Head of Technical Delivery - Data Migration (9-12 Month Contract) chez AND Digital

Head of Technical Delivery - Programme Manager - Data Migration

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 9-12 Months

Location: London

On site requirement: 2dpw in central London office

AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always make a remarkable impact for our clients. We do this through our regional offices (or ‘Clubs’) building strong relationships with our partners, so that they are always prioritised by a team within close proximity. 

This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK, Europe and the USA with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.

Role: 

The Head of Technical Delivery will be accountable for the successful end-to-end delivery of the entire data migration programme for a tier-1 bank. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Delivery Leadership & Planning (shared two in a box with Technology lead) 
• Leads a large-scale, complex and high impact projects providing delivery support for the end-to-end delivery
• Defines and manages the end-to-end scope, ensuring all applications, infrastructure, data, and associated business processes are accounted for
• Leads programme planning and ensures all dependent workstreams are aligned
• Manage the programme of work, including but not limited to:
• E2e plan
• Supplier delivery teams
• Dependent workstreams 
• Infrastructure changes 
• Leads agile delivery through planning and work decomposition 
• Manages shared resources and cross-team dependencies
• Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management
• Identifies and resolves technical bottlenecks and blockers 
• Proactively identifies and mitigates technical risks
• Ensure risks are assessed, managed, and owned
• Explores ways to reduce delivery risk
• Implementation & Governance
• Manages complex and high-risk implementations requiring integration between multiple parties (internal/external) to ensure safe and successful delivery.
• Owns the integration process and implementation events for shared infrastructure, coordinating parties to ensure successful change.
• Manage delivery through bank's governance and change management framework to ensure change is delivered safely
• Oversight & Assurance
• Acts as an escalation point across multiple teams
• Guides teams through complex decisions and trade-offs 
• Works with technical leadership to ensure consistency and quality across deliverables 
• Team Support  
• Provides informal coaching and mentoring 
• Continued assessment of team to ensure the right skills are in place for success
• Encourages ownership and accountability 
• Stakeholder Management
• Act as the primary contact for the migration workstream.
• Acts as the liaison between technical delivery teams, business data owners, compliance/audit, and executive leadership to align expectations
• Clearly communicate complex challenges, progress, and dependencies to the leadership, business stakeholders, and other workstream leads
• Supports onboarding and integration of new team members

Ideal Profile 

• Experience migrating from large-scale legacy mainframes or data appliances.
• Prior experience in a heavily regulated industry, such as Banking
• Ability to co-ordinate highly complex change across multiple teams and own the dependencies for complex, cross-organisation, changes to deliver great outcomes
• Experience within a technology change environment, working with regulatory, business and software engineering teams
• A Senior programme manager or consultant with delivery leadership experience 
• Strong understanding of agile engineering practices and tooling 
• Able to operate across multiple tech stacks and domains 
• Comfortable influencing delivery direction without direct line management 
• Infastrurcute Cloud & Platform project knowledge and experience
• Experience working with and managing and in holding 3rd party suppliers to account

Joining AND

From the work we deliver, to the way we serve and support our people, we work hard to ensure that there’s nowhere quite like AND. But joining a company is a two-way street: the fit has to work on both sides. So before you apply, here’s three key things to understand about us:

• We’re built for people - like, real humans. Not ‘resources’ or ‘staff’. That means happiness and wellbeing really do matter to us, and we hate unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy.
• There’s no well-trodden path ahead: AND is growing fast and forging a new trail. That’s exciting, and gives us all the autonomy and opportunity we love - but bear in mind it also demands focus, patience and resilience.
• Diversity is a priority. After all, to build great products that a wide variety of different people love to use, we need a wide variety of people to help us build them. So diversity is more than a policy or a word: it’s business critical for us.