Delivery Lead, Product Engineering & Delivery

Job Description

We are looking for an Delivery Lead to own end-to-end delivery for a portfolio of products within Digital Human Health. This is a senior people manager role responsible for building and running a high-performing largely outsourced delivery organization that partners closely with Product Management to turn roadmaps into shipped working software on time and on budget.

The specific platform scope for this role may shift based on business priorities and could include areas such as identity management or digital content platforms (content creation supply chain and medical-legal review workflows).

• Own end-to-end delivery accountability for the assigned platform(s) planning execution and risk management with on-time and on-budget outcomes as the primary measure of success.
• Establish and maintain delivery governance including roadmaps release calendars dependency mapping and escalation paths ensuring strong release planning and delivery predictability.
• Monitor and report delivery health (velocity burn-down budget vs. actuals and milestone status) to senior leadership.

• Serve as the primary delivery partner to Product Managers translating product roadmaps into resourced sequenced delivery plans a core high-visibility dimension of the role.
• Build strong working relationships with Security Enterprise/Solution Architecture and peer Delivery Leads to ensure delivery is aligned de-risked and consistent across the broader platform landscape.
• Communicate delivery status risks and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders including senior leadership.

• Build and scale the delivery organization over time progressively improving the ratio of employees to contractors as the team matures.
• Own the relationship and performance management of external delivery partners/SIs including SOW scoping resource ramp-up/down capacity planning and quality of delivered work.
• Hold vendor teams accountable to delivery commitments cost targets and quality standards managing escalations and remediation plans when performance slips.
• Partner with procurement/vendor management functions on contracts renewals and commercial terms as needed.

• Own the platform budget across licences operations and delivery teams.
• Continuously track spend across licences run/operational costs and both FTE and vendor delivery.
• Forecast burn and future needs flagging variances early.
• Stay on budget managing trade-offs to hit financial targets.
• Report budget vs. actuals to senior leadership.

• Bring credible hands-on-informed engineering leadership to guide technical decision-making and hold delivery teams (internal and vendor) to strong engineering standards.
• Partner with architecture on solution direction relevant to the platform in scope (e.g. identity management or digital content/DAM/MLR workflows).

• Significant experience leading software engineering and delivery teams at scale including managing through line managers/leads (not just individual contributors).
• Proven experience managing outsourced/vendor delivery models SOWs offshore/blended teams and vendor performance management.
• Hands-on or leadership-level experience with Adobe platforms (e.g. Adobe Experience Manager/Adobe Experience Cloud) and/or identity management platforms (e.g. Okta SailPoint ForgeRock Ping) candidates with strength in one and willingness to flex into the other are encouraged to apply.
• Strong track record of Agile/Scrum delivery in a complex matrixed enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery against budget and schedule commitments with clear ownership of outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills particularly partnering with Product Management.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical life sciences or other regulated commercial environment.
• Familiarity with digital content supply chain and medical-legal review (MLR) processes.
• Experience managing globally distributed teams across time zones.

• Product Managers experience the role as a trusted responsive delivery partner.
• Delivery consistently lands on time and on budget across the assigned platform portfolio with issues surfaced and resolved proactively.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5 weeks annual leave5sick days15days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities12weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner

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