Senior Delivery Manager

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Job Description

Senior Delivery Manager- Chase UK

Here at JPMorgan Chase & Co., we know that people want great value combined with an excellent experience, from a bank they can trust. So we launched a new digital bank called Chase - to revolutionize mobile banking by creating seamless digital journeys that our customers love. We deliver a wide range of projects across multiple product areas, supporting product, marketing and operations to resolve complex problems and enable delivery in cross-functional full stack development teams.

Our Delivery Team is at the heart of building this new venture, focused on enabling the speed of delivery to market of new products and initiatives. We take on responsibility for removal of impediments, whether it's co-ordination with another team, getting a decision from a stakeholder or ensuring the team remained focused on the product vision. All of our projects are Agile with integrated teams of creative and technical specialists.

Our Delivery Team is made-up of delivery managers who want to be a part of building something new from the ground up within a diverse and inclusive team. Culture is as important to us and we are looking for intellectually curious, new technology passionate individuals who would like to expand their skills whilst working on a new exciting venture for the firm. Your work will have a massive impact, both on us as a company, as well as our clients and our business partners around the world

SUMMARY OF ROLE/JOB DESCRIPTION -

The Senior Delivery Manager role is for an experienced, disciplined, delivery-focused, and pro-active Lead who has demonstrated execution of a digital product business in a scaled agile delivery framework. The Senior Delivery Manager will be able to coach squads, resolve complex problems and enable highly skilled, cross-functional teams. You'll be working with product teams responsible for delivering products across Europe.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for initiative level planning and alignment, data based forecasting, reporting, and identifying and resolving program level risks, dependencies, impediments and blockers.
• Responsible for end-to-end delivery quality, managing the flow of work across several delivery squads, the impact of dependencies, and progress towards key deliveries within and across squads
• Enable continuous improvement and high quality outcomes through the application of Agile methodologies, as well as analysing and improving the squads by acting on metrics
• Support the Product leads in the successful project delivery, while collaborating within a team of Delivery Leads across Product lines.
• Communicate to a wide range of stakeholders and client teams, aligning them to the delivery strategy and ensuring shared understanding of reporting and desired outcomes
• Influence Squads to adopt Lean/Agile practices and improve ways of working with pragmatism
• Become a trusted advisor the technical and product leads collaborating with them to deliver business and user value

Skills/ Qualifications should include:

• Delivered a range of digital products to customers using Lean/Agile methodologies, including with Kanban
• Led and supported multidisciplinary teams that have included designers, testers, developers and product managers
• Bring a history of championing Lean/Agile ways of working, adapting to delivery frameworks and recommending improvements without being dogmatic
• Managed and worked within budgets and time-pressured environments
• Used delivery data to forecast key deliverables and communicate a project's status clearly with senior clients and stakeholders
• Proactively spotted risks to delivery and helped teams mitigate them
• Great facilitation, diplomacy and negotiation skills
• Ideally experience of the Atlassian toolset Jira and Confluence
• Previous experience in retail banking would be a plus

When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you're not just working at a global financial institution. You're an integral part of one of the world's biggest tech companies. In 20 technology centers worldwide, our team of 50,000 technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $10B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will are transforming the financial services industry.

At JPMorgan Chase & Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we're building a technology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you're looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.

J.P. Morgan offers an exceptional benefits program and a highly competitive compensation package.

J.P. Morgan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

The Digital team is dedicated to creating innovative, industry-leading products and experiences that help customers access, share and control their financial data so they can make smart decisions with their money. Teams enable innovation while adhering to the firm's data sharing principles of security, customer control and convenience, and privacy.