Digital Delivery Lead London, England
Job description
Digital Delivery Lead
ECS are one of the leading and fastest growing Digital Transformation Consultancies in the UK, specialising in Cloud Enablement, Data & Analytics, Cost Optimisation, DevOps and Customer Experience. Working with an enviable client base of Enterprise level organisations, our work enables companies to be fit for purpose in the 21st century.
Our values define the way we do business. We’re obsessive about delivering business value through technology and operate with a strong, continuous customer focus. We prioritise integrity in all that we do – providing a transparent support structure to help our people develop skills to progress their career.
As leaders in Digital Transformation we’re adaptable and quick to embrace change and new technologies. We believe in hiring people passionate about delivering cutting-edge modern software and platforms. Our biggest asset is our people! People who don’t settle for second best and people who work and win in teams to deliver the best solutions. Everyone at ECS is encouraged to do things differently, to believe in themselves and each other, and to make daring decisions – even if it means making the occasional mistake.
You’ll be working on a variety of industry leading projects, often with organisations that have their own challenges, so you’ll need to be able to adapt seamlessly to different ways of working and quickly build relationships to create a collaborative approach with your team and stakeholders.
We offer a great benefits package and opportunity to get exposure to unique, cutting edge projects with a team of like-minded individuals all striving for the same goals. The nature of our work is consulting, so whilst we’ll look to have you based from your local office/region (London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow, Pune), there will be an element of travel involved in meet clients and embedding solutions.
About the role:
- You will be responsible for defining digital delivery team strategy to meet business targets.
- Leading client engagements and building out the practice to enable the organisation to scale. (This role will be a mixture of client facing and internal growth.)
- You will be hands on in projects to provide technical guidance and validation to the team.
- You will be responsible for stakeholder management, building client relationships and identifying new opportunities.
- You will need to have a thirst to grow and mentor the team, people come first and it's important to foster the growth of the team.
- Part of your responsibilities will be to support and engage in presales and marketing activities, this will include understanding requirements from customers, building out proposals and SOWs.
- You will be involved as part of the hiring process to ensure the team scales to match business growth and demand.
- Provide recommendations and thought into existing business processes to ensure optimum efficiency.
- Assist talent team with the interviewing and onboarding process of new engineer.
- Line Manage various members of the team, ensuring personal development objectives are set and achieved.
About you (ideally):
Demonstrate a working knowledge of DevOps practices such as CI, CD, Infra as Code, Cloud, Monitoring
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A passion for open-source programming or commercial tooling
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A strong background in leadership of multiple engineering teams
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Experience in building up and mentoring teams
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Being part of implementing end to end delivery lifecycles
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Hungry to learn, out of the box thinkers
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A client focused 'can-do' attitude
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High attention to detail
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Continuously challenging the status quo
- Feeling comfortable to work with new clients
Why ECS?
ECS consultants benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plans including private healthcare (clinical & mental), discounted gym memberships, in office yoga sessions & massages.
Our awesome culture is at the heart of everything we do. We focus on genuine continuous development with a generous training budget. We also have a bespoke office in London Bridge with soft perks such as flexible working conditions and top of the range MacBooks. We have pods for collaboration and breakout areas for when you need to be in the zone. Sometimes things around the office can seem a little too good to be true. If you find yourself enjoying the pick and mix, playing pool, table tennis or playstation, coming out to one of the many team outings, and company paid Friday Lunch, don’t freak out. All these things are here for you to actually enjoy.
That said, it’s not simply a matter of all style and no substance. We continue to invest heavily in providing our staff with time to make progress. One week out of every four, you will down tools and be given time to invest in either up-skilling with our partners’ latest releases or undertake fully paid external training. We understand how vital it is to allow to commit to areas you regard as personally relevant to fulfilling the ambitions of your career. We certify all of our engineers with each of our vendors and are committed to staying at the forefront of the frequent changes in our rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Our top priority is to attract, grow and maintain our talent on all levels and in all areas. If they are happy then we are too!
