Civica - Delivery Manager

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

- Day to day responsibility for the delivery of software development projects.

- Removal of impediments and blockers to project progress.

- Take responsibility for the effectiveness and continuous improvement of a team working on a project.

- Develop and encourage continuous learning within teams.

- Accountable for end to end delivery of a project on behalf of clients.

- Undertake project risk management.

- Build productive client relationships and identify and develop opportunities for new business.

- Management of project budget.

- Maintain project artifacts (backlog items, burndowns etc) to ensure effective running of delivery projects.

- Point of contact for any staffing, performance or infrastructure issue.

Essential Competencies:-

- Experience in at least one Agile Methodology (preferably Scrum).

- Familiarity with structured programme and project management approaches (preferably PRINCE2).

- Intellectually strong with an excellent academic record.

- Strong track record of successful full-lifecycle software project delivery.

- Extensive experience of working in a client-facing environment.

- Experience of delivering projects in a matrix type organization.

- Excellent team working with exceptional oral and written communication skills.

- Innovative, flexible self-starter with excellent analytical skills.

- Skilled facilitator.

- Courage to challenge.

- Proactive personality and able to work autonomously.

- Good team player with a collaborative approach to working.

- Strong organizational and planning skills.

- Can Do- attitude.

Desirable:

- Good presentation skills.

- Business change implementation.

- Business Analysis experience.

- Experience of working with bespoke/customized technology solutions.

- Experience of working within regulatory environments.

- Experience of managing multi-disciplined teams.

- Experience with Microsoft technologies.

- Experience with the Java technology stack.

- Experience of contract negotiation and management