Delivery Manager

Location

Any UK Base

Who you’ll be working with

The UK Government is one of the most digitally advanced in the world, recently coming top of the 2016 United Nations E-Government and E-Procurement surveys. Despite the progress, citizens feel that the country works for those who govern and not for citizens themselves. People want a more responsive state, they want change and they want it at pace and at scale. UK Government has a bold IT vision based on user centric design, agile development, open source software, continuous delivery, infrastructure automation, cloud computing and a DevOps culture. What it needs is people to help put this vision into practice. What it needs is people like you.

As a Capgemini Public Sector Digital Delivery Manager you will join the Capgemini Public Sector Digital Unit supporting a number of major Public Sector clients. Primarily working with agile delivery teams, you will be working in ways that are starting to define the industry, as well as work with excellent engineers, who are at the forefront of technology.

The focus of your role

We’re excited to be offering this opportunity for a Digital Delivery Manager to join our rapidly expanding team, working at the forefront of technology at various locations throughout the UK. You will create, manage and continuously improve one or more digital services utilising agile and lean principles and methodologies, via a number of multi-disciplinary, highly skilled digital teams. You will work with product managers and the delivery team to establish delivery priorities and plans, manage risks and dependencies, and remove blockers. You will have great stakeholder management skills, enabling you to build good relationships and communicate effectively. You’ll be adept at delivering complex projects, breaking down barriers for your team and dealing with escalations.

What you’ll do

You’ll be working for one of our major Public Sector clients. These include: HM Revenue and Customs, Department for Work and Pensions, The Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Department for Education and the NHS amongst others, with locations in Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool, Croydon, Telford, central London and the South East and many others. Working on site with a client can provide considerable benefits to a project, such as faster decision making, reduced misunderstanding and closer collaboration, but we also understand very well that this has to be balanced with the need for flexible working.

You’ll be working for one of our major Public Sector clients. These include: HM Revenue and Customs, Department for Work and Pensions, The Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Department for Education and the NHS amongst others, with locations in Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool, Croydon, Telford, central London and the South East and many others. Working on site with a client can provide considerable benefits to a project, such as faster decision making, reduced misunderstanding and closer collaboration, but we also understand very well that this has to be balanced with the need for flexible working.

What you’ll bring

We’d love to hear from you if you have some of the following experience:

• Track record of delivering digital services for public sector organizations following the GDS Digital Service Standard approach, from Discovery through to Live, for any of size/complexity of project [mandatory].
• Maintaining delivery momentum, focusing on the outcome, removing blockers and obstacles, managing risks and dependencies.
• Building and motivating multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring effective collaboration and open communication, providing guidance and support to the team, ensuring health of the team and accelerating performance.
• Coaching mind-set, driving and facilitating continuous, provable improvements and efficiencies, based on data, using agile and lean practices.
• Good knowledge of agile and lean tools and techniques, experience of agile collaboration tools (e.g. Atlassian Jira, Agile for Scrum, Confluence) and agile delivery techniques (e.g. Continuous Delivery/Integration, Test Driven Development, and associated tooling).
• Strong communication skills with an ability to manage communications a range of stakeholder groups, including both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Accountability for project budgets to ensure delivery of value, accurate forecasting and management of change.

Additional skills and experience also of interest:

• A professional qualification in Project Management e.g. APMP, PRINCE2
• Professional Scrum Master Qualification (or willingness to certify)
• Practical experience of scheduling tools e.g. Microsoft Project, Open WorkBench (Clarity).

What we’ll offer you

These are some of the brilliant reasons to apply for this job:

• Great People – At the end of the day of the day it’s all about people. Capgemini has great people, who work together in a community and help each other develop. We work on large scale, technically challenging projects.
• Great Technology – The UK Government has an excellent IT strategy based on user centric design, modern open source technology, continuous integration/delivery, modern software architectures such as micro-services and cloud technology to name but a few.
• Great Vision – The chance to make a real difference at the heart of the digital transformation within the UK Public Sector.
• Great Opportunities – Professional development, modern on-line learning environments such as Udemy as well as access to the Capgemini University in France. Conference attendance and speaking. Supporting tech meetups, hackathons and university lectures. The Capgemini University training facility and much, much more.
• And of course a competitive package including flexible benefits to suit your needs.

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