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

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About the role

  • 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

Job title

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

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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