Vitality, Senior Delivery Manager, Bournemouth, £Competitive + Bonus + Benefits
We’re the UK insurer and investment provider that rewards people for positive lifestyle choices. With 1.25m+ UK members and more than 25m globally, we’re out to make the world a healthier, happier place.
That applies as much to our people as it does to our members. So, as well as a highly competitive pay package, you’ll enjoy: Free places to Vitality sponsored run events, online fitness classes and wellbeing workshops, competitions to win tickets to top-flight sporting events, health checks and access to our full range of partners and rewards.
It’s what we call offering shared value, because a healthy, happy team is good for us, good for our members and good for you.
As ourSenior Delivery Manager, you’ll get the benefits our members enjoy, including:
- Our award-winning private Vitality Health insurance + wellness incentive programme
- Access to The Vitality Programme – Apple Watch, Waitrose and Partners, Garmin, Amazon Prime, Champneys Spa days, Rakuten TV and half-price gym memberships to name a few!
- Personal health fund + Life Assurance
- Stakeholder Pension Plan with employer contribution
- 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays + option to buy and sell 5 more
- Flexible benefits package
- Internal incentives, competitions, and awards – a chance to win football and sports tickets or even be in with a chance to have a holiday of a lifetime
- A genuine opportunity to grow and establish a long-term career
As our Senior Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for the software development function for a suite of in-house applications and COTS products, implementing best practices to continuously improve the quality of work delivered through optimised process, standards and tools used for software development.
Your role as our Senior Delivery Manager will involve:
- Overseeing up to 15 Scrum Teams/130 heads led by Delivery Managers from our Strategic Development Partner
- Mentoring, coaching and leading up to 10 direct reports as Lead Developers and Tech Specialists
- Working closely with Business Stakeholders and Project Managers as the primary point of contact in responding to demand
- Working with IT Service & Operations to set up and evolve a continuous integration delivery approach
- Providing expertise, technical authority and guidance whilst taking active ownership for the quality of the development teams work
- Optimising the delivery flow of teams, actively addressing the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies
- Leading a continual planning process in a very complex environment
- Managing complex relationships with contracted suppliers, identifying appropriate contractual frameworks and identifying appropriate suppliers
- Managing stakeholder expectations and facilitating discussions about high risk and complexity
- Negotiating, influencing or setting budgets in complex environments
- Applying experience of multiple parts of the product lifecycle
- Coaching and leading teams in Agile and Lean practices
- Identifying and implementing best practice software engineering practices
Our ideal Senior Delivery Manager will have:
- A track record of successfully delivering large or complex product/projects, with significant software development components through the full lifecycle by managing a number of diverse teams
- A proven ability in leading, managing and growing development teams, developing good practices and driving continuous improvement in performance
- Knowledge of design and architecture concepts (i.e. microservices) and ability to apply knowledge within the development cycle
- An understanding of engineering principles and the application and execution within an insurance environment, e.g. pair programming, code reviews
- Good knowledge of software engineering
- An understanding of agile development principles
Closing Date: Friday 30th April 2021
Working for Vitality, you'll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best.
Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm, and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved.
If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Senior Delivery Manager,thenplease click ‘apply’ today.
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