Overview of Role
As an Agile Technical Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of technical projects in a fast-paced, client-centric environment. You will work closely with clients to understand their needs, guide a team of technical professionals, and ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. This role is ideal for an individual with a strong technical background, excellent project management skills, and a passion for delivering exceptional service to clients.
Responsibilities
Client Engagement
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients.
- Communicate regularly with clients, keeping them informed of project progress and addressing any concerns.
- Work closely with clients on site minimum 3 days a week.
Project Management
- Lead and own the success of an engagement using Agile methodologies, ensuring fast-paced and efficient delivery.
- Understand client’s desired business outcomes, the engagement’s scope of work and align them within a backlog.
- Manage project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
- Review timesheets and make sure they accurately reflect the team’s work.
- Ensure accurate and timely documentation throughout the engagement.
Technical Delivery Governance
- Understand the key components of the solution and their relationship to the scope and the desired business outcomes.
- Provide delivery guidance and oversight on how to align the technical components design and implementation with the delivery timeline throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure the delivery feasibility of proposed technical components.
Quality Assurance
- Ensure that all deliverables meet quality standards and client expectations.
- Implement quality control processes throughout the project lifecycle.
- Lead and mentor a team of technical professionals, including architects, engineers, and QA specialists.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
- Conduct regular team meetings and ensure clear communication of project objectives and progress.
Qualifications
Delivery Requirements
- 8+ years of proven experience in technical project management, preferably in a consulting environment.
- Strong, demonstrable knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban).
- Experience delivering complex, multi-stream projects at enterprise level, ideally in financial services or digital natives.
- Excellent leadership and team management skills.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Technical Requirements
- Deep understanding of data management, advanced analytics and visualization concepts.
- Hands on technical experience of delivering data, analytics and AI projects.
- Strong knowledge of cloud ecosystems and their key products (preferably GCP).
- Strong grasp of AI/ML solutions and their required delivery components.
- Ability to understand technical components of data, analytics and AI solution architecture.
66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.
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