Manager - Technical Project Manager - Technology Consulting - Belfast

Technical Project Manager - Technology Consulting - Belfast

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you, we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

EY has a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of skills significantly.

Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services.

We are looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and confidence to make it happen.

Our opportunities will allow you to apply your expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career progression opportunities.

The team and the opportunity

EY’s Technology Delivery team drive transformational IT change programmes for our clients, helping them to realise their IT investments that underpin their core business objectives.

Our teams have the depth and breadth of experience across a range of technology disciplines, utilising industry best practices, processes, resources, tools and accelerators in project and programme management, and vertically integrated governance with our world class technology delivery focussed PMO.

This fundamentally underpins the delivery of cost optimised, stable, progressive IT infrastructure delivery and complex systems integrations supporting business growth.

Our “Agile in a Box” service offering quickly establishes a delivery model using a combination of EY Accelerators, methodologies and Agile industry frameworks and toolsets enabling accelerated digital adoption as part of wider waterfall programmes & projects.

The main services of our Technology Delivery team include

• We specialise in PRINCE2, Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and can adapt our delivery methodologies to each client’s preferred method of delivery.
• We offer industry-agnostic accelerators for the rapid deployment of a portfolio management office function to support small and large-scale transformation programmes.
• Our Service Now Specialists can help transform business with digital workflows for IT, Employees and Customers, enabling businesses to modernise operations, optimizing productivity, cost and resilience on a single platform.
• We have a dedicated Systems Integration team that deliver and manage programmes and projects, which are underpinned by systems development requiring complex systems integrations.
• We can quickly establish an agile delivery model using a combination of EY Accelerators, EY Methodologies and Agile industry-leading practices.
• Our Operations and Service Management team enhances, transforms, establishes, and executes operations based on leading service management frameworks.

New technologies and disruptive change are creating exciting opportunities: to work differently, to work better and to find new ways of creating value for us and the clients we serve.

As part of our Next Wave strategy, Technical Project Managers will provide Leadership, Support and Direction to support our client’s technology centric project and programmes.

We are looking to recruit high performing individuals with a proven track record in Technical Project Management to be part of our leading and growing Technology Consulting business.

By joining the Technology Consulting team, you will be helping our clients solve a wide range of challenges - from the requirement to respond to the ever-changing demands of the market, to overseeing large and complex technical transformation projects/programmes that truly transform our clients ways of working, 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.

What we offer and how we will support your Career progression

We offer a competitive remuneration package.

Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with Flex EY 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 and coaching 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

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

• Pension
• Discounted Health Insurance
• Web Doctor – Free unlimited online GP Consultations for you and your family
• The purchase of additional annual leave
• Hybrid Working
• Free Gym Membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Recognition Awards
• Cash incentives for Referrals
• Work Mobile
• Tech MBA paid by EY
• Wellness rooms available in some offices

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.

We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.

While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

• Your key responsibilities
• Client Responsibilities
• Take end to end responsibility for the mobilisation, delivery and benefits of large scale complex strategic and/or transformative technical projects following selected Project Management Methodologies.
• Plans, directs, and co-ordinates activities to deliver projects from mobilisation through to implementation by leading, directing and overseeing medium to large sized teams of project resources working across multiple workstreams.
• Influences and negotiates project outcomes, often across multiple functions.

Prepares and presents analysis, insights and recommendations to assist defined governance forums and senior client stakeholders with decision making.

• Maintain focus so that projects deliver on key priorities and dependencies and are managed to realise business benefits to agreed timelines.
• Identify and advise on project/programme level decisions that influence significant project direction and elevate decisions that cannot be resolved to the agreed governance forums.
• Internal Responsibilities
• Understand all our consulting service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients and be able to build meaningful external relationships with our clients and internal relationships across service lines
• Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative insights for clients looking to leverage their vendor framework, improve their IT offerings, execute on project commitments and adapt methods and practices to fit operational teams and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership
• Lead Technology Consulting engagements, managing team performance and commercials including conducting performance reviews and contributing to performance feedback for all levels of staff and managing engagement billings, and estimates to complete
• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
• Understand, follow and lead staff in workplace policies and procedures

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or IT related discipline, from a recognised third level institution
• Additional professional qualifications, such as PRINCE2®, PMP, PMBOK, SAFe or Diploma Level in Project Management or similar discipline from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body.
• At least 6 years’ 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 or at least 7 years’ experience working for a leading company, in delivery of technical projects or systems integration projects.
• A minimum of 3 years’ relevant experience onsite within the UK&I region, in one or more of our focus industries including: Power & Utilities, Government & Public Sector, Technology, Media & Telecoms, Advanced Manufacturing / Industry 4.0, Consumer Products & Retail, Financial Services or Life Sciences.
• Experience in one or more technology areas including but not limited to ERP, CRM, AI, Digital Workplace, CX, Cloud Migration and/or integrations, Data & Analytics, RPA, Emerging Tech, Io T.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – tailoring communications to suit a mix of audiences.

Experience communicating and presenting project information to project teams, finance and other stakeholders.

• Experience in the establishment, training and management of teams comprised of client, contractors and client’s strategic partners.
• Have a track record of delivery within multiple large-scale technical transformation projects.
• Have experience in seeking the alignment of business and IT, operating across organisational and technology silos to drive common approaches, delivering sustainable, agile and re-usable solutions
• Have a proven ability to be able to take a ‘big picture’ delivery and project management view as well as being able to work at a detailed level across a broad range of contract types and engagement approaches.

Ideally, you will also have

• Experience in tracking, monitoring, advising and maintaining status and actions across Project Budget, Risks, Issues, Dependencies and Benefits.
• Experience with Stakeholder Management and working collaboratively across IT, Finance and parts of the business to deliver project governance that meets client needs.
• Experience communicating and presenting project information to project team, finance and other stakeholders
• A continued ambition to further develop and learn, fostering an interest in innovative technologies
• A desire to identify new opportunities and help to create proposals to help solve our client’s most complex
• Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY.

We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds.

These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives.

Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential.

You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

• EY | Building a better working world
• EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions.

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