Technical Delivery Lead

Location: Farringdon London, Hybrid 3 days onsite 2 days remote

12 Months contract with possible renewal

This role is required to lead the technical transformation and delivery of the Non-Financial Regulatory Reporting platform working with the engineering teams, operations partners and third-party vendors. This is not a project management role. It is a technical delivery role so requires understanding of software development and technology platform migration.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for technology delivery of the platform migration project from pre-project to implementation
• Responsible for leading multiple delivery streams to deliver successful project outcomes
• Plan, track and manage budgets & resources
• Vendor management SOWs, budgets, invoice approvals, resource onboarding/offboarding and governance through regular governance meetings
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to team
• Partnering with business stakeholders, architects to understand business requirements and low-level technical design
• Plan, manage, track delivery through a combination of agile tools and traditional planning tools where required to ensure overall delivery across all streams are sequenced and tracked
• Ensure risks are pro-actively managed and highlighted in right forums to seek support for resolution
• Deliver project in guidance and adherence to Banks software delivery, security, release management standard & guidelines
• Ensure all deliverables, checkpoints are planned and delivered to meet the banks standards and quality gates
• Pro-active planning on development dependencies and plan and track them to closure
• Ensure quality standards are built into the development phase with a quality first approach
• Measure and monitor progress and quality using data-oriented approach
• Participate in scrum of scrums and cross stream meetings to discuss, highlight dependencies across systems
• Conduct regular checkpoints (daily scrums, weekly project meetings) and track actions to closure
• Put in change management processes to manage and deliver agreed business outcomes
• During test phases, actively drive defect fixes to meet SLAs, measure and manage defect density, re-open rates
• Promote a culture of inclusiveness and have active participation from the team during team meetings and standups
• Identify areas of improvement from each sprint and work towards continuous improvement to improve sprint velocity and quality

Requirements

• 12+ yrs SDLC experience with a track record of successfully delivering complex projects
• At least 5 years' experience in managing large scale projects & building applications from scratch using APIs, data marts and cloud-based products
• Strong project/program management skills
• Prior experience in managing virtual teams in onsite/offshore model
• Development background and the right level of experience and expertise to coach and design, plan and deliver complex applications
• Agile execution expertise
• Ability to work under pressure and strict deadlines
• Own overall delivery and drive teams velocity
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Go-getter with a keen focus on delivery

Desired Qualifications

• Regulatory reporting experience with regulations like Dodd Frank, CFTC, MIFID I and II, HKMA, MAS, ESMA/EMIR
• Listed and OTC derivative and cash products across asset classes
• Working with GTRs like DTCC, ICE, ARM/APAs like UnaVista, TRADEcho
• Experience as a full stack developer
• Data modelling and development experience
• Database experience - SQL, MSSQL, Oracle and NoSQL
• Caching Technologies like Redis
• Cloud development/migration experience
• Python
• TDD development
• Hands on experience with Testing (Playwright and ALM Octane), Test Automation
• Hands on experience with Messaging Queue Technology (Kafka, MQ)