Technical Delivery Manager

Experience: 6-9 Years
Role: Technical Delivery Manager

Key Skills:
1) SDLC& Delivery Management

• Waterfall and Hybrid delivery models
• Release and deployment management
• Project planning, estimation, and scheduling
• Risk, issue, and dependency management
• Change management
• Resource and capacity planning
• Vendor and third-party management
• Delivery governance and reporting

2) Technical Leadership

• Solution architecture understanding
• Application development lifecycle
• API integration and management

3) Stakeholder Management

• Cross-functional team leadership
• Conflict resolution
• Negotiation and influencing skills

Responsibilities:

· Plan technical deliverables (including any system enhancements and upgrades) to meet project’s requirements within allocated budget and schedule.

· Plan & collaborate across different application teams to manage technical dependencies of the solution

· Plan, monitor and manage risks/issues related to technical delivery

· Provide status update related to technical delivery to Project Manager (PM)

· Partner with System Analysts and Business Solution Specialist to collate, understand and finalize functional and technical requirements

· Partner with Architects and Development Lead to ensure solution design complies with enterprise design principles, security and control standards

· Partner with Development Manager in managing application teams to build the enhancements

· Partner with Test Manager to ensure completion of System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performance / load testing and application security testing with quality results

· Manage technical implementation plan across application teams - coordinate technical implementation activities across application teams to ensure non-event production cutover and adequate post implementation support

· Escalate issues that impacts project schedule on timely basis and propose workarounds/resolutions

Requirements:

Technical Skills & Experience

· Strong technical knowledge

· Good business domain knowledge in at least one area (e.g. Retail and Corporate Loans Origination)

· More than 7 years track record in developing and delivering global/regional IT capabilities for a multi-national/regional company with annual budgetary responsibility

· More than 3 years leadership experience in managing IT delivery teams

· Experience in communicating with technical stakeholders

· Experience in banking industry preferred

· Experience in implementing large-scale, highly available applications or other large project implementation

· Experience in service-oriented technologies

· Proven result-oriented person with a focus on delivery

· Experience in actual systems development work, with prior coding, functional specifications and technical specifications and systems development and testing experience (in aggregate no less than 8 years)

· Good understanding and experience in software development cycle

· Highly effective communicating with technical stakeholders, proficient communicating with non-technical stakeholders

· Good problem solving, analytical, synthesis, system thinking and solutioning skills

Education

· Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar domain

· Related professional/technical qualification will be advantageous although not mandatory