Job Introduction
Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value.
We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity.
Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk.
We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their expertise, and contribute to meaningful change. We look for people who care about quality, security, long-term impact, and who want to shape the future of a relationship-led bank.
We also recognise that flexibility can support people to perform at their best, and that it looks different for everyone. While arrangements will depend on the requirements of the role and the needs of the business, we are open to having a conversation around what flexibility could look like for you.
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The opportunity
Delivery Manager (Financial Crime) 12 month day rate contractor
Our team serves as the dedicated delivery strategy and transformation hub within Handelsbanken Plc, focused on the successful and controlled delivery of our modernisation and growth agenda. Sitting within the bank’s technology function the team works to optimise the delivery of value to meet our customers’ needs and the bank’s business objectives, deliver the bank’s strategic modernisation and transformation goals, and move to modern scalable technologies.
We are looking for a Delivery Manager on a 12 month day rate contractor basis to support the delivery teams to adopt a solution, recently implemented by our Swedish colleagues, that will replace a number of Financial Crime technologies used for screening checks (PEP, Sanctions, Name Screening). The teams work in an agile manner and this role will focus on ensuring key governance artefacts are completed, all dependencies are actively managed and supporting the team to ensure they maintain focus on agile values, have the resources they need as a team to be successful, and are constantly inspecting their ways of working to identify and experiment with improvements.
Key responsibilities
The teams work within a wider work stream structure and the Delivery Manager will be expected to contribute to the ongoing needs of the work stream in terms of visibility, transparency and improvement by:
• Supporting the delivery team to achieve their outcomes, balancing pragmatic decision making with the change governance and controls framework.
• Manage financial, capacity and progress tracking for the delivery team, working as part of a wider workstream of similar teams, providing transparency to support the workstream lead with updates and governance needs.
• Working with the product owner and technical lead, support the delivery team to prioritise work against the team’s stated outcomes, measure progress and manage risks towards the outcomes
• Support the delivery team to organise their work, identify and resolve impediments and identify and manage dependencies with other internal Handelsbanken teams and external supplier teams.
• Supporting our enduring team model, guiding the delivery team members through the full delivery lifecycle (from discovery to live service) for their prioritised backlog items.
• Maintain the team focus on feedback and continual improvement, encouraging and supporting experimentation with ways of working and ensuring lessons learnt are understood and acted on.
• Work across the bank to ensure alignment with product direction and strategic architecture and promote a secure by design mindset.
• Manage and evolve team stakeholder relationships that are needed for successful delivery.
What we’re looking for
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- Experience of successful delivery in Financial Services, including Financial Crime processes and technology re-engineering, with multi-disciplinary delivery teams• Experience in complex and phased project delivery including data migration, system integration and live service running
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Has the ability to build teams, strengthen relationships and establish effective networks with stakeholders, both internally and externally
- Experience in both waterfall and agile delivery methodologies
- Experience with Atlassian or other similar planning and collaboration toolsets
- Growth mindset and outcome focused
- Agile and / or Project Management qualifications (desirable)
Why join Handelsbanken
We want everyone at Handelsbanken to feel supported, motivated, and able to do great work. As a contractor, you will work alongside brilliant colleagues and contribute your expertise in a collaborative and professional environment.
Application next steps
Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken Talent Acquisition Partners will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if your experience aligns with our requirements, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.
This advert will be live for a minimum of one week. However, please note that after the one week, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.
The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.