Delivery Manager

Delivery Manager

Financial Services

London/Hybrid

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Delivery Manager to Join Resource Solutions as a Workforce Consultant. As an Employed Workforce Consultant, you will benefit from permanent employment with Resource Solutions and will be deployed on an interim or project basis into our clients’ organisations, in return we will provide you with the opportunity to develop your skills with ongoing training and professional accreditations.

The Role

As part of the Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI) Division, we are leading the FCA in harnessing the power of digital, data and advanced analytics to transform financial regulation.

In Intelligence and Digital, a subdivision of DTI, we believe in doing things differently.

We believe in collaboration, inclusivity, innovation and using data to be at our best. We place emphasis on curiosity and experimentation. We collaborate widely with other regulators, academics, innovative companies, and within the FCA.

Data is an essential ingredient to delivering effective regulation, so we treat our data as an asset and are building digital services to ensure we can make best use of it.

We are currently looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to act as a main point of escalation, accountable for the effective delivery of complex, fast-paced products and services, drawing on extensive experience, throughout the entire product lifecycle.

This is a key role in both the development of the wider FCA digital capability and the development of the Leeds Digital Hub as an FCA centre of excellence. The Leeds Digital Delivery Hub is a new delivery department within the FCA dedicated to the implementation of sound User Centred Design, Agile and DevOps principles and is still in the process of forming. This role will play a key part in the development of the department, the growth of key DDAT capability and the evolution of digital delivery skills across the wider organisation.

What will you do?

Responsible for implementation of effective delivery management across a portfolio of products and services. Acting as a senior leader and point of escalation for delivery management within the portfolio.

Create, lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, ensuring you have the correct structure and levels of skill to develop your future plans. Leading, enabling and empowering teams to deliver at pace, ensuring strong communication.

Own the strategic delivery roadmap, aligning with business strategy, priorities and outcomes and leading the development prioritised backlog, service blueprints and user stories through working with Senior Product Manager and business partners.

Have oversight over the architecture, working with your technical leads to ensure the systems and solutions you develop are flexible, loosely coupled and deliver performance that is appropriate for business need.

Responsible for ensuring that effective software methodology is in place, aligned to agile / lean principles.

Align to the DevOps principles and toolsets being established with high degrees of automation throughout the development process. Driving towards continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous operational monitoring are baseline goals.

Ensure that security, reliability and performance are embedded into the team skills, development process and architecture.

Line management and professional leadership, including performance management.

Coaching team members and others, facilitating continuous improvement and applying the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques for their environment.

Working closely and collaboratively with business service owners and product managers to ensure that the products deliver measurable value to users and the business.

Managing risks, budgets, and people.