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Lead the end-to-end management and successful delivery of software development projects/ initiatives. This role involves planning, coordinating and overseeing projects to ensure they meet the established timelines, scope, budget and quality standards. The Project/delivery Manager acts as the central point of communication between stakeholders, development teams and clients ensuring that software engineering projects align with business objectives.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Working on multiple simultaneous projects
- Undertakes management of medium-large scale projects.
- Responsible for successful delivery from inception through to BAU
- Lead cross functional teams including software developers, quality assurance engineers, business analysts and other technical personnel.
- Leads project planning, scheduling, controlling and reporting activities for strategic, high impact, high risk projects.
- Manages risk and ensures that solutions to problems are implemented in line with change control processes.
- Responsible for the definition, documentation and successful completion of complex projects (typically with significant business, political, or high-profile impact, and high-risk dependencies).
- Ensures that effective project control, change control, risk/issue/actions/dependencies management and testing processes are maintained.
- Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget and manages expectations of all project stakeholders.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
- Candidate should hold at least one of the following qualifications:
- PRINCE 2 Foundation & PRINCE 2 Practitioner
- PRINCE2 Agile Foundation & Practitioner
- Association of Project Management (APM) Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
- Significant experience in project management
- Familiarity with software development processes and technologies (e.g. coding languages, frameworks and databases).
- Held project budget management responsibilities of between £100K - £1 Million
- Matrix-Managed teams of at least 10 staff with line management of at least 3
- Experience of successfully delivering some level of business process change
- Must have worked on 5 Business Change Programmes or Projects
- Working with internal company staff members, external suppliers & external customers
- Organised, professional and with a "can do" attitude
DESIRABLE SKILLS:
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Association of Project Management (APM) APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ)
- BCS Foundation Certificate in IS Project Management
- Knowledge of software engineering standards (e.g. ISO, CMMI) and best practices.