Engineering Delivery Director London, UK

Responsibilities

• The primary responsibility of the position is managing delivery of multiple complex end to end digital transformation projects across various clients
• Hands-on technology practitioner who is able to suggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology to provide marketing differentiation, efficiency improvements, and better user experiences
• Create, present and advocate solution architectures and approaches with deep technical details; as well as conduct solution architecture review/audit, calculate and present ROI
• Participate in the full cycle of pre-sales activities, drive time pressured preparation of customer proposals (including fixed-price), define the implementation and design for the solution, present the proposed solution architecture to the customer and the statements of work from delivery perspective
• Hands-on delivery management experience covering the full project initiation and life cycle: lead management, qualification for the bid/financing, drive solutioning and staffing, client management, delivery and execution governance. Accountable for delivery from financial, sourcing, development and business perspectives & ability to stay “in the detail” with team’s work
• Run multiple delivery streams and clients, to ensure governance at top management level and conduct governance project meetings and identify successful and unsuccessful project factors and gaps
• Lead implementation of the solutions from establishing project requirements and goals to solution "go-live"
• Manage customer expectations and relationship. Manage & develop partnerships with CXO level client relationships, looking for opportunities to up/ cross-sell products and services through relationship management
• Work closely with multi-disciplined teams of product owners, architects, engineers and quality assurance to drive estimates, delivery plans and retrospectives. Identify and manage engagement risks and flag major issues early
• Hands-on management of delivery stream along with management & growth of a team of Technology Delivery Managers - providing coaching, mentoring and development support to drive up delivery capability across the department

Requirements

• Experience in building delivery teams and solutions. Proven experience in driving scalable enterprise initiatives
• Experience in leading large scale digital programs is essential for example (Ecomm, data, UX)
• Proven experience of hands-on managing delivery of an organization of 100+ FTE and or high business impact engagements of a similar size
• Proven experience in driving large-scale transformational initiatives, ideally initiatives in large enterprises impacting both organizational and technological components of an organization
• Experience with presales, contracting & management of Fixed Price type deliveries as well as Time & Materials agile programs
• Experience in building and leading geographically distributed delivery teams, including definition of target operating model
• Excellent communication, presentation, and planning skills are necessary, experience with working with nearshore teams preferable
• Expected to have exceptional organization, leadership and stakeholder management skills
• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree, MBA or equivalent business experience preferred
• Self-motivated, results driven, flexible, multitasking, reliable to deliver on time, a quick-thinker, be able to work in a fast-paced, highly entrepreneurial work environment

We offer

• We offer a range of benefits including
• A competitive group pension plan, life assurance and income protection
• Private medical insurance, private dental care and critical illness cover
• Cycle scheme Tech scheme and season ticket loan
• Employee assistance program
• Various perks such as Gym discount, Friday lunch, on-site massage and regular social events
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) (subject to certain eligibility requirements)
• Some of these benefits may be available only after you have passed your probationary period