Senior Delivery Manager (Contract)
Virgin Red
Total des années d'expérience :19 years, 4 Mois
• Managed the end to end delivery & architecture of the products and built/managed the 3 outcome-focused teams. Facilitated the events, meetings and removed the bottlenecks for smooth delivery; Managed multiple projects in parallel with defined MVP.
• Defined & Implemented delivery assurance; DoDs & DoRs; Ways of working (WoW).
• Delivered the RACI matrix, implemented the ways of working; Analysts and established the smooth & transparent delivery management processes; Budget management and resource allocation.
• Established and delivered the initial Project management plan with subsequent updates for each phase/sprint detailing the schedules, deliverables, and milestones.
• Worked closely with the Product team to help ensure the definition and maintenance of
the product roadmap, architecture, backlog shaping, estimates, manage the risk and the dependencies.
• Delivered the business values across the account in the context of financial, resourcing,
and business perspectives; Worked closely with the teams to ensure adopting the best
engineering practices to improve the quality and fastest delivery, including CI/CD, DevOps mindset, Runbook culture, and monitoring production outages.
• Strategically designed and led CI/CD pipelines, which leveraged the complete testing and enabled the containerisation deployment model afterwards.
• Managed the critical internal & external stakeholder’s engagement and expectations of
executive stakeholders; Proactively managed the dependencies.
• Directed and controlled all phases of parallel works streams from inception through completion, including business transformation, integration with significant market platforms, project management, and custom development, migration onto the cloud