Infinity Works - Delivery Lead Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Delivery Lead - Edinburgh or Glasgow
Digital transformation is the driving force behind everything we do…
From tier-one retail to financial services, and in some of the largest technology-led projects in government, Infinity Works, part of Accenture, is unlocking the value of the next industrial revolution.
We have multiple locations across the UK and a diverse range of customers from large household brands, public organisations and some of the most exciting tech disruptors. Infinity Works now houses more than 600 staff, and the Financial Times lists Infinity Works as one of the UK's leading management consultants. Consultancy to us is about customer delivery first, delivered without ego by technically excellent people.
We reframe the traditional view of consultancy. Our aim is to up-skill our Consultants to become Polyglots so that we have highly skilled people we know we can rely on to rise to any challenge and deliver. We are a people centric business and want to attract and retain the best talent. To do that we listen to you and act to ensure we provide the environment and culture for you to thrive.
We currently have a number of open s available in the Cloud/Fullstack space. You'll be able to take ownership of technical leadership over multi disciplined squads of consultants on our customer accounts and have the opportunity to guide and mentor other members of the team.
Visit our website for more information - https://www.infinityworks.com/
The
We are looking to recruit a Delivery Lead to join our rapidly growing Scottish region, in either Edinburgh or Glasgow (or remote). It’s an exciting that’s all about bringing highly skilled people together on a project and delivering the best value for our clients. As a Delivery Lead at Infinity Works, you'll be able to demonstrate your first hand project delivery experience in a variety of challenging environments working with both internal and external customers as well as senior stakeholders.
What makes a good Delivery Lead you ask? Well, our Delivery Leads must be able to step into a variety of situations, quickly assess what is needed to make it work and take ownership, steering the team and project towards success. Strong soft skills and being adaptable to a wide range of modern / agile software delivery techniques are key.
Requirements:
- Full ownership of day to day delivery tasks supporting Sprint / Kanban boards
- Develop and own the delivery / Epic roadmap and path to live plans for the project / programme
- Excellent communication skills in order to build solid relationships with our clients whilst diplomatically challenging the ‘why’ to ensure value and minimise waste
- Reporting team progress against plan, highlighting variance and determining appropriate actions to mitigate
- Capturing risks and issues and managing dependencies across the project / programme
- Create an environment of continuous learning through holding retrospectives and highlighting problems and single points of failure and working out what to do collaboratively
- Shaping ways of working through agile best practice and coaching the team to ensure focus on business priorities and time to market
- Working with the team to agree achievable goals for each squad, the ‘definition of done’ and foster a shared understanding of success
- Close relationship with the team’s technical leadership to ensure we build the right solution to meet the customer’s needs
- Engagement in the wider Infinity Works delivery community, contributing to cross company forums and initiatives to improve the way we work across the organisation
- Support and manage the overall financial management of the account including forecasting, tracking finances and timely invoicing
- Support legal and contractual aspects of account management, working within the bounds of agreed statements of work, tracking against committed objectives and helping shape forthcoming agreements
Who you’ll become... your Infinity Works journey…
We don’t expect you to know everything about consultancy from day one but we’d like to help you get there. At Infinity Works, we will give you the platform to work on a variety of exciting projects across our fantastic client base in Scotland . Here you will hone your existing skills and pioneer new technologies to deliver great value to our clients by ensuring we deliver on business-critical projects.
Variety is central to your journey at Infinity Works. Working in consultancy means you avoid the monotony of working on tired projects with all too familiar recycled technologies. Your diverse journey will see you deliver mission critical projects across some of the UK’s leading healthcare, financial services, gaming, retail and logistics businesses.
At Infinity Works we put customer delivery first. As a consultant you will become a well-rounded technologist with complementing client facing skills which will elevate the next step in your career.
Our egoless approach has enabled us to grow over the past 8 years. We have achieved this through nurturing a supportive and collaborative environment with an approachable leadership team who inspire both an environment to learn and an environment to teach.
Our mission is to grow our consultants into technically excellent polyglot engineers. This will naturally future proof your career aspirations due to a holistic appreciation of the technical landscape whilst inspiring the local technical community and beyond
Benefits:
We believe that our team should be rewarded for their efforts, so we offer a great salary along with a number of things that are designed to make life just a little easier.
- Annual individual performance based bonus
- Training, certificates and qualifications
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + opportunity to earn 5 extra holidays throughout the year
- Full Private Health Care with AXA Medical Insurance
- Death in Service (8 x annual salary)
- Financial Advice Service
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Hiring Bonuses
- Opportunity to attend/speak at events and conferences
- My Work/Life Solutions Voucher Scheme
- Choice of laptop and hardware provided
- Regular social events (Virtual at the moment but gifts provided)
- Company Pension Scheme - up to 20%
Delivery Lead - Edinburgh or Glasgow
Digital transformation is the driving force behind everything we do…
From tier-one retail to financial services, and in some of the largest technology-led projects in government, Infinity Works, part of Accenture, is unlocking the value of the next industrial revolution.
