Technical Delivery Lead

Technical Delivery Lead - End of Life Applications

6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - £550-£600 per day

London based - hybrid working - 2 days a week onsite

Banking sector

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the delivery of End-of-Life (EoL) remediation initiatives within the Bank, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Define and agree approaches and how EoL will be mitigated in different scenarios, e.g. technical upgrade or more involved re-architecture/re-design versus where we might be able to risk accept in a planned initiative will mitigate the risk in the short term.
• Lead and co-ordinate governance meetings and tracking including risk, issue and dependency management. Monitor progress and provide clear, data-driven updates to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with accountable owners, development, infrastructure and test teams to define, prioritise, and deliver product backlogs and roadmaps.
• Ensure delivery milestones and timelines are adhered to.
• Maintain effective communication across business stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners.
• Provide timely updates to the COO/Control and Audit teams. Ensure remediation plans are accurately reflected and tracked in Archer by L1 delivery teams.
• Ensure the resourcing of this work is sufficient to meet the agree plans.
• Define a EoL remediation model that continues beyond the mitigation of the current book of work; ensure that teams understand the importance of managing EoL risk.

Qualifications, Skills, and Experience

• Hands on leader with proven ability to execute and drive outcomes across a matrix team.
• Proven experience as a Technical Delivery Lead for EoL projects within IT, preferably in a banking or financial services environment.
• Experience managing multiple technology initiatives/projects across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to drive accountability for remediation across many teams at the same time.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with project management and Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
• Excellent delivery tracking and co-ordination of resources.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, solutions-oriented mindset.
• Experience working in regulated environments and understanding of relevant compliance requirements.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.