What are the responsibilities and job description for the Delivery Manager position at Anblicks?
Key Responsibilities
Program & Delivery Leadership
- Own end-to-end delivery of GDP workstreams across multiple domains, ensuring commitments are delivered on schedule, within scope, and with high quality.
- Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, and executive reporting.
- Lead daily, weekly, and monthly governance forums with client stakeholders and Anblicks leadership.
- Drive execution across distributed onshore and offshore teams.
- Proactively identify delivery risks and implement mitigation plans.
- Ensure effective resource planning, capacity management, and release readiness.
Stakeholder Management
- Serve as the primary delivery liaison between client business, data, architecture, governance, and engineering teams.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders including product owners, domain leads, architects, and program sponsors.
- Provide executive-level updates on project status, risks, financials, scope, and accomplishments.
- Facilitate decision-making and resolve cross-functional dependencies.
Technical Delivery Oversight
- Lead delivery of data products built on the GDP ecosystem including:
- Snowflake Data Platform
- SnapLogic Integration Frameworks
- Data Quality and Governance Solutions
- Ontology and Semantic Models
- App Orchid Applications
- AI and Agentic AI Initiatives
- Ensure adherence to architecture standards, security controls, data governance, and operational excellence.
- Coordinate solution architecture reviews and oversee technical design decisions.
Agile Program Management
- Lead sprint planning, backlog prioritization, release planning, and program increment management.
- Establish delivery metrics, velocity tracking, productivity reporting, and quality KPIs.
- Drive continuous improvement across engineering and delivery practices.
- Ensure proper documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness.
Financial & Contract Management
- Track project budgets, burn rates, and forecasting.
- Manage statement-of-work commitments and change requests.
- Optimize utilization and delivery efficiency across teams.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
- 10 years of software, data engineering, or platform delivery experience.
- 5 years managing large-scale enterprise data platform programs.
- Proven experience managing multi-million-dollar fixed-price or managed-services engagements.
- Strong delivery management background in cloud-native data ecosystems.