Delivery Manager
Duration:Until 30 June potential 12-month extension
Location of work:Canberra
The Delivery Manager will set up and perform that portfolio delivery management across key programs and business as usual activities that require appropriate scheduling, alignment, and governance.
*Key Responsibilities:*
1. Responsible for preparing and maintaining the value streams delivery plan, ensuring solutions are delivered to schedule, scope, budget, and quality
2. Identify and manage risks and issues that impact ability to meet deliverables within the delivery plan
3. Identify and manage dependencies with delivery teams, systems teams and enabling teams in collaboration with Release Train Engineer (RTE) and other Delivery Managers
4. Effectively identifying and resolving blockers, helping to remove delivery impediments to ensure objectives can be met
5. Work with the Product Manager and Owner to refine scope and set priorities for the team
6. Responsible for managing resources assigned to the value stream
7. Identification of resource gaps and constraints
8. Monitor and escalate requests for additional hours, leave and travel
9. Managing and recording pivot task requests
10. Accountable for leading Program Increment (PI) planning event for your value stream and presenting alongside Product Owners to the broader program
11. Accountable for milestones and successful transition between the delivery framework phases as per the solution roadmap
12. Accountable for value stream DevOps hygiene and accuracy
13. Responsible for collaborating with other Delivery Managers to identify improvements and best practice in ways of working
14. Responsible for communicating and reporting delivery plan project status, risks, and issues effectively with peers, executives, and governance forums
15. Responsible for performing additional duties or assuming responsibility of functions as directed from time-to-time by the relevant Director / Team Leader or delegate as required to ensure deliverables and milestones are met
About You:
* Minimum 5 years' experience in managing ICT projects to deliver to time, cost, quality, and scope
* Ability to foster team culture and lead small teams, including providing clear direction, effectively oversighting tasks and coaching to build high performance
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with influence, effectively interpret and synthesise technical information, and interact with people with diverse backgrounds and levels of seniority
* Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strategic relationships and manage expectations across varied stakeholder groups
* Demonstrated experience in the delivery of data exchanges, repositories and metadata models, including their governance controls
* Demonstrate the ability to work with business and data teams to derive actionable solutions from complex data
* Ability to effectively manage high volumes of work and competing priorities, including the ability to adapt and respond to change and manage changing team and stakeholder needs
* Ability to work with limited direction and a strong commitment to working harmoniously within a team to achieve positive
* Tertiary qualifications or industry recognised certification in Management, Project Management, or a similar field
* Demonstrated work experience managing/delivering large-scale ICT transformation programs/projects in an Australian Government setting
About Araza:
Our organisation works with Australia's largest enterprise and government clients providing project and program teams and resources to ensure success. We pride ourselves on being a trusted technology partner and working collaboratively.
We're partnering with a leading Australian department to deliver high-quality projects that drive impactful results, focused on protecting national interests through intelligence, cybersecurity, and strategic operations to combat global threats.
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Why Araza?
We are GREAT.Our purpose is to have our teams align with our client's needs to assist them on their most interesting and innovative projects. We do this by aligning our clients and teams to our core values of Be Greatand Be Grateful. This focus has helped make us an employer of choice and the consultancy of choice in the Australian market.
We are DIVERSE and INCLUSIVE. We are recognised leader in diversity with an excellent representation of women in leadership and a team with differing backgrounds, ethnicities, experiences and abilities.
We care. Araza is a company that cares for their people. It's that simple. You will work with truly talented switched on and collaborative team members that help each other to succeed.
We rock. #HumbleBrag is that a lot of other companies think we are great as well
Our awards list:
2023 CRN Impact Award – Emerging Innovation Winner
2020 Financial Review Fast 100
2020 Financial Times High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
2019 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia
2019 Deloitte Technology Fast500 APAC
2019 CRN Fast50
2019 ARN Homegrown Service Provider Winner
2019 EY Winning Women Program Winner
2019 Cisco Diversity Initiative Award Winner
2019 Cisco Rising Star Winner
Under 30 Tech Awards Winner
2018 CRN Fast50
2018 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia
2018 Deloitte Technology Fast500 APAC
2018 CRN Fast50
2018 ARN Start Up Entrepreneur Winner
2018 ARN Personal Innovation Sales Excellence Winner
2018 Westpac Business of Tomorrow Winner
2018 Financial Times 1000: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
2017 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia
2017 Deloitte Technology Fast1000 Asia/Pacific
2017 CRN Fast50
2017 ARN WIICTA Entrepreneur of the Year Winner
2017 Westpac Business of Tomorrow Winner
2017 Optus myBusiness Business Leader of the Year Winner
2016 Deloitte Rising Star
2016 CRN Fast50
Next Steps
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