Hybrid Head of Technical Delivery – Data Migration, 9-12 Month Contract

at AND Digital

• Job title: Head of Technical Delivery – Data Migration, 9-12 Month Contract
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Head of Technical Delivery managing data migration projects for tier-1 bank. Overseeing end-to-end delivery and stakeholder management with a tech company focused on digital delivery.

Responsibilities

• Delivery Leadership & Planning (shared two in a box with Technology lead)
• Leads a large-scale, complex and high impact projects providing delivery support for the end-to-end delivery
• Defines and manages the end-to-end scope, ensuring all applications, infrastructure, data, and associated business processes are accounted for
• Leads programme planning and ensures all dependent workstreams are aligned
• Manage the programme of work, including but not limited to:
• E2e plan
• Supplier delivery teams
• Dependent workstreams
• Infrastructure changes
• Leads agile delivery through planning and work decomposition
• Manages shared resources and cross-team dependencies
• Identifies and resolves technical bottlenecks and blockers
• Proactively identifies and mitigates technical risks
• Ensure risks are assessed, managed, and owned
• Explores ways to reduce delivery risk
• Manages complex and high-risk implementations requiring integration between multiple parties (internal/external) to ensure safe and successful delivery.
• Owns the integration process and implementation events for shared infrastructure, coordinating parties to ensure successful change.
• Manage delivery through bank's governance and change management framework to ensure change is delivered safely
• Acts as an escalation point across multiple teams
• Guides teams through complex decisions and trade-offs
• Works with technical leadership to ensure consistency and quality across deliverables
• Provides informal coaching and mentoring
• Continued assessment of team to ensure the right skills are in place for success
• Encourages ownership and accountability
• Act as the primary contact for the migration workstream.
• Acts as the liaison between technical delivery teams, business data owners, compliance/audit, and executive leadership to align expectations
• Clearly communicate complex challenges, progress, and dependencies to the leadership, business stakeholders, and other workstream leads
• Supports onboarding and integration of new team members

Requirements

• Experience migrating from large-scale legacy mainframes or data appliances.
• Prior experience in a heavily regulated industry, such as Banking
• Ability to co-ordinate highly complex change across multiple teams and own the dependencies for complex, cross-organisation, changes to deliver great outcomes
• Experience within a technology change environment, working with regulatory, business and software engineering teams
• A Senior programme manager or consultant with delivery leadership experience
• Strong understanding of agile engineering practices and tooling
• Able to operate across multiple tech stacks and domains
• Comfortable influencing delivery direction without direct line management
• Infastrurcte Cloud & Platform project knowledge and experience
• Experience working with and managing and in holding 3rd party suppliers to account