Technical Programme Manager

Overview

ENSEK is a technology business operating in the global energy sector. The Programme Manager is a key role within ENSEK’s Flow Engineering Enablement Team (FLEET). This team is responsible for delivering internal architecture and operating model transformation initiatives in partnership with ENSEK’s technology teams. Initiatives focus on continual improvement and optimising “time to value”. The role provides programme management and leadership with strategic oversight of technical and delivery pipelines, and involves stakeholder engagement at all levels, including supplier contracting and management, resource and capacity management, project planning, risk and issue management, reporting, and communication.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and setting up the project delivery with a clear project methodology definition, governance arrangements and resource plan.
• Managing Flow Engineering Enablement Team partnerships with ENSEK’s technology teams to deliver architecture transformation projects, optimise workflows and support team transitions to new team topologies.
• Ensuring that project milestone delivery dates and resourcing plans are agreed with the project steering group, key Technology team stakeholders and the PMO Manager.
• Working with project teams and stakeholders to plan all project deliverables and day-to-day activities.
• Administering ENSEK’s project management tooling to maintain live views of the project delivery roadmap, with a breakdown of activities, owners and due dates.
• Engaging with project stakeholders and supplier delivery managers to review delivery plans, risks/issues and track actions.
• Chairing regular project team meetings to review progress and assess delivery risk.
• Tracking and escalating project risks, issues and actions.
• Chairing regular project steering group meetings with the project sponsor and senior stakeholders.
• Preparing updates for ENSEK’s Executive Leadership team and Board on project progress.
• Managing the performance of vendors aligned to project deliverables to ensure delivery in line with outcomes.
• Delivering internal updates and communications on project progress, including maintenance of a dedicated SharePoint site.
• Facilitating retrospectives with project teams to continually improve partnering and project delivery.

Technical Skills

• Demonstrable experience delivering large-scale transformation and business change initiatives within a technology/software as a service business.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate and manage technical delivery and resources.
• Strong understanding of agile, waterfall and hybrid working practices and ability to coordinate multiple streams in a cross-functional environment.
• Experience using project/work management tools (ENSEK uses Aha! and Azure DevOps).
• Ability to prioritise and manage delivery risks and issues.
• Ability to write internal and external facing reports clearly showing project progress and technical topics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical teams.
• Understanding of software engineering workflows.
• Desirable: facilitating key project workshops and domain-driven design knowledge or experience.

Soft Skills & Experience

• Attention to detail and quality while considering the bigger picture.
• Experience in fast-moving agile environments across a large engineering team.
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal/external stakeholders and influence senior stakeholders to drive change.
• Resilient, customer-focused with a positive can-do attitude.
• Curious and active in external communities, staying up to date with industry developments.
• Organised, dependable, adaptable and able to juggle multiple tasks and priorities under pressure.
• Problem-solving ability to keep projects on track and deliver to target.
• Ability to work remotely with limited supervision and to collaborate with distributed teams.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Project Management and Information Technology
• Industries

Note: This description reflects the responsibilities and qualifications for the Technical Programme Manager role as advertised by ENSEK.