Senior Programme Manager

Contract position

Minimum requirements:

• 10 years of experience in the IT field.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field required
• 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least two years of experience as a technical programme manager
• Experience in development and delivery of complex business applications, including: web based front ends and back ends; integration with ERP systems; robust data validation and reporting; multi-language support; test automation; cloud deployment and migration

Responsibilities:

• Provide a future state oriented cultural overlay with technology staff to ensure focus on future state operating model and avoidance of historical pitfalls
• Ensure suitable and consistent delivery approach (both technology and general management),
• Drive agile IT delivery process within a waterfall programme context
• Component readiness for testing, especially integration testing phases
• Ensure component testing for all technology deliverables is completed or entry to integration testing
• Ensure technology plans are coherent across the programme
• Surface technology inter-dependencies and ensure these are delivered to across all technology component delivery
• Intervene and escalate where this is not the case i.e. Where project delivery is at odds with programme outcomes and escalate where otherwise
• Ensure an integrated plan for environment utilization for development purposes and input to test environment planning
• Adherence to business architecture stipulations, challenging both projects and Architecture decision-making where business outcome/delivery timeline are not optimized.
• Architectural accountability to programme for internally developed components with externally developed components driven only at an integration level.
• Take part in Design Authority as part of responsibility to drive coherence across architecture, ensuring all technology deliverables are coherent with agreed Business Architecture
• Facilitate business PMs in understanding the current state and challenges of all technology delivery
• Provide progress evidence of technology plan and delivery coherence across the projects, especially when aligning to integration test phases.
• Drive visibility of vendor technology component delivery through appropriate trackers, issue transparency and escalation