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Principal Delivery Manager
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Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
Delivery principals work with delivery, technical and design leads to ensure projects deliver the desired outcomes for users and customers. As an expert in delivery, you’ll define the delivery approach and team shape, inspire trust with senior stakeholders and guide clients through the delivery process from the first client engagement.
As the most senior line of project escalation, you’ll collaborate with delivery teams and client stakeholders to identify and manage risks and solve issues that arise. The majority of these activities will be value adding, and chargeable to the client.
As a delivery leader within Made Tech you will maintain and grow your professional network. You will contribute to Made Tech’s growth, working with marketing on thought leadership, content and events, and supporting sales with responding to bids.
Delivery principals contribute to the successful delivery of the outcomes and KPIs. These include fostering a best in class Community of Practice (CoP), managing the performance and development of a number of delivery managers, promoting learning and development, supporting recruitment, and contributing to quarterly and annual goals.
Competencies and behaviours:
We don’t expect you to tick all of these when you join. We’ll work together to define learning and development objectives that help you meet these competencies:
Commercial awareness
Fluent with business fundamentals (USP, profitability, risks, target market).
Demonstrate advocacy and prioritisation of business fundamentals.
Display accountability for managing commercial activities within deliveries.
Be able to recall and describe key case studies.
Performance management of direct and indirect reports
Demonstrate fast remediation of performance issues.
Demonstrate encouragement and mentoring of high performers, to support them towards successful promotions.
Maintain compliance with all expectations of line management responsibilities.
Lead teams to effectively manage risk and quality within work streams:
Demonstrate planning of and implementation of risk management activities within programme of projects, including consistent and reliable risk management processes and reporting to key stakeholders.
Demonstrate activities to ensure that projects, teams and functions have appropriate practices in place to meet required quality levels.
Coach teams to successfully deliver projects:
Have working knowledge of a wide variety of delivery approaches, methods and tools - for example Kanban, Scrum, Scaled Agile, Waterfall, Lean, XP and Design Sprints.
Recall examples of coaching teams on best practices in other capabilities, including Security, DevOps, User Centred Design and Data Ethics.
Be able to explain the GDS service standard and how to meet each point, the purpose of each phase of the GDS Service Manual and the roles and responsibilities of all of the DDAT roles that make up a Service Team.
Demonstrate advocacy of best practice delivery with teams and clients.
Deliver consultancy to clients as part of a formal or informal arrangement:
Demonstrate experience of designing and running workshops with client stakeholders, including post-workshop feedback.
Demonstrate experience taking responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
The following skills will be assessed during the application process
Agile Software Delivery experience
Stakeholder management, engagement
Risk Management & Delivery Assurance
Consultancy and Sales ability
User focus and outcomes thinking
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Culture overview
We are Transparent
We're building an open and transparent company across the UK, full of people who are passionate about their work, who always strive to be better, who love to help others grow and who care about using digital and technology to create a better, fairer society.
We Make a Difference
We focus our efforts on building meaningful, open source services that can help improve citizens' lives. We find this type of work more challenging and more rewarding. Less short-lived, throwaway projects, more mission-critical systems and services.
We Continuously Improve
We see the importance and value in self-improvement. We have regular code dojos, show and tells, reviews and other reflective practices we aim to encourage growth. One of the biggest ways we have committed to developing our skills is Learn Tech Fridays.
We Learn
Learn Tech consists of a number of tracks, where every Friday afternoon the whole company comes together to focus on learning new or developing existing skills. This is a constantly evolving programme and we are working with our team's feedback to keep improving it going forward. We support individuals with 12 days' paid learning each year, plus an individual learning budget.
We are here to stay
We are building a lasting organisation in which our people can grow with the business. We try to think hard about how to best approach every aspect of what we do to create the most enjoyable and productive environment.
We are Inclusive
We want to foster a diverse, happy and well-supported team. D&I isn't just something we pay lip service to. The services we help build will be used by people around the country. So it’s important to us that the teams that build them reflect this diversity too. Wherever you are on your career path. Whatever your background and experience. If you’re passionate about using technology to make life better for everyone, we absolutely want to hear from you.
Certifications
We see workplace engagement as a vital part of our continued success in empowering our employees to have a positive impact on the public sector. We are extremely proud to have received certifications from Best Companies for our continued commitment to making Made Tech a great place to work.
Technology’s 50 Best Companies to Work For in London for 2021
Technology’s 50 Best Companies to Work For in the South West for 2021
Outstanding to Work for 2-Star Accreditation for 2021
Employee benefits
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Season Ticket Loan
Unlimited Holidays
Office vibe
Beer Fridge
City Centre
Friday Drinks
Office Dog
Open Plan
Social Events
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Leadership
Ben Collier
Head of Cloud and Engineering
Tech overview
We want to positively impact the future of the country
by using technology to improve society, for everyone.
We work with public sector organisations to modernise technology and working practices, and accelerate digital delivery so that citizens can benefit from better public services.
We're transparent about what we do and how we do it, which is why we publish everything about us here: https://github.com/madetech/handbook
We grow a team of polyglot programmers, comfortable using several programming languages. Our teams can work across a variety of technologies and you will need to be comfortable doing so too.
Our teams have used Ruby with Rails and Sinatra, ES6 with React and Angular, C# with .NET Core, Java with Spring, Python with Django, and plenty more stacks.
We don’t limit ourselves as a company to particular technologies and we expect all our engineers to be keen on learning new skills.
You will need to be comfortable sharing your knowledge and skills with others.
We’d love to hear some examples of mentoring, coaching and growing team members. Maybe you will have written some blog posts about your discipline, or perhaps even delivered a talk or two.
High performing software delivery teams need to be empowered to deliver changes all the way through to production. To do this we combine our extensive cloud automation knowledge with DevOps culture.
We've been using AWS from the start and as Advanced Partners are go to experts within the public sector. We use a range of IaaS, PaaS and FaaS depending on the needs of our users, in this case software teams, such as EC2, Lambda, ECS, Kubernetes, Heroku, CloudFoundry, Azure App Services, and more.
We use VPC and PrivateLink for connecting to on-premise, legacy systems. We also use API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, SQS, SNS, SES, RDS, and many other services provided by AWS. You will have the opportunity to use and learn these technologies and we offer official AWS and other cloud training.
We ensure we document our architecture and infrastructure as code, using technologies such as Terraform and OpenAPI. Containerisation is a big part of empowering our teams to develop, deploy and scale their applications, but so too is using AWS Lambda and avoiding the complexity of stateful services altogether.
Right tool for the job.
For us, DevOps is about culture rather than roles and titles. Even though this role is for someone with strong DevOps experience, the biggest impact you will have is coaching and helping teams use the platforms you build. You won't be building infrastructure in isolation or charged with deploying other peoples work into production.
You'll empower teams with the mantra: you build it, you run it!
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Infrastructure as code
Mentoring
Micro services
Open source contributor
Pair programming
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
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