Technical Delivery Lead (3 month contract)
Technical Delivery Lead (3 month contract)
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Job Description
We are Two Circles. We are a Sports & Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues. We do that by knowing fans best. We work with clients to help them understand & influence what their fans are doing the way fans spend their money the events that fans attend the channels fans respond to the content fans watch and more. And we use the understanding this gives us to help our clients grow.
Grow their audiences and grow their revenues both direct to consumer and business to business revenues. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 900 clients globally including the English Premier League Red Bull UEFA VISA the NFL Nike and Amazon. We are almost 1000 people based out of 14 offices and we deliver work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.
The Technical Delivery Lead role sits within our rapidly expanding Delivery team. Its a fantastic opportunity for a highly technical handson delivery leader to help drive the success of a major programme at Two Circles.
Role Profile
The Technical Delivery Lead is responsible for the endtoend technical coordination and execution of a complex technology programme. You will work across multiple workstreams to ensure operational readiness build and execute the golive plan and stitch together technical dependencies to ensure delivery is aligned and progressing.
You will work closely with solution architects engineers and technical leadshelping identify critical paths and unblocking progress. You are technically confident deliveryminded and capable of translating strategy into action.
Youll also partner with the programmess Enterprise Architecture stream ensuring strategic alignment and delivery cohesion especially as the programme moves into its final stages.
You have strong consultancy and clientfacing skills with the ability to communicate technical detail clearly manage stakeholder expectations and build trusted relationships across client and internal teams.
Requirements
Technical Delivery
- Lead the execution of the technical delivery plan ensuring visibility and accountability across engineering workstreams
- Build and drive the golive plan ensuring solutions data and teams are ready for launch
- Coordinate operational readiness efforts internally and externally bringing together tech data content marketing and product to support launch success
- Track and manage incoming technical requests from various vendors) ensuring they are appropriately integrated across relevant workstreams such as Digital Products DWH MarTech etc.
- Collaborate closely with key technical workstreams (e.g. Enterprise Architecture AI) to ensure alignment between design implementation and delivery
- Identify and manage critical paths interdependencies and risks across delivery teams
- Coordinate delivery planning activities such as delivery schedules tracking notes actions and RAID logs
- Attend technical working group calls to monitor progress against technical delivery planning
- Ensure blockers are identified early communicated clearly and resolved quickly to keep delivery on track
- Coordinate across workstreams and testing teams to align release schedules with testing timelines ensuring clear communication of key dates and environment constraints (e.g. avoiding PreProd releases during load testing).
- Ensure visibility of monitoring and alerting across the the architecture so potential points of failure are clearly understood and issues can be identified and resolved quickly.
Stakeholder & Team Collaboration
- Work across crossfunctional teams including product engineering architecture QA and external partners
- Translate technical complexity into clear delivery language for nontechnical stakeholders
- Serve as a key delivery point of contact for technical queries dependencies and progress tracking
- Provide regular progress updates to the Programme team and other senior stakeholders that sit in different capabilities
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience leading complex technical programmes or projects
- Comfortable working with solution architects lead engineers and crossdiscipline teams
- Strong technical literacy across cloud (especially Microsoft/Azure) Solution/enterprise architecture and Content driven digital experiences and supporting capabilities.
- Skilled in identifying and managing critical paths and crossteam dependencies
- Solid understanding of Agile Waterfall and hybrid delivery methodologies
- Ability to operate in highpaced environments and bring clarity where there is ambiguity
- Experience with operational readiness release management or golive planning
- Experience working with tools such as Jira Confluence Smartsheet
Desirable
- Experience working with or within the Microsoft ecosystem
- Familiarity with technical programmes of work and implementing delivery models required to deliver succesfully
- Background in sports media or tech sectors is a plus
What We Offer
- A collaborative supportive and passionate team environment
- The opportunity to shape a major programmes success at a key stage of its lifecycle
- High visibility and impact within the wider business and client environment
- The chance to help evolve and define technical delivery practices at scale
Employment Type
Contract
