IT Delivery Lead

Seven Resourcing are looking for an IT Delivery Lead to work on an interim basis with Bristol County Council for an initial period of 3 months.

37 Hours Per Week

Up to £395.88 Per Day (PAYE) or up to £500 Per Day (Umbrella)

Will need to attend Bristol County Hall at least once a week

The Job-

Person with the authority, responsibility, and technical ability to plan and implement complex IT solutions, delivering them to budget, time and quality requirements.

• Manage the successful delivery of one more complex technical IT implementations on time, to budget and quality, through appropriate adherence to Bristol City Council’s technical and architectural standards, reporting to the Head of Digital Strategy & Transformation and ultimately bringing the implementation(s) to successful completion.
• Manage the budgets allocated to their technical implementations, in accordance with Bristol City Council’s financial procedures and regulations; managing actual and forecast expenditure to within agreed tolerances and reporting variances to the Head of Digital Strategy & Transformation, as necessary.
• Prior to the commencement of a technical implementation, lead the business in exploring options, fully costing these, identifying the optimum technically feasible solution, and defining realistic and measurable benefits (including establishing suitable benefit owners and putting in place appropriate benefit realisation plans), to support informed decision making.
• Build, maintain and execute a fully integrated, realistic, and deliverable end to end technical implementation plan (including any standalone contingency, transition, testing and/or training plans), identifying key milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, critical path, and associated assumptions, in line with any overarching departmental plans (as applicable).

Applicant Requirements-

• Experience in an IT Delivery Lead (or equivalent) role within a change environment with detailed knowledge of principles, methods, techniques & tools associated with the implementation of complex technical solutions and how to apply them to best effect and measurable benefit.
• Skilled at challenging the accepted way of doing things, seeing answers to problems, and offering innovative solutions in a way that supports informed decision-making.
• Evidence of success in building and managing effective working relationships with stakeholders at all levels of authority; building and managing effective project teams
• Evidence of effective risk and issue management within a technical system implementation context.