Technical Delivery Engineering – Senior Manager

EY
Delivery Engineering – Senior Manager

New innovations and technologies are disrupting the business environment. Organizations that want to remain competitive must embrace innovation or risk being left behind. At EY, we help our clients solve large and complex end-to-end business transformation challenges through a combination of human-centred design thinking, business innovation and digital technology.

In Digital Engineering we shape, concept and build innovative solutions that address the most important issues and opportunities for our clients. Our consultants work in agile, cross-functional teams to solve some of most significant issues facing society today, such as transition to sustainable energy, digitisation of government, scaling high-growth businesses, exploiting the potential of AI, moving to a post-Covid world and improving wellness with digital healthcare.

The core capabilities of our team include:

• Digital strategy, horizon scanning, and strategic planning. Working in combined teams with Business Designers, Researchers, Strategists, Industry and Functional Specialists, we develop a vision, roadmap and case for change to address fundamental issues facing our clients, such as “how can we grow?”, “how do we respond to disruption?” and “what can we do next?”
• Digital technology delivery management. Using principles of lean start-up and agile, we manage large-scale delivery programmes that include custom software and SaaS solutions, using an ecosystem of EY, client and partner agency resources. We have a range of skills across programme management, solution architecture, product management, business analysis and delivery management,
• Digital software engineering. Many of our solutions involve custom engineering of unique solutions and experiences created from modern web-scale technologies, such as HTML5, JavaScript, Micro-Services, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning.

As a technology specialist, EY offers you the opportunity to apply your skills in a highly strategic context, working on meaningful and impactful solutions that build a better working world. EY is a leader in Business Transformation services and the Digital Engineering team is a rapidly growing to enable us to deliver more of our technology work without needing to rely on ecosystem partners. This is an exciting time and new joiners will have many opportunities to make their mark on the business and accelerate their personal and professional growth.

The opportunity

As a Senior Manager – Delivery Engineering, you will provide technical leadership across one or more large engineering delivery engagements.

You will also be responsible for managing performance of your team and will actively coach and mentor more junior members of the team.

You will work alongside the team to help shape and build our delivery engineering capability through building client relationship and contributing to business development activity. As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.

Your key responsibilities

• Participate in cross-functional teams focused on digital strategy definition, providing inputs on what is possible with technology, feasibility of concepts and complexity sizing
• Shape, define and implement software engineering delivery models for clients, including requirements processes, engineering delivery, quality and release
• Implement and oversee quality management processes to ensure consistent and high-quality software assets are created through delivery
• Manage relationships with senior client stakeholders in terms of shaping requirements and concepts for effective implementation
• Manage stakeholders in client technology functions (CIO, CTO, CDO) to ensure that our delivery results in software that can be effectively deployed, operated and leveraged in the long term
• Continually assess software delivery quality and productivity, resolving issues that are impacting on team progress
• Assign and oversee the daily tasks of team personnel while ensuring all team members are actively working toward established milestones
• Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities for team members required for specific projects or initiatives

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong track record of delivering large scale technical transformation across a variety of industries
• Proven ability to oversee multiple streams of work, including across multiple locations
• Broad understanding of digital and customer-led change activities across finance, research, service design, process, operating model, technology, marketing and user experience
• Ability to work and team effectively with clients and high-level leadership as well as influence all team members
• Passionate about developing and mentoring more junior colleagues
• Excellent communication skills – tailoring communications to suit various audiences, with the ability to translate IT strategy into measurable business benefits

To qualify for the role you must have

• Bachelors and / or master’s degree in design, business or technology subject areas or relevant experience
• Experience working in a client facing role for a leading consulting or professional services company in delivery of large-scale complex technical projects or systems integration projects
• Demonstrated track of delivering over 3 large digital projects, with responsibility on each that extends beyond software delivery
• Experience working in an agile environment, where agile and/or lean practices and approaches are applied as a way of working to deliver technology products
• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising product teams
• Experience working with off-shore and near-shore teams
• Experience mentoring, coaching and developing rising talent
• Experience of shaping, selling, contracting and delivering programmes end to end
• A willingness to travel and work in client sites, both in the UK and overseas as and when required

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

Apply now.