Hybrid Senior Delivery Manager

at Kerv

• Job title: Senior Delivery Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £NaN per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Longbridge, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Delivery Manager ensuring excellent software and solutions delivery at Kerv Digital. Collaborating with Solution Architects and project managers to drive successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities

• The oft-sought, seldom found, inspired agile software, digital or IT delivery owner capable of ensuring we provide dazzling software and solutions across a huge array of technologies and platforms.
• You’ll be paired with a Solution Architect to take care of the technical wizardry on each project, along with a talented team of front and backend developers with support from the Technical Directors and Commercial Managers to boot.
• All backgrounds will always be considered and experience here is far more important, we’re really open to Project Managers that have a solid transferable background that are looking to deliver a mix of well governed Business Transformation, Dynamics 365 delivery, Pro-Code Development projects using our mature blend of agile and waterfall approaches and tools as appropriate.
• Ability to guide our clients through an Agile Scrum delivery and manage the Scrum ceremonies is essential.

Requirements

• Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business
• Creating and maintaining the environment in which the project will succeed
• Working with on/off-shore development/implementation teams
• Establishing and operating governance structures within projects to ensure effective decision making and robust assurance
• Managing project cost base and time tracking
• Identifying and delivering change control and project upsell
• Wrestling detailed requirements and designs into an implementable plan
• Managing an agile development process, including stewarding planning sessions, scrums and show and tell
• Reporting project status to the Kerv Digital Leadership Team and the client, effectively managing stakeholder expectations
• Software, Digital or IT Project Management using a structured Agile approach
• Excellent written and presentation skills, the ability to think on feet and make decisions
• Other tasks as reasonably requested (yes, our lawyers asked for that one)
• Senior Delivery Manager: 5+ Years delivery management experience
• Delivery Manager: 2-5 Years delivery management experience

Benefits

• Real Flexibility - we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
• Awesome Environment - all of our employees will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
• Interesting Work - these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market.
• Great Benefits - all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well-stocked cupboards with tasty goodies (we’re a food first company too), excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training for tech. you can’t get trained on anywhere else and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
• Recognition & Growth - Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services. Our culture is a testament to the dedicated technologists who work tirelessly to drive our vision forward. Being a part of Kerv Digital means embracing a culture of innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect.