Delivery Lead - Digital Products Wealth

About the role

The Delivery Lead co-owns and facilitates the delivery of the Wealth Tribe's initiatives together with Tribe leads and Product Owners, fostering collaboration, continuous learning, innovation and an engineering culture among squads. The role works closely with business Tribe leads to define strategic initiatives and with senior leadership to shape long-term delivery strategy, and manages product dependencies of Digital Product epics and features delivered by IT platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Manage product dependencies of epics and features, placing them on the backlog of the relevant IT teams with priority and delivery commitments, and track them while mitigating risks
• Oversee delivery using Agile methodologies and drive Agile maturity across teams
• Act as primary escalation point for stakeholders (product owners, business units, vendors) and lead cross-functional teams including developers, testers and business analysts
• Track OKRs and KPIs and report to the Head of Digital Products; promote innovation and continuous improvement through retrospectives and lessons learned
• Ensure digital products meet quality, security and regional regulatory standards
• Support technology and business tribe heads in tracking product funding and budget utilisation, and run product portfolio reviews with tribe leads, business owners and IT leadership, updating the PMO
• Manage resource capacity, help raise resource demands and support hiring and placement, and take part in resource fitment interviews when needed
• Help set up new squads, size new demands and onboard vendors and partners
• Facilitate release management by aligning dependent IT platforms and teams, and own end-to-end release management
• Guide other delivery leads, manage product OPEX and AMCs, and oversee technical health, resilience and production issue resolution within SLAs

Required profile

• Graduate degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• 10+ years of overall experience, including 5+ years in banking/financial domain and 3+ years in wealth domain
• 4+ years of function (Agile) and 3+ years of function (release management)
• Minimum 3 years of banking IT expertise
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to discuss issues with senior stakeholders

Required skills

• Project management methods (Prince2/PMP)
• Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
• AWS or Azure SA certification
• Detailed knowledge of wealth management processes, asset classes (bonds, funds, stocks, IPOs), equity trading, MIP, Lombard lending and market pricing