Job Introduction
Main Responsibilities
- Coordinate with engineering, operations, and support teams both locally in the UK and our Group organisation to drive delivery of Cloud hosting capabilities.
- Build effective and positive relationships with colleagues both in the UK and Group ensuring optimal ways of working and clear accountabilities.
- Establish ways of working for Infrastructure and DevOps teams and setup and run team ceremonies where necessary.
- Manage delivery in accordance with the Bank’s project change management methodology.
- Ensure all necessary documents and artefacts are in place, toll-gates are adhered to and clear auditability of key decisions made from start to finish.
- Prepare required status reports and provide regular updates to stakeholders and Governance forums on project progress and performance.
- Manage the delivery within typical controls, such as:
- Resource and financial management (forecasting and tracking).
- Planning, including dependency management.
- Scope management (including change control and assessment).
- Risk and issue management.
- Clear roles, responsibilities and decision-making authorities.
- Establishment of design and delivery stage gates.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability within the cloud delivery team, promoting professional growth and development opportunities.
Ideal Candidate
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- Recent experience of delivering Cloud infrastructure projects, ideally within the Financial Services environment.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects in a value focused organisation.
- An understanding and experience of cloud solutions such as Azure.
- Experience working with agile and DevOps methodologies is preferred.
- Team Player. Enjoys collaborating with, learning from, and teaching others. Assumes good intent in others, and actively does their part to make a positive work environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to produce comprehensive reports/briefings for senior stakeholders.
- Pragmatic approach to problem solving.
- Knowledge of UK Banking Regulatory processes and security best practices for cloud environments is desirable.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology or a related field (or equivalent) is desirable.
Check our Handelsbanken website for further information
At Handelsbanken, we deeply value our unique culture and values including trust in and respect for each individual. We take pride in nurturing a work environment where people flourish, and where they are empowered to take decisions in their areas of expertise. We take a long term perspective in everything we do and want each employee who joins us to build a long terms successful career with the Bank.
What is in it for you?
- We have a wide range of learning and development available, empowering and enabling our colleagues to take ownership of their own development.
- Competitive Salary and an extensive range of benefits is provided, including private medical insurance, income protection and life assurance
- A market-leading pension contribution of 15% paid by the bank, which can be invested in a wide range of funds (including ESG and Shariah funds)
Application next steps
Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken recruiters will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if you match the role requirements. If there is a mutual fit, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.
There will be a two stage interview process with a combination of technical and competency based interview questions.
How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an interview or you have any requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process – just let us know by email uk_talent@careers.handelsbanken.co.uk.
This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.
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