• Commercial Awareness
• IT Change Management