Infrastructure Delivery Manager.

***SC Cleared***
Infrastructure Delivery Manager
6 Month contract initially
Based: London 2 days p/w + Remote
Market rates (via Umbrella company)
We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We a great opportunity for an Infrastructure Delivery Manager. on a great program of work.
Key Responsibilities:
* Management of key technology deliverables, partnering with the business project manager, working within agreed processes, leading to successful delivery against plan.
* They will coordinate Technology activities and manage dependencies to deliver the required work packages across the project.
* Reporting Infrastructure progress against plans to the PM and managing / escalating exceptions to the PM and project governance boards
* Building key internal and external networks in order to hold effective negotiations
* Managing resource demand, securing commitments from all relevant Technology groups & providing effective reporting.
Key Skills & Experience:
- The delivery of IT related projects.
- A strong emphasis on quality, accuracy and meeting deadlines.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advise senior staff on area of expertise and present at Project Board / Delivery Board meetings business decisions at senior management level.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisation & facilitation skills.
- Capable of planning and strategic thinking. Demonstrates forward planning of own work, and that of their delivery team in alignment with the overall project.
- Self-motivated and able to work calmly under pressure.
- Able to acquire the appropriate resources to delivery against agreed requirements driven from the solution design
- Able to quickly identify and resolve issues and flaws in product -delivery and resource competencies so that they can be escalated appropriately.
- Awareness of gated processes and required deliverables.
- Experience of delivery in both a waterfall and Agile manner.
- Awareness and management of Risk identification & mitigation.
- Good understanding of a typical project and systems development lifecycle
- The ideal candidate will have relevant professional experience and /or appropriate industry qualifications
This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible.
Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.
Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.