Head of Digital Delivery

Fintech

London

Permanent

£150,000+ bonus and generous benefits

An excellent and challenging opportunity for a Head of Digital Delivery to join a leading Fintech who are going through significant business and technology transformation

Working as part of a large centralised Digital Teamthe Head of Delivery will perform a vital part in ensuring the successful delivery of product across all Digital Channels.

Role:

• Build and lead the team of Delivery Leads, responsible for all aspects of team member management including recruitment, oversight, performance evaluation, training and development
• Accountable for the delivery of products to Time, Cost and Quality
• Accountable for dealing with blockers and escalations from Delivery Leads
• Working in conjunction with Head of Delivery Assurance to drive out delivery dependencies, as well as ensuring that risks are identified, recorded and managed
• Accountable for the delivery of key metrics and KPIs
• Work in conjunction with Business Product Owners and respective CTOs to manage product concepts through to the delivery phase

Experience

• Strong track record of managing and leading delivery teams in both Waterfall and Agile environments.
• Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Networking, negotiating and influencing stakeholders, to get the right outcome for the business.
• Experience of managing programmes or projects or a variety of delivery / assurance roles across a number of projects/ programmes and product lifecycles.
• Ability to command respect and to create a sense of community amongst the disparate members of the programme team.
• Ability to apply risk assessment and management principles and processes and find ways of solving or pre-empting issues.
• Experience of change and configuration management and risk & issue management.
• Quality focused. You know what it takes to deliver quality, sustainable systems, and you can teach others to do the same. You are passionate about high-quality software development and the technology and knowledge that supports it.
• Team Player. You enjoy collaborating with, learning from, and teaching others so we all become better. You assume good intent in others, and actively do your part to make a positive work environment.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience, and experience managing large budgets.