Senior IT Project Manager, Financial Services
- Recruiter
- Argos
- Location
- Milton Keynes
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 13 Dec 2018
- Closes
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sectors
- IT, Project Management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Refresh your career. Revolutionise Retail Financial Services. We're going digital in a big way and giving our customers more of what they want, when they want it. It's nothing less than a retail revolution - and we need all kinds of talent to lead and deliver it.
Financial Services is at the heart of this transformation with around 2 million customers and growing. You would be joining the Technology team at a crucial time in our journey. So whether you want to develop your career in IT Service, IT Architecture, IT Development, Risk, Security, or the PMO, there has never been a more exciting time to join us.
The Senior Delivery Manager is accountable for the management of the delivery of all IT activities from internal and external delivery teams in accordance with project plans and budgets.
What you'll be doing
Obtain, review and sign off estimates to support planning activity
Work with all IT functional teams to ensure activities are aligned to the project plans
Drive and agree delivery schedules with internal and external delivery teams
Responsible for ensuring deliveries are in line with agreed designs and completed to quality standards and budget
Facilitate plan review sessions and track progress
Support deployments and acceptance in service as required
Ensure plans and solutions are formally signed off by stakeholders
Facilitate post deployment review sessions feeding lessons learned into the approach to future projects
Task management of resources assigned to projects
How?
Work across the organisation to create a delivery plan
Manage technical conversations and planning activities with internal teams and 3rd parties to ensure successful delivery
Communicate well to business stakeholders across the organisation
Manage complex deliverables to agreed designs, budgets and timescales.
Provide advice and guidance to the project team members and take responsibility for their effectiveness
You
Hold a degree from a technology discipline
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
Extensive experience of the retail technical environment
Experience of managing developments into the production environment and managing 3rd parties and cross functional teams.
Exceptional detailed planning skills
Ideally experience working within Financial Services
Benefits
Bonus - 20%
Private Healthcare
Holidays - 24 with the option to buy up to 5 days per year
Company pension
Discount at Argos, Sainsbury's and Habitat
Sharesave scheme - Risk-free way to buy shares at a discounted rate
Share Purchase Plan
Childcare vouchers
Cycle to work scheme
Season Ticket Loan
Financial Services is at the heart of this transformation with around 2 million customers and growing. You would be joining the Technology team at a crucial time in our journey. So whether you want to develop your career in IT Service, IT Architecture, IT Development, Risk, Security, or the PMO, there has never been a more exciting time to join us.
The Senior Delivery Manager is accountable for the management of the delivery of all IT activities from internal and external delivery teams in accordance with project plans and budgets.
What you'll be doing
Obtain, review and sign off estimates to support planning activity
Work with all IT functional teams to ensure activities are aligned to the project plans
Drive and agree delivery schedules with internal and external delivery teams
Responsible for ensuring deliveries are in line with agreed designs and completed to quality standards and budget
Facilitate plan review sessions and track progress
Support deployments and acceptance in service as required
Ensure plans and solutions are formally signed off by stakeholders
Facilitate post deployment review sessions feeding lessons learned into the approach to future projects
Task management of resources assigned to projects
How?
Work across the organisation to create a delivery plan
Manage technical conversations and planning activities with internal teams and 3rd parties to ensure successful delivery
Communicate well to business stakeholders across the organisation
Manage complex deliverables to agreed designs, budgets and timescales.
Provide advice and guidance to the project team members and take responsibility for their effectiveness
You
Hold a degree from a technology discipline
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
Extensive experience of the retail technical environment
Experience of managing developments into the production environment and managing 3rd parties and cross functional teams.
Exceptional detailed planning skills
Ideally experience working within Financial Services
Benefits
Bonus - 20%
Private Healthcare
Holidays - 24 with the option to buy up to 5 days per year
Company pension
Discount at Argos, Sainsbury's and Habitat
Sharesave scheme - Risk-free way to buy shares at a discounted rate
Share Purchase Plan
Childcare vouchers
Cycle to work scheme
Season Ticket Loan