Senior Delivery Manager

Senior Delivery Consultant   

At Ensono, our purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation. 

We help our clients think and do, delivering strategy and software engineering that gives them the confidence to take on their toughest challenges and improve the lives of their people and customers.  

We have worked on a variety of projects from cloud service integrations, building Data Lake and Microservice platforms, through to building apps, voice recognition platforms and offering digital strategy consulting. We have worked across several industries, with clients including Screwfix, Next, Travel Lodge a Gym Group. 

We are ranked 8th in the UK's Best Workplace 2022 list, 30th on the E-consultancy Top 100 Digital Agencies 2019 list (7th in the Technical Agencies list) and recent winners of Best Cloud Native Project and Best Digital Services Company of the Year at the International Cloud Awards.  

About the role and what you will be doing: 

As a Senior Delivery Manager at Ensono Digital, you will be playing a key supportive role within your project as part of an agile delivery team, working across the full SDLC on an exciting project and helping that client to realise the business benefit of an investment into the cloud.   

Ensono Digital has a diverse set of communities, as well as your core competency, that you’ll be encouraged to contribute to, and learn from, where projects and client commitments allow. 

You will be a self-starter, and proactive in your project work and your career, continuously looking for ways to add value to your community and Ensono Digital. 

What you’ll bring to Ensono: 

You will be working across the SDLC on large, complex and scalable projects with high volume and high availability microservices. As such, we are looking for someone who will bring their skills and experience:           

• Proficiency with Azure DevOps and Atlassian products for Agile Delivery Management
• Proficiency with spreadsheet and project management software for core project management activities
• Experience delivering projects within Agile Software Delivery Methodologies and promoting engineering techniques to aid a Lean Software Engineering objective of minimizing waste and maximizing value to Ensono Digital clients.
• Ability to generate clear and detailed project plans centered around the project critical path, deliverable and activity sequencing and dependency planning
• Defining the planned releases and transition of working software into a production environment and ongoing operational support in the context of Ensono managed services and client-side operational support processes.
• Creating a collaborative team environment where everyone’s opinion is heard, but you know when to be assertive, back down or escalate 
• Providing direction to your delivery team(s), resolving challenges and being responsible for outcome 
• Supportive of client goals and builds influence through continual delivery excellence and reliability         
• Great communication skills, in particular: presenting, collaborating and partnering with stakeholders     
• Understanding of how to identify and manage stakeholder expectations associated with a project based on their power and influence against a project’s goals and objectives and commercial obligations.
• Understanding of risk management and how to establish a risk management process that identifies, qualifies and quantifies a risk, how to plan risk responses against a forecast proximity and how to manage risk throughout a project lifecycle.   
• Can confidently manage multiple small/medium project budgets (both Time and Materials and Fixed Price) with understanding of the commercial and contractual impacts of project change
• Comfortable with the creation of different scenario forecasts with associated margin analysis to support commercial planning
• Curiosity and openness to innovation: actively seeking out and experimenting with new platforms, tools, and AI-driven approaches to improve delivery efficiency, team collaboration, and client outcomes.
• Contribution towards activities within the Delivery Management competency, supporting knowledge sharing and helping us meet our competency goals
• Builds awareness of emergent trends and market changes in industries relevant to client projects. Recognizes opportunities for Ensono and supports business development initiatives such as presales

What we can offer you:  

We will give you a place to strive and grow, where you will have the opportunity to work on interesting, yet challenging projects. Applying your thinking to build a better world founded on intelligent technologies. 

We are a people-first business, which means people are at the heart of everything we do here. We offer our consultants a safe environment where knowledge sharing, and open communication is encouraged. Whether at one of the internal monthly events, such as Lunch & Learns, Tech Time, and internal competency meet-ups, or at one of our community groups, such as football, gaming, yoga, or wellbeing; we have strived to build a business where everyone feels welcomed, included, and valued. 

Benefits

We believe that great work deserves great rewards. In return for your ideas, commitment and ambition, we’ll give you a very competitive base salary and a range of benefits as soon as you join. On top of your highly competitive base salary, we offer: 

• Flexible and remote work opportunities
• Performance bonus
• Training and development programs
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Community outreach and mentoring opportunities
• Learning platforms
• My Benefit system
• Wellness Platform support from Virgin Pulse
• Associate equity program
• Life insurance
• Lunch card
• Study leave
• One paid day off for charity events
• Sabbatical  
• Extended parental leave  
• Rental or co-financing of office equipment
• Referral bonus program