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DESCRIPTION
Are you a technologist with passion for leading complex technology projects? Are you able to guide and advise customers and teams on technology decisions? Do you have strong soft skills with solid stakeholder management experience?
Then you have an opportunity to work with highly skilled and engaged teams across the globe on modern technical stacks and lead engagements with some of the biggest and most innovative customers.
Come join us!
JOB OVERVIEW
Our Delivery Director will be responsible for overall project delivery, client satisfaction and expectation management for key EPAM client relationships. The Delivery Director will also drive a culture of continuous improvement, while ensuring that our deliverables are met in accordance to our strategy, on time and on budget.
You will be working alongside globally renowned and award-winning design, development and technology teams, who are passionate about what they do and how they do it. Projects range from 20-100 people with typical large-scale clients.
Responsibilities
Delivery::
Lead experienced Agile teams in multi-location environments and ensure that they undertake their duties effectively, in order to deliver projects successfully on time and on budget
Participate in overall project management, time estimation, and resource scheduling activities
Prepare engagement revenue and resource forecasts, timesheet/billing information as well as weekly/monthly engagement reports
Act as single point of contact for EPAM delivery and technical work streams
Implement a delivery management structure across the client account
Establish criteria concerning deliverability, performance, maintenance, design and costs
Analyse client processes and recommend new business models, workflows, or innovative solutions
Identify and manage engagement risks and flag major issues early
Travel to client sites as needed
Report to multi-country Director of Delivery
Stakeholder Management::
Participate in new business development and co-ordinate the preparation of customer proposals and statements of work
Manage client expectations and key relationships, while ensuring good project governance and reporting
Address customer issues during an engagement in cooperation with the Account Manager
Hold the customer accountable for their responsibilities as part of the engagements
Strategy::
Contribute to and manage engagement and process improvements
Suggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes in order to provide marketing differentiation, efficiency improvements, and better user experiences
Mentor peers, including existing delivery leads within the client account
Requirements
Extensive experience in IT service delivery; including at senior project/delivery management level managing distributed teams
Strong technical background (hands-on software development experience, preferably in Java, C++ or .NET)
Keen interest on latest technology trends
Strong grasp of Enterprise Architecture Patterns, ability to read and validate software architecture documentation
Ability to establish solid working relationships with clients, plus the ability to work effectively as a virtual member of a dynamic, dispersed team while meeting your deadlines
Advanced planning and management skills
Experience of hands on project delivery using Agile (Scrum, Kanban)
Fluent verbal and written English mandatory; German is a big plus
We offer
Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
Opportunity to work on leading edge platforms, working in a fast-paced, agile, software engineering culture
Knowledge-sharing with colleagues from EPAM's global tech communities
