Delivery Manager

Job Description

Who We Are:Sparta Global is a leading provider of technology consulting services providing cross-functional teams to power short-term and long-term projects with relevant skills - within government and private sector organisations; fintech, media, insurance, retail,legal, travel, property, technology, start-ups - for over a hundred organisations within the UK.We invest in recruiting high-calibre graduates and build them into high-performing consultants through our intensive training boot-camps within our nationwide Sparta Global Academies, in the areas of Software Development, Manual Testing, Test Automation,SDET, DevOps, Business Analysis and Project Management, who work for our clients on-site.Role Summary:A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Delivery Manager to join our Technology Consulting Services business and initially to be part of a recently awarded long-term Managed Service.Role: Delivery ManagerEnd Client: Global Online RetailLocation: London / RemoteDuration: Initially a 6 Month FTCSalary: Competitive + BenefitsRole overviewThe main tasks of the Delivery Manager will be to manage and support a team deployment and be responsible for the management of their day-to-day tasks within in the Engineering team. The role is predominantly people focussed, ensuring our Spartans are workingproductively, communicating across the various teams and are being supported whilst onsite.As a Delivery Manager, you must have a good understanding of various technology skills in Systems, Software Architecture, Infrastructure and have practical experience of public cloud services.Requirements

• Team leadership and people development skills
• Experience of project delivery, workload prioritisation and resource management.
• Supporting and mentoring junior team members and building L&D plans
• Experience in customer stakeholder management and leadership
• Assessing customer feedback and using creativity to establish, improve, and refine services.
• System/software architecture awareness - with a core focus on DevOps practices within Continuous Deployment/Delivery life cycles
• Infrastructure experience, that covers Architecture, Networks, Cloud, Testing, Environment Management, ITIL
• Experience of working with a wide stakeholder group including 3rd party suppliers
• A good understanding of the development process with quality assurance in mind ensuring that testing is automated throughout
• Awareness of system operational needs across 1st, 2nd and 3rd lines levels of support

Skills:

• Communication - Strong communication skills, both written and verbal to engage with a variety of business stakeholders both technical and non-technical
• Influence -- Working at senior management level, establishing and maintaining effective programme and project stakeholder partnerships.
• Eager to take on new challenges to develop the service by developing others, contributing to the overall managed service for Sparta Global

Benefits:

• Life insurance which is 4 times gross salary from day 1.
• NEST Pension
• We have 23 days leave plus 1 day birthday leave. This goes up every year by 1 until reaching 25. Plus 8 days bank holiday a year.
• Vitality health care for you and the family
• Post probation we have a cycle to work scheme