Technical Delivery Manager

Title: Technical Delivery Manager

Department: IT Development

Location: Riyadh

Core Responsibilities:

• Creates and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Manages end-to-end implementation of assigned IT projects and ensures timely roll out.
• Use project management tools such as JIRA to manage Agile projects, resource allocation and capacity planning.
• Follow IT project management process & Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to delivery IT and digitally driven project
• Use project management tools, such as Microsoft Project to manage large scale projects or program
• Plans resource availability for Information Services and Technology Solutions projects in alignment with business requirements including IT consultants/vendors.
• Produces all project reports, including, project report, feasibility, budget utilization, risk and issue, etc.
• Evaluates vendors in alignment with business and project needs and participate in RFP / RFI process
• Ensures that assigned projects are delivered according to Group and department standards
• Coordinates with IT functions such as Development, Operations and Quality to deliver Digital transformation projects within the strategy execution timeline
• Identifies and mitigates integration related risks and ensures the delivery of a high standard service.
• Optimizes SAB and vendor resources to achieve maximum return to business investment.
• Utilizes existing IT infrastructure to achieve the potential return on IT assets.
• Articulates to stakeholders and partners the targeted benefits and takes joint responsibility for benefits realization.
• Works closely with delivery partners on planning, design and estimating, bringing together delivery and business partner teams; actively managing dependencies between these teams and other projects and programmes.
• Adhere to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring integration technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to architecture strategy-setting. Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience
• Evaluate existing APIs for fitting purpose to an existing project or solution and leverage on existing integration wherever possible
• Sets the pace and operating rhythm, driving a culture of achievement and ensures pace by identifying and removing barriers to project success.
• Obtains sponsor and stakeholder sign-off for deliverables, formally closes project, assesses stakeholder satisfaction and captures feedback and learned lessons from each project
• Hand-on experience with agile methodology to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements.
• Ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.
• Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials.
• Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or relevant field.
• Holding of PMP\Scrum Master is highly preferred.
• Three years and above of experience in IT within the banking industry.
• Prior technical experience with PEGA platform implementation and adoption
• Hand-on experience with agile methodology in planning, managing, and delivering solutions.
• Strong understanding of modern APIs and the Integration patterns.
• Practitioner of Project Management Methodologies (e.g. waterfall, iterative, agile discipline).
• Prior experience and understanding of unit testing, release procedures, coding, design and documentation, and change management processes.