Software Product Delivery Manager

Vacancy No: LH10642

Software Product Delivery Manager

Salary: to £60,000 per annum

Homebased + travel to Milton Keynes at least, once per month.

Essential:

• Good understanding of software development processes and scaled agile delivery as you will need to work alongside development teams working within a scaled agile framework
• Effective communicator across different stakeholder groups
• Take responsibility to drive delivery, and uses initiative to solve challenges
• Comfortable to constructively challenge the norm and suggest improvements

Overview:

Reporting to: Chief Product Officer.

As a Delivery Manager you’ll be responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of new solutions as part of a cross-functional team.

The position guides complex technology initiatives from inception through delivery and support, working in close partnership with the product director / solution owner and the solution architect in the team. Your job is to "make it real".

You will be responsible for ensuring that the technical components required to deliver a solution are scoped, designed, planned, and delivered.

You will help the delivery team achieve their objectives, tracking / reporting progress against delivery milestones and be willing to roll up your sleeves to help out where required.

Initially, you will be focused on supporting the delivery of one of the client’s most strategic programmes in FY2024/25.

Key Responsibilities:

• Obtain a sound understanding of the technology and software components making up the product suites and use that knowledge to inform the delivery approach
• Support product leads or solution architects to drive the execution of key initiatives from design through to delivery and deployment
• Work with the solution owner and solution architect to understand the business outcomes for the initiative, the functional and non-functional requirements, and the components required to deliver the initiative
• Ensure comprehensive plans in place, covering all technical components needed, to ensure that the initiative will be seen through from beginning to end, working with the different delivery teams and departments to ensure that each component is managed through the delivery pipeline
• Where required, work with third party stakeholders and suppliers to progress technical deliverables (e.g. understanding / obtaining specifications and certificates, testing requirements etc) which will be required to deliver the initiative and ensure timelines / dependencies are communicated to the delivery teams
• Liaise with various teams across the business (e.g. operations, infrastructure, security, customer facing service teams) to ensure any customer roll-out and migration activities are scoped out and planned
• Ensure a comprehensive handover of new solutions are carried out to the deployment and operations teams so that solutions are supportable and can be deployed at scale
• Ensure risks, issues, or delays are flagged to the solution owner as early as possible so that they can be addressed
• Set up and facilitate workshops as required to ensure the components of the solution are understood and planned

Desirable:

• Technical skills / understanding include SQL, .NET, Azure services, APIs would be a bonus but not essential
• Experience of integration engines / middleware / messaging solutions is a bonus
• Experience in healthcare is a bonus

ATA Wilde is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this vacancy.