Delivery Lead, UAE
Abu Dhabi
Lab49 – Product and Delivery /
Full-time /
Hybrid
LAB49 is hiring Delivery Managers for an exciting opportunity. Elevate your career with an unparalleled experience in one of the world's most dynamic business hubs. Join us and be part of a visionary team shaping the future of innovation and growth. Don't miss out on this extraordinary opportunity – apply now and ignite your career!
Delivery Managers/Project Managers at Lab49 will manage all aspects of delivering on an engagement with a client. Typically, it will be managing Lab49 Consultants to deliver software solutions for our Financial Services clients, however, it may also include related analysis and advisory work.
Responsibilities:
· Planning, tracking and risk management, within the context of Agile and Enterprise best practices. This includes financial management to fixed price delivery.
· People Management: project and team resourcing, promoting positive, collaborative, and productive team dynamics, conflict resolution, and personnel development. Includes global management of staff.
· Client Management: manage client communication, stakeholder expectations, and all aspects of the relationship as it pertains to the engagement to positive outcome.
· Quality Oversight: ensuring process and controls are in place to ensure quality from requirements through delivery. Delivery Managers need to have sufficient business and technology domain to ensure that quality is being delivered. The Delivery Manager will be responsible for ensuring the quality of deliverables.
· Contractual management: understanding and managing to the terms of the contract.
Additionally, Project Managers are consultants advising clients and supporting business development. This aspect of the role includes:
· Delivery consulting: being at the forefront of best practices and advising our clients in their practical application and guide them through process and organization transformation.
· Strategic planning and road map development for major technology transformations.
· Business development: develop client relationships, identify opportunities with them and help shape and deliver solutions and pitches.
· Being an ambassador for the Lab49 brand.
Requirements and skills
- Strong Project Management skills: planning, tracking, risk identification and mitigation.
- People management.
- Stakeholder management.
- Agile development methodologies.
- Working knowledge of the Banking.
- Working knowledge of typical financial flows and architecture.
- Excellent communication skills: able to represent the team, project, and firm in client situations, and similarly also be and advocate for the client.
- Minimum 7-12+ years of experience managing the implementation of financial services systems.
- Minimum 7-12+ years of experience managing small teams 5-12+ people.
- Minimum 15+ years of experience in IT Industry.
- Software development experience a plus.
- Strong Project Management skills: planning, tracking, risk identification and mitigation.
- People management.
- Stakeholder management.
- Agile development methodologies.
- Working knowledge of the Capital Markets.
- Working knowledge of typical financial flows and architecture.
- Excellent communication skills: able to represent the team, project, and firm in client situations, and similarly also be and advocate for the client.
