Technical Project Manager

• Technical Project Manager – Technology Delivery – Technology Consulting – Belfast

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

At EY the Technology Delivery executes and drives end-to-end transformational IT-centric programmes and projects by delivering solutions, which encompass people, process, and technology. We tailor our delivery approach, in order to execute on IT and ICT Strategies, and realise the IT investments that underpin core business objectives for our clients.

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 ServiceNow 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 NextWave 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 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.

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 escalate 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.

• A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or IT related discipline, from a recognised third level institution .

• At least 5 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.

• Experience in one or more of our focus industries including Power & Utilities, Financial Services, Government & Public Sector, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods, Tech and Media, Advanced Manufacturing / Industry 4.0.

• Experience of one or more technology areas including but not limited to ERP, CRM. Digital Workplace, CX, Cloud Migration and/or integrations, Data & Analytics, RPA, Emerging Tech, IoT, Blockchain.

• Experience in the establishment, training and management of teams comprised of client, contractors and client’s strategic partners.

• Excellent communication skills – tailoring communications to suit various audiences, with the ability to translate IT strategy into measurable business benefits.

• 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 the 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:

• 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.

• 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.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY 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

• Maternity & Paternity leave

• Discounted health insurance

• Bike to work Scheme

• Web Doctor – Free unlimited online GP consultations for you and your family

• Recognition Awards

• The purchase of additional annual leave

• Cash incentives for referrals

• Hybrid Working

• Work Mobile

• Free Gym membership

• TECH MBA paid by EY

• Travel Pass