Job DescriptionJob Title: Technology Delivery Lead, Senior ManagerSalary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)Location: London (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis)Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) at the point of application.Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
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QualificationAs a team:Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
Accenture Technology powers our clients to achieve high performance. We combine business and industry insights with innovative technology to drive growth for our clients. We extend our technology and business capabilities through a powerful alliance ecosystem of market leaders and innovators to provide our clients the best specialised skills and tailored solutions.
You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.
If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.
In our team you will learn:How to provide solutions to real world problems across Health and Public Service clients in the UK.
How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment.
As a Technology Delivery Lead, you will:- Take overall accountability of technology delivery of programmes (from $500k to $30m)
- Manage the day to day delivery of high-quality technology transformation work, delivering solutions for our clients on-time and on-budget using a variety of delivery methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall
- Manage technology delivery of projects with small collocated Scrum teams to large programmes using scaled Agile approach across multiple locations
- Manage multi-functional and geographically diverse teams running the end to end technical delivery across the entire lifecycle
- Clearly communicate delivery approaches and decisions to others and take responsibility for ensuring projects are delivered successfully
- Engage and become a trusted advisor to our clients and manage senior client stakeholders in technology and business space
- Manage financial health of the technology delivery
- Define ways of working and delivery methodologies based on specific customer needs
- Support, coach your team’s personal growth
- Develop and enhance relationships with clients to identify opportunities where Accenture’s solutions can bring further innovation and value to meet their needs
- Build and develop sustainable relationships with senior stakeholders across the ecosystem providing leadership and direction both internally and externally.
- Take responsibility for driving high quality delivery on time and on budget by developing and managing delivery plans and managing risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies across project and programme of work.
- Provide functional and technical expertise to support programme delivery.
- Implement and ensure delivery and management processes and best practices across delivery methodologies.
We are looking for experience in the following areas:- Strong interest and experience of technology (custom development on open source modern architecture, cloud platforms, SaaS offerings).
- Experience in running technical/engineeringprojects and organising teams for Agile delivery.
- Excellent communication and strong stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrable commercial acumen, with excellent written and numerical skills, experienced in writing Statements of Work, project approaches and proposals
- Experience tracking and managing key financial metrics for project/programmes contracted through various financial models
- Experience of line managing and developing people and project managing a team of resources.
- Proven ability of successful project and programme delivery at scale using Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile methodology
- Extensive experience of project delivery across methodologies and technologies including programme governance, stakeholder management and budgetary control.
Set Yourself Apart:- Mastery of managing complex deliveries coordinating with internal teams, client teams and 3rd party resources with work plans at scale.
- Experience of working within the public or health sector, if not then an interest to work with public sector clients and to build your knowledge of delivering solutions for the UK Government.
- Experience of working with and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Cloud/SaaS/Industry certifications and credentials.
- Demonstrate a strong Technical and Emotional Quotient.
What’s in it for youAt Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will alsohave an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.
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