Product Delivery Director - PA26Q1PDDJH069

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Locations: London, UK | Hybrid

Benefits

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

Responsibilities

• Working with our agile teams to ensure the tooling, processes and ways of working are in line with our internal policies and that we are continually improving the way we are operating.
• Promoting and being an evangelist for agile delivery practices, in addition to working in a product operating model.
• Managing and leading a team of Agile Delivery Leads, providing coaching and mentorship, enabling their development.
• Acting as an individual contributor as an Agile Delivery Lead where appropriate.
• Managing the delivery process followed by each of our agile teams, including applying the right methodology to the right circumstance.
• Managing dependencies between agile teams and other functions in technology such as Infrastructure and Cyber to optimise delivery.
• Partnering with colleagues in Project Management, to translate items in the delivery plan and other associated metrics into date-based milestones.
• Scheduling sprints and ensuring the agile team keep to the planned sprint cadence.
• Coordinating releases, interfacing with the Project Manager to ensure alignment.
• Ensuring the agile team has a robust mechanism for engagement with other stakeholders.
• Facilitating the carrying out of Pen tests, and other Cyber deliverables.
• Ensuring the agile team has appropriate mechanisms in place to visualise and forecast how work is completed.
• Working with Product Operations to define meaningful metrics to aid successful delivery of products.
• Ensuring agile teams are set up with appropriate tooling to track and manage work.

Qualifications

• Software development lifecycle in an Agile environment
• Behaviour Driven Development
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Jira, including Jira administration
• Confluence
• Real-life project management experience and a proven record of delivery
• Experience of Agile practices, including Scrum
• Experience of mutual funds and the broader financial services industry is preferred
• Agile project management, particularly where agile delivery processes are used within the context of a broader project structure
• Knowledge of the Product operating model
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification preferred
• Building and implementing SaaS products in a financial environment or other regulated industry preferred

Communication

• Clear and assured communicator of their area's role within the broader company.
• Provides clear and fair feedback to colleagues and encourages a feedback culture within the organisation.

Conduct

• Tactful and politically savvy in all matters relating to their role.
• Leads by example and operates in a transparent, open and inclusive manner.

Teamwork

• Able to support and unblock those both within and outside of their team.
• Trusted adviser to own manager, and others in the senior management team.

Leadership & Management

• Motivates and unites the team behind a common cause.
• Steadily able to manage team members and other people managers across all stages of team development.
• Designs and owns processes and procedures that allow for efficient and effective execution of work.

Knowledge

• Wide breadth of knowledge and high-level understanding of all areas they own.
• Strong understanding of the wider business context in which the company operates.

Delivery and Impact

• Ability to balance risk and complexity when devising delivery plans.
• Thorough, credible and showing attention to detail across all areas of work.

Problem Solving

• Solves complex or ambiguous business problems, individually or through organisational means.
• Builds consensus to solutions where there is divergent opinion through negotiation and agreement.

Organisation

• Defines the roles and responsibilities within their function.
• Establishes resource requirements within their function.

Ownership

• Accountable for the results delivered by their area of the business.
• Able to act independently.

Planning

• Able to plan both strategically and tactically and brings structure and organisation to complex problems.
• Create processes that lead to efficient and consistent decision making.

Influence

• Influences different areas across the company, including at senior management levels.
• Mentors others.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website at www.ssctech.com/careers.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.