Technical Delivery Lead
Capco – The Future. Now.
Capco is a distinctly and positively different place to work. Much more than consultants, we are active participants in the global financial services industry. Our passionate business and technology professionals enjoy a unique environment where they are actively encouraged to apply intellect, innovation, experience and teamwork. We are dedicated to fully supporting our world class clients as they respond to challenges and opportunities in: Banking, Capital Markets, Finance Risk & Compliance, Insurance, and Wealth and Investment Management. Experience Capco for yourself at capco.com
Let’s Talk About You
You want to Own Your Career. You’re serious about rising as far and as fast as your work and achievements can take you. And you’re ready to write the next chapter of your career story: a challenging and rewarding role as a Technical Delivery Lead.
Let’s Get Down To Business
Capco is looking for ambitious team players to join and support the growth of our business. This is a chance to join one of the fastest growing and exciting consultancies, with an opportunity to grow with the company as it expands.
About the Role
Responsibilities
Description
- Manage cross-functional team of IT professionals to support assigned partner requirements.
- Responsible for project delivery for application sets within their scope, commissioning projects to be executed by technology project managers.
- Establish day-to-day management direction, define priorities and strategies consistent with business goals and aligned to the technology leadership team’s direction.
- Communicate business vision, goals and portfolio priorities to team members (e.g. Application Owners / Development Managers, Business Systems Analysis, Platform / Service and/or Technology Project Managers etc.).
- Develop impact assessments, manage delivery schedules, perform risk assessments to consistently manage operational processes (time reporting).
- Work with project managers to ensure they comply with the capacity forecasting process, report on portfolio progress, status, overall health and individual applications.
- Assess issues or change requests, determine what to report.
- Manage vendor relationships, communicate promptly and accurately, resolve issues, monitor financials (e.g. against contracts).
- Work on project risk and scope assessments; help clients, project managers, and vendors produce broad project plans, budgets, and deliverables.
- Engage with IT leadership to reinforce focus on reusability, scalability and enterprise-wide solutions (and to maximize returns on product suites).
- Measure, monitor projects, stay within budget, meet or exceed expectations.
- Assess work plans, identify scheduling issues, report and escalate, as needed.
- Track deliverables; share updates; support initiatives aimed at cost reduction and faster time-to-market.
- Ensure there’s understanding of operational, reputational, and intellectual risks, advise to minimize, escalate if necessary.
- Maintain high level of customer service, ensure commitments are met; recommend appropriate actions to enhance service levels, through effective service level management practices/ agreements.
- Ensure business requirement understanding and apply knowledge to prioritize new and existing project delivery.
About You
Experience
Capco is looking to hire an ambitious, team-player with project management experience.
- Strong, dedicated experience within the financial services industry
- 8+ years of project management and implementation management
- Senior Project Manager with experience leading large application development projects
- Demonstrated leadership of complex development projects
- Experience with software re-write / re-engineering / re-factoring projects
- Able to lead deep-dive technical discussions for solutioning
- Able to provide estimates for duration/effort of design/development activities
- Experience and capabilities to speak with customer leaders to extract expectations, influence direction and manage expectations
- Excellent people skills
- Comfortable speaking and presenting to senior stakeholders and clients
- Ability to think strategically and execute tactically, enabling cross-business teams
- Ability work in fast pace environment while following best practice and company process
- Highly driven and passionate about customer satisfaction, product development and technology
- Excellent oral, listening, and written communication skills
- Excellent presentation skills
Professional experience is important. But it’s paramount you share our belief in disruptive innovation that puts clients ahead in a tough market. From Day One, your key skill will be to perceive new and better ways of doing things to give your clients an unfair advantage.
Now Take the Next Step
If you’re looking forward to progressing your career with us, then we’re looking forward to receiving your application.
Capco is well known for its thought leadership and client-centric model that distinguishes it from other consulting firms. Capco’s strong technology and digital knowledge base, it’s global experience of the Financial Service enables us to deliver projects from strategy through to delivery. We are committed to providing new areas of expertise from which our clients will greatly benefit.
We have:
- Access to industry-focused talent globally
- Ability to leverage best-of-breed, innovative products and solutions for complex architecture and large-scale transformation
- Extended global geographic market reach
- Ability to capitalize on our client footprint and deep domain expertise within financial services
For more information about Capco, visit www.Capco.com.
Capco is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
