Award of Delivery Lead

Tender description

1 x Delivery Lead based in Edinburgh or Glasgow, currently working from home. The Delivery Lead will: • Chair the Delivery Integration Boards actively managing plans and dependencies • Manage the Delivery Integration team and ensuring they comply with the standards of the programme. • Manage the planning relationship with the delivery partners including other government organisations such as the Department for Work and Pensions. • Liaise with the wider Programme Management Office function to ensure the Delivery function is operating effectively within the wider governance structures. • Have responsibility for ensuring the delivery of multiple services with which the SSA core system will integrate with. • Be able to understand both business and technical dependencies between services and manage across them • Have first class interpersonal skills and the ability to work closely with technical teams, business focused and third-party stakeholders. • Be delivery focused and pragmatic in approach • Reconcile conflicting concerns of different stakeholders • Be a key player in business and technical governance processes Main Duties • Support a team of Delivery Integration Managers • Assure and maintain multiple plans across multiple organisations • Manage DWP, HMRC, Local Authorities and other third-party suppliers • Collaborate with external suppliers to ensure that their solution meet our requirements, including application design and integration points/APIs. • Be the main point of contact and coordination between the project team and the external suppliers • Participate in key governance processes that control decisions impacting the delivery of the interfaces and communicate these decisions effectively • Ensure that the proposed solutions can be delivered within appropriate the timescales • Validate and monitor the supplier costs associated with delivery of the interfaces • Be proactive in identifying risks to a successful delivery and escalating any concerns as early as possible