Web Delivery Manager

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Web Delivery Manager / Software Delivery Manager / Agile / Waterfall / Software Delivery / Contract / 3-6 Months / Luton

My client is currently recruiting for an experienced Software Delivery Manager for a 3-6 month initial contract (plus extensions) to be based in their Luton office. Utilising your technical experience and leadership skills you will manage the various inter dependencies of project deliverable's across multiple releases and ensure suppliers and development teams deliver on time and on budget while maintaining high quality standards. You will be managing and coordinating developments for multiple projects and will work closely with Project Managers to ensure successful delivery.

The Role:

* Own products and/or components in terms of being fully accountable for the efficient, quality, and effective implementation of the relevant components /roadmap

* Work closely with the key business customers, stakeholders, external partners and all groups within the organisation to implement, evolve, support and own the software and system components to appropriate quality standards.

* Financial accountability including estimation and forecasting of developments.

* Build relationships with Business Leads, Project Managers and Business Partners, ensuring scheduling alignment for delivery of components within the wider release schedule

* Lead daily stand-ups with delivery teams and effectively manage expectations of IT and Business Stakeholders.

* First class technical leadership of the software development team including clear and concise technical guidance.

* Implement industry best practice processes and quality measurements across Development.

* Engagement with Project Managers on delivery of specific project deliverables and assist in planning, tracking and execution of overall project plan

* Work closely with the QA Manager to create a one-team approach between the development and QA teams to provide a high quality development cycle and an efficient and successful working environment.

* Work closely with Business Partners to understand and plan deliveries based on the overall portfolio objectives and business priorities - effectively plan and manage complex priorities based on risk and reward.

* Interact effectively with the Project Managers, Portfolio Management, Product Management, Architecture, Solution Design, Services Delivery and Support teams to ensure we build the quality products to support our business goals and customer experience.

* Liaising with senior members of supplier organisations both on-shore and offshore. Ensuring focus is on delivering quality in a cost effective manner from the suppliers.

* Assisting in the planning of the delivery of the backlog of defects and all types of changes

Experience:

* A proven track record in building high-performance, enterprise applications at scale, leading and managing teams on complex software projects

* Proven track record delivering software using agile and waterfall methods for software delivery.

* Technical acumen with significant prior experience with development technologies; keeping pace with technical innovation

* Experience in leading and managing software development teams, preferably in medium/large companies

* Well versed with software engineering practices (e.g. Continuous Engineering, Build/Deploy, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Test and Staging Environments).

* Working with distributed, redundant and transactional systems and the testing of these

* Experience of managing both on shore and off shore 3rd party supplies to cost, time and quality

* Risk and Impact Analysis - Identify and work with targets, dependencies and constraints

* Using source code control (Perforce, Subversion, git) in multi-branch environments and understand how to manage the complexity of multiple delivery streams

* Experience in using tracking systems (Rally, JIRA)

Skills and Technical Knowledge:

* Experience of Hybris Commerce and leading end to end implementation of large scale global B2B & B2C E-Commerce rollouts from inception to launch

* Good Knowledge of cockpits, profiles, contents, components, back-office, PIM and other important aspects of Hybris

* Delivered Hybris roadmap as part of a program of work or project

* In-depth knowledge of Web Content Management (WCMS) that provide rich end user experience to E-Commerce systems including Responsive Web Design (RWD) and Multi-Channel content rendering capabilities

* Extensive knowledge of performance tuning and for ecommerce platforms

* Good understanding of Omni-Channel Digital Marketing services including Web, Mobile, Print-Media and other peripheral services like Web Analytics, Campaign Management, personalization, etc.

If this sounds of interest then please don't hesitate to send an up to date CV for immediate consideration.

Spring is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. The Spring Group UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer.