Senior Digital Delivery Manager

Job summary

You will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Data Engineering and Decision Support systems in NHSBT through playing a leading role in our Microsoft Azure Data Platform journey. You will be leading and working with our Data Engineering Team and working with and reporting on progress to a wide variety of stakeholders ranging from board members to technical developers and suppliers.

Alongside the day job, you will form part of the Data community of practice, working with and learning from peers across the organisation as we mature our delivery capability.

This post requires significant autonomy and initiative as well the ability to inspire a team. The post suits an individual who is confident in their ability to deliver, productive under pressure, takes ownership of deliverables but knows when to ask for approvals or guidance.

NHSBT is fully committed to continuous improvement in a bid to keep the price of blood low every £ saved on blood is a £ available for other front-line spending by NHS hospitals. As such, all the work you do will help save and improve lives.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be accountable for the performance of the team and the effective delivery of complex and high-risk technology change to our NHSBT Data Platform as part of the Data product centre. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading the team to progress work and deliver to a high standard, ensuring that they are motivated, collaborating and working well.
• Managing and delivering agile projects or releases, to deliver a specific product, service or transformation via a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled team, including third-party contracted technology providers, to time, cost and quality.
• Defining project needs and shape these into a planned, iterative schedule to enable resource to be appropriately allocated.
• Removing obstacles for the Data Engineering team, lead a continual planning process overseeing the delivery of all tasks and assigned releases.
• Working across the product lifecycle to deliver effective change (discovery to live) actively managing and addressing all risks, issues and dependencies and their associated mitigations.
• Translating complex customer needs into tangible digital deliverables, plans and tasks balancing cost versus value.
• Ensuring all products and services meet the Government Digital Service and NHS Service Standards and assessments, with successful handover to live at time, cost and quality.
• Coaching and mentoring both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.