Technical Delivery Manager

Job Title: Technical Delivery Manager
Location: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.  If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs

Hybrid Working 
Structured hybrid role:    
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Introduction 
•    Member of the Pune Technology Team
•    Responsible to work on automation of work carried by operations team.
•    Technical leadership for at least one application
•    Hands-on development across the applications

What will you be doing?
•    Accountable for creating project deliverables that meet or exceed the expectations of the project stakeholders.  Co-ordinates with team members, including those from suppliers and external vendors
•    Overall accountability and end-to-end delivery management for a set of technology related initiatives as defined by our business and portfolio framework
•    The role will require work to be undertaken on multiple projects/releases at a time, collaborating with Business Analysts, Designers and developers as well as support and Infrastructure teams during and for the release of software components within the project scope, ensuring quality and timeliness of the delivery.
•    Own and drive the Project planning framework, ensuring that plans are developed and tracked to appropriate standards, are integrated effectively across all work-streams, are unambiguous and achievable, and that dependencies are clearly understood and managed
•    Manage and co-ordinate projects, their interdependencies, and associated risks and issues, escalating to the engineering leads to ensure project delivery
•    Control the Project scope, ensuring that rigorous change control is exercised
•    Ensure that all Project status reporting is accurate, informative and timely, and directly provide progress reports.
•    Escalate for management intervention wherever gaps in the Programme/Project are identified or issues arise
•    Provide ongoing monitoring of the Project to confirm that delivery meets the Project's objectives and continues to make effective use of available funds and resources
•    Creates and manages detailed Project Implementation Plans, ensuring resources in place and outages agreed
•    Ensure all change record are submitted and closed within established timeframes
•    Conducts Go/ No-go meetings
•    Produces project implementation communications

What we’re looking for:
•    Minimum Qualification – B.E. / B. Tech or equivalent.
•    Must have experience of working in an IT project environment and an understanding of IT and business strategies. Experience gained from outside the Bank can be very valuable particularly large organisations and/or suppliers or manufacturers.
•    Must have previous experience of Managing projects in IT Organisation
•    Preferable to have release, delivery management experience in messaging/communications space
•    Must have specific technical knowledge in one or more aspects of the IT profession, i.e. technical design.  
•    Ability to work with an existing body of code (maintenance, feature additions, debugging, etc) and process Focused and make less dependent structures
•    Governance and compliance policies, standards, and procedures required to fulfil role e.g. data security, records management.

Skills that will help you in the role:
•    Awareness of management information tools and systems 
•    Stay in tune with emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them to operations and activities
•    Self-motivated personal development/training – including mandatory training
•    Ability to plan and manage own workloads
•    JIRA, Confluence, Java/Webservices
•    Be hands-on with data analysis and deep-dive data mining; investigate databases on a regular basis with a certain degree of proficiency in SQL
•    SDLC: Environment management, QA process, Reviews and checklists, lineage, promotions, backup and recovery, data area management

Where will you be working?
Pune

Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.
Purpose, Values and Mindset 
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done. Read more