Delivery Director

Explore a connected marketplace

We connect data, markets and customers to create a comprehensive, trusted view of the global commodities markets. For our customers, the intelligence we provide is empowering, which as a result influences thousands of decisions across supply chains every single day. We believe the right culture has the same effect. Our culture empowers our people, giving them the confidence and inspiration they need to achieve their aspirations, thrive on innovation and explore more.

We have 200+ people in Tech, but with UX, Product and Data now growing quickly, we’re in the right place to hire people who want to help squads take ownership of what they are delivering and more importantly how we go about it. We have offices in central London (Bishopsgate) and Surrey (Sutton) and value face to face meet ups in a hybrid work environment.

As a Director of Delivery, you manage agile delivery managers and scrum masters who make sure data engineering squads have the optimal environment to create and transform products. In this position, you will lead the team to define and improve agile organizational processes as we transform our product offerings and re-imagine our ways of working in matrix-managed teams.

• Responsible for the line management of delivery managers and scrum masters including hiring, on boarding, and career development.
• Responsible for the creation of agile working environments that will promote matrix teams to deliver value to customers in incremental steps
• Be accountable for complex tech-driven delivery and maintain active communication across multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Create transparency and predictability across data engineering and product teams using appropriate tools and metrics that matter
• Work with the product team to maintain pipeline of work for delivery teams, identifying and resolving gaps, issues and facilitating priority decisions where needed
• Contribute to the collaborative planning process, prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of squads
• Understand commercial drivers and business strategy to ensure appropriate programme/project prioritization and ensure this is reflected in delivery plans
• Lead definition of agile ways of working, methodologies/standards and provide guidance on good practice
• Have an opinion around the technical and architectural decisions within your delivery work-stream

Candidate requirements

Previous experience as an agile delivery/programme manager

Proven track-record of successfully delivering complex products to market

Ability to connect and align people to plans and be the glue in the cross functional relationships

Ability to to create consistent and repeatable process using agile methodologies

Passionate about coaching for high performance and creating an agile culture

Technical side of things.

Extensive, demonstrable experience building complex digital products and internal facing systems across web applications.

Passionate about software engineering best practices include agile, TDD, continuous delivery, micro services, event driven architecture, domain driven design

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment both as an individual contributor and act as a technical partner to business teams

Benefits

The opportunity to work on a full range of interesting projects – become familiar with concepts related to large scale/high performance data processing, scoring & analytics Make a real difference to our customers and society Connect with a growing, diverse and sociable team who enjoy regular team building, games nights and quizzes Experience dedicated time for innovation alongside opportunity to deliver creatively Enjoy access to a wide range of self-paced, online training Join regular seminars, interactive workshops and resource groups, supporting your future growth and development Give something back to the local community, take two days paid leave per year to volunteer

Women in Technology LexisNexis Risk is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology: Mentoring scheme for women in technology Women’s network forum Regularly run events for schools about careers in technology to inspire the next generation of girls in technology

At Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions Group having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 35 diversity employee networks globally and prioritise ensuring inclusive leadership is part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

We encourage applicants and employees to tell us about any health issues they may have to allow us to put in place reasonable adjustments that may support applicants in the application process and support employees to succeed in their role.

Our Benefits

In addition to all of this, we offer the following 'core' benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (with option to buy up to 5 days)
• 3 discretionary days over Christmas
• 2 paid charity days, where you get paid to help the community (as a business we do a lot of charity work)
• Pension
• Life assurance scheme (4*Salary)
• Share options scheme
• Private Medical Insurance

We’re a superb company to work for, with great people, world class technology, market leading products, a culture of innovation and collaboration, and superb career prospects.

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we believe in the power of data and advanced analytics for better risk management. With over 40 years of expertise, we are the trusted data analytics provider for organizations seeking actionable insights to manage risks and improve results while upholding the highest standards for security and privacy. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, LexisNexis Risk Solutions serves customers in more than 100 countries and is part of FTS 100, RELX Group plc, a world-leading provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

LexisNexis is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

We are proud supporters of Women in Data®.  Connect, engage and belong to the largest free female data community in the UK – visit: www.womenindata.co.uk to join our community.