Senior Delivery Manager UAE
Senior Delivery Manager Description
Job #: 74621
The Senior Delivery Manager will be accountable for the overall project delivery, client satisfaction and management of expectations while ensuring that the work is on strategy, on time and within budget. You will be working alongside globally renowned and award-wining Design, development and technology teams who are passionate about what they do and how they do it. You will play a key role building strong business and technology relationships, take a ‘hands on’ approach to define and deliver, and embody and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
The primary responsibility of the position is managing delivery of complex end to end digital projects across various clients in the region.
The primary responsibility of the position is managing delivery of complex end to end digital projects across various clients in the region.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on technology practitioner who can 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
- 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"
- 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
- Expected to have at least 10 years in IT and at least 5+ years in positions of a Project / Program Manager, Coordinator, Solution / Systems / Enterprise Architect; Delivery Manager
- Experience in building delivery teams and solutions. Proven experience in driving scalable enterprise initiatives
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Drive innovation in Enterprise Service Management
- Develop the processes and procedures required to deliver the services
- Ensuring that ESM policies, processes and procedures documentation is created, updated and maintained as well as communicated across the organization
- Provides strong leadership, guidance and direction related to ESM and provides advice and counsel to staff on ESM principles
- Develops, monitors, and reviews monthly reports for all ESM tickets
- Monitors the quality and consistency of work delivered by staff in Service Management Office as well as for the Technical Support team
- Interacts and works closely with staff across the business to understand their goals and needs, and to better align ESM with business needs
- Develops system for ESM maturity measurements and performs maturity analysis and reporting and implements and monitors business feedback of processes and tools
- Proposes, contributes to, and maintains effective organizational-wide ESM processes, as well as division/cross-team service processes; promotes and leads continuous improvement in ITSM to improve customer satisfaction
- Experience in building and leading geographically distributed delivery teams, including experience in working with customer’s distributed team and defining right target operating model
- Cloud Technologies: Hybrid Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Private Cloud (VMWare)
- Excellent communication, presentation, and planning skills are necessary, experience 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, flexible, multitasking, reliable to deliver on time, a quick-thinker, be able to work in a fast-paced, highly entrepreneurial work environment
- Languages : English (fluent) , Arabic (optional)
We offer
- Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
- Opportunity to work on leading edge platforms, working in a fast-paced, agile, software engineering culture
- Knowledge-sharing with colleagues from EPAM's global tech communities
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Regular performance feedback and salary reviews
- Opportunities for professional growth
About EPAM
- EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential
