IT Project Manager (Cloud/Agile/Scrum)

Description:

IT Project Manager (Cloud/Agile/Scrum)

Lloyds Banking Group

London, Halifax of Leeds - please only apply if able to work in one of these office location 2-3 days per week post covid

Salary & Benefits: �57,139 to �79,496 base salary (location dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and home working 2-3 days per week.

Who are Lloyds Banking Group and where does this role sit?

Lloyds Banking Group is on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need help to do it.

Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank needs to be from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing, all to show what an engineering-led organisation can do.

This role sits within our cloud centre of excellence. Cloud is central to digitising the Group and building our LBG Bank of the Future . It enables us to increase technological pace and resiliency and to decrease capital expenditure.

Our Cloud Centre of Excellence will put in place Cloud best practice; a community of experts that will face new challenges around software, security, resilience, finances, and risk; and will create the capability to adopt Cloud technology securely and at scale across our business. 

What will I focus on in this role?

You'll work within an Agile feature team to coordinate the delivery technology projects focused on our usage of cloud technologies such as Platform as a Service (Paas) and Iaas/Saas. The Lab you will work within will be made up of multidisciplinary professionals including engineers, analysts, architects, business users, product owners and anyone else required to deliver projects in an agile way.

You'll be supporting business readiness, ensuring that releases are packaged and governed appropriately, and users (colleagues or clients) are ready to receive them along with supporting run activity to maintain live applications to a high standard.

We'll be seeking to transfer your knowledge and expertise of change delivery whilst acting as a servant leader to feature team operatives. You'll also support feature team members with the LBG governance & control framework along with conduct and compliance.

Specific activities which you’ll be responsible for include things like;

 * Planning, resource management, governance & control activities

 * Task management of staff in the lab

 * Driving Agile working practices including Scrum based delivery

 * Incident management

 * Coordinating with software engineers, product owners, analysts, customers, technical specialists and relevant SMEs to ensure successful delivery

 * Stakeholder management

 * 3rdparty management of engineering, testing and security activity

What do we need to see from applicants?

We like people who come from diverse industry backgrounds and are not precious about if you have worked within financial services before as long as you have a solid working history in a modern Agile IT Project Delivery role in a regulated environment.

As a minimum to be seriously considered we would need to see evidence in your CV of the following:

 1 A prior background working at a mid – senior level, as a modern Agile IT Project Delivery person, comfortable with software engineering projects.

 2 Background delivering technology programmes, ideally cloud (Iaas, Paas, etc) but we’re happy to train you around cloud technologies as long as you have the core PM skills and a desire to learn.

 3 Good planning, resource management, governance & control, RAID, identifying and removing blockers, and budget management experience.

 4 Good stakeholder management and general people skills, including being comfortable engaging people at director level.

 5 3rdparty management experience.

 6 Comfortable working with the likes of software engineers, product owners, business analysts, quality automation testing staff and customers!

What else would be handy? (but please apply if you have the above)

Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.

What can I expect in Return?

We're dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential!

As a new colleague to the team, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued.

We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and equal opportunity and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.

Together we’ll make it possible!