We have multiple locations across the UK and a diverse range of customers from large household brands, public organisations and some of the most exciting tech disruptors. Infinity Works now houses more than 600 staff, and the Financial Times lists Infinity Works as one of the UK's leading management consultants. Consultancy to us is about customer delivery first, delivered without ego by technically excellent people.
We reframe the traditional view of consultancy. Our aim is to up-skill our Consultants to become Polyglots so that we have highly skilled people we know we can rely on to rise to any challenge and deliver. We are a people centric business and want to attract and retain the best talent. To do that we listen to you and act to ensure we provide the environment and culture for you to thrive.
We currently have a number of open roles available in the Cloud/Fullstack space. You'll be able to take ownership of technical leadership over multi disciplined squads of consultants on our customer accounts and have the opportunity to guide and mentor other members of the team.
Visit our website for more information - https://www.infinityworks.com/
The Role:
We are looking to recruit a Delivery Lead to join our rapidly growing Scottish region, in either Edinburgh or Glasgow (or remote). It’s an exciting role that’s all about bringing highly skilled people together on a project and delivering the best value for our clients. As a Delivery Lead at Infinity Works, you'll be able to demonstrate your first hand project delivery experience in a variety of challenging environments working with both internal and external customers as well as senior stakeholders.
What makes a good Delivery Lead you ask? Well, our Delivery Leads must be able to step into a variety of situations, quickly assess what is needed to make it work and take ownership, steering the team and project towards success. Strong soft skills and being adaptable to a wide range of modern / agile software delivery techniques are key.
Requirements:
- Full ownership of day to day delivery tasks supporting Sprint / Kanban boards
- Develop and own the delivery / Epic roadmap and path to live plans for the project / programme
- Excellent communication skills in order to build solid relationships with our clients whilst diplomatically challenging the ‘why’ to ensure value and minimise waste
- Reporting team progress against plan, highlighting variance and determining appropriate actions to mitigate
- Capturing risks and issues and managing dependencies across the project / programme
- Create an environment of continuous learning through holding retrospectives and highlighting problems and single points of failure and working out what to do collaboratively
- Shaping ways of working through agile best practice and coaching the team to ensure focus on business priorities and time to market
- Working with the team to agree achievable goals for each squad, the ‘definition of done’ and foster a shared understanding of success
- Close relationship with the team’s technical leadership to ensure we build the right solution to meet the customer’s needs
- Engagement in the wider Infinity Works delivery community, contributing to cross company forums and initiatives to improve the way we work across the organisation
- Support and manage the overall financial management of the account including forecasting, tracking finances and timely invoicing
- Support legal and contractual aspects of account management, working within the bounds of agreed statements of work, tracking against committed objectives and helping shape forthcoming agreements
Who you’ll become... your Infinity Works journey…
We don’t expect you to know everything about consultancy from day one but we’d like to help you get there. At Infinity Works, we will give you the platform to work on a variety of exciting projects across our fantastic client base in Scotland . Here you will hone your existing skills and pioneer new technologies to deliver great value to our clients by ensuring we deliver on business-critical projects.
Variety is central to your journey at Infinity Works. Working in consultancy means you avoid the monotony of working on tired projects with all too familiar recycled technologies. Your diverse journey will see you deliver mission critical projects across some of the UK’s leading healthcare, financial services, gaming, retail and logistics businesses.
At Infinity Works we put customer delivery first. As a consultant you will become a well-rounded technologist with complementing client facing skills which will elevate the next step in your career.
Our egoless approach has enabled us to grow over the past 8 years. We have achieved this through nurturing a supportive and collaborative environment with an approachable leadership team who inspire both an environment to learn and an environment to teach.
Our mission is to grow our consultants into technically excellent polyglot engineers. This will naturally future proof your career aspirations due to a holistic appreciation of the technical landscape whilst inspiring the local technical community and beyond
Benefits:
We believe that our team should be rewarded for their efforts, so we offer a great salary along with a number of things that are designed to make life just a little easier.
- Annual individual performance based bonus
- Training, certificates and qualifications
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays + opportunity to earn 5 extra holidays throughout the year
- Full Private Health Care with AXA Medical Insurance
- Death in Service (8 x annual salary)
- Financial Advice Service
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Hiring Bonuses
- Opportunity to attend/speak at events and conferences
- My Work/Life Solutions Voucher Scheme
- Choice of laptop and hardware provided
- Regular social events (Virtual at the moment but gifts provided)
- Company Pension Scheme - up to 20%
