Senior Delivery Manager

🕒 April 20

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Simple Machines

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11 - 50 employees

Simple Machines is an Australian based firm of expert consultants at the intersection of data architecture, data engineering, data science and software application development. Our heritage is architecting and engineering highly performant, distributed, data driven platforms and machine learning applications that perform at massive scale. We partner with enterprise, governments and global technology companies to put their data to work in the real world.Simple Machines is a Preferred Confluent consulting and training partner providing specialist consulting services in Kafka. We are also Partners with Databricks and Lightbend, providing training and consulting services in Spark and Scala.

📋 Description

• **The Role:** • Stakeholder Management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment of project objectives. • Leadership: Leading cross-functional teams of software engineers, designers, and QA specialists to deliver high-quality software solutions. • Outcome and Value: collaborating closely with clients to gather requirements, define project scope, and ensure outcomes are aligned with business objectives. • Planning: developing and managing detailed project plans, timelines, and deliverables to ensure project goals are met on time and within budget. • Commercial Engagement: Define and manage the project scope through detailed Statements of Work. Act as the primary liaison between internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of project progress and expectations. Take overall responsibility for overseeing client projects, ensuring that they align with the company's goals and are delivered successfully. • Risk management: Identifying potential risks and owning mitigation strategies to ensure project success. • Process improvement: Identify ways to improve how Simple Machines deliver for the client and take ownership of the implementation of those improvements. • Efficiency of delivery: work with the Simple Machines and client teams to identify and resolve issues and inhibitors to success. Take accountability of the team’s velocity. • Expertise and advisory: build a deep and technical understanding of the client’s business and the work Simple Machines are delivering. Use that knowledge to become a trusted and reliable advisor to the client team.

🎯 Requirements

• **Ideal Skills And Experience:** • Expert level understanding of software development processes, including Agile, Scrum and Waterfall/Fixed Price. • Understanding of time reporting against projects and time tracking/burndown of time against budgets. • Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira, Trello, or Asana. • Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing project challenges. • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders in written and verbal form. • Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously, with a track record of delivering successful outcomes. • Ability to adapt to rapidly changing environments and manage competing priorities effectively. • **Professional Experience And Qualifications:** • 5 - 10 years of experience in a delivery management, technical project management, software delivery, or a similar role within a software engineering consultancy or technology-driven organisation. • At least 2 years experience working in a consultancy environment (data or software delivery) • Proven experience in leading and managing software development teams, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions. • Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and team members. • Strong organisational skills, with a keen attention to detail and the ability to manage complex project dependencies. • Familiarity with current industry trends and emerging technologies in software engineering.

🏖️ Benefits

• You’ll work on **interesting, high-impact problems** • You’ll build **modern platforms**, not maintain legacy mess • You’ll be surrounded by senior engineers who actually know their craft • You’ll have autonomy, influence, and room to grow