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Base Location: Reading
Salary: 490 - 580 per day
Working Pattern: 40 hours per week / Full time
Embark on a transformative career journey with SSE energy company, where innovation meets impact in the heart of the IT sector. As a pivotal player in our forward-thinking team, you'll harness cutting-edge technology to drive change and propel the UK towards its ambitious net-zero targets. Your expertise will not only shape the future of energy but also carve a sustainable world for generations to come. Join us and be at the forefront of the green revolution, where every line of code contributes to a cleaner, brighter future.
Key Responsibilities:
* Responsible for leading the IT/Tech delivery for a number of deliveries as part of the Bridge Programme within the Works Execution CoE.
* Establish and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with delivery teams, stakeholders and business teams to ensure that requirements are delivered smoothly & effectively.
* Manage the IT delivery team, and wider stakeholders as required, across the end-to-end project lifecycle to ensure that resultant systems/services deliver the agreed outcomes, within budget and timescale, without introducing technical debt.
* Responsible for ensuring the acceptance into service is meet from an IT perspective.
* Analyse problems, action and progress issues as appropriate, ensuring follow through to resolution and removal of blockers.
* Act as a point of escalation for the project & business teams to ensure that project activity is able to progress at pace inline with the agreed project plan.
* Ensure proactive risk and issue management ensuring that the appropriate structures & governance standards are embedded & met utilising the skill, knowledge & expertise of the project team & business stakeholders.
* Ensure the identification of dependencies & proactive management of known dependencies so that they are delivered to meet the project & wider programme needs.
* Ensure that the team builds on lessons learnt to enable the project to move forward at pace & avoids encountering problems repeatedly.
What do you need?
* Experience of working on Asset Data projects would be preferrable.
* Experience of facilitating a procurement process for a new system would be preferrable.
* Demonstrable experience of running successful delivery with multiple delivery teams - have strong technical knowledge to provide delivery teams with support and guidance
* Ability to provide leadership and focus for the delivery teams, building strong capability within relevant area
* Is able to articulate the environment that supports SSE's Vision and Values, whilst encouraging innovation.
* Experience of having shaped business cases and delivering tangible benefits to an organisation.
* Experience and ability to prioritise.
* Ability to manage complex delivery in a complex environment, potentially including applying remedial measures where appropriate
* Demonstrable experience of applying and advising on delivery methods and frameworks
What happens now?
After submitting your application for the Delivery Lead role, we understand you're eager to hear back. We value your time and interest, and if your application is successful, you will be contacted directly by the team within 2 working days.
We appreciate your patience and look forward to the possibility of welcoming you aboard.
