Delivery Manager – Data Engineering

DELIVERY MANAGER – DATA ENGINEERING

Luton/Hybrid

Company

When it comes to innovation and achievement there are few organisations with a better track record. Join us and you’ll be able to play a big part in the success of our highly successful, fast-paced business that opens up Europe so that people can exercise their get-up-and-go. With almost 300 aircraft flying over 1,000 routes to more than 32 countries, we’re the UK’s largest airline, the fourth largest in Europe and the tenth largest in the world. Set to fly more than 90 million passengers this year, we employ over 10,000 people. Its big-scale stuff and we’re still growing.

Team

The role is responsible for managing technology and/or solution delivery for a system/platform, its constituent components and interfaces and dependencies with other systems. Work closely with the business systems teams and service management teams to deliver change as part of a prioritised portfolio of work, working to time, cost and quality parameters, and provide a level of on-going support in the production environment. Delivery execution may be often be through centre of enablement or third party teams based of criticality to the business .

Job Purpose

To shape and manage future direction of easyJet’s Data Engineering practice, focused on defining, designing and deploying critical analytical pipelines supporting high-quality and reuseable data assets:

Job Accountabilities

· Manage technology delivery for a system(s)/platform overseeing a portfolio of change comprising both small changes (BAU) and larger projects, and the resulting technical releases to the agreed schedule, within quality parameters and to budgets.

· Primary point of contact for programme/project managers, business stakeholders and Service Management for technical matters of delivery and day to day operations.

· Ensure adequate support (resources and processes) is in place for the technologies in scope. Resolution of incidents and problems within SLA, ensuring correct resource and suppliers are utilised.

· Where applicable, line management of development and test staff, including performance management, mentoring and coaching.

· Matrix management of other staff (e.g. config management) and supporting processes to enable overall technology delivery, in particular ensuring non-production environments and test data are fit for purpose to deliver agreed scope.

· Manage delivery of technical components via 3rd parties (which may be offshore) in line with contractual terms where applicable

· Maintain estimates, teamwork plans, and ensure effective resourcing to meet delivery commitments (time, cost and quality).

· Ensure all design and quality governance processes are followed in line with the direction set out by Strategy and Architecture.

· Attention to non-functional aspects of the system, including performance, security, capacity planning, DR etc. Ensure appropriate plans and preventative measures are in place to avoid operational risk.

· Work with Technical Architects (where applicable) to ensure a ‘system/platform roadmap’ is

· necessary for operational stability, maintainability or performance improvement – items that contribute to a lower TCO.

· Continuously drive process improvements both team internal and in the wider IT community.

· Foster a culture of engineering excellence and dynamism, embracing innovation

· Ensure compliance with the SDLC where methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall…).

· Ensure early identification of risks, issues and dependencies and prompt escalation as required.

· Establish close working relations with relevant teams across IT.

Key Business Skills Required

• Extensive experience in managing a portfolio of technology delivery.
• Experience in managing a development team to deliver quality solutions, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experienced in working with third party organisations and off-shore development teams.
• Excellent vendor management and supplier relationship skills, including monitoring of deliverables to contractual terms.
• Solid understanding of technical levers on delivery, including application design, technical standards, methodology and tooling; ability to exercise judgement on priorities or compromises that might be needed to meet delivery commitments.
• Experience in creating and leading delivery and technical teams with a track record of motivating and inspiring them.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with other teams in IT and business sponsors.

Desirable Skills/Experience

· Familiar with SDLC models, a broad range of delivery methods (Agile and Waterfall) and successfully driving improvements in this area.

· Experience working in a continuous delivery environment and embracing a DevOps culture.

· Understanding of operational procedures and process standards (e.g. ITIL) and the ability to apply and evaluate them for continuous improvements in the service.

· A good knowledge and understanding of the wider picture and longer term, good problem solving skills with the ability to present and manage trade-offs for the shorter term.

What you’ll get in return

· Competitive base salary

· Up to 20% bonus

· 25 days holiday

· BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes

· 7% pension

· Life Insurance

· Work Away Scheme

· Flexible benefits package

· Excellent staff travel benefits

About easyJet At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.

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Complete your application on our careers site.

We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.

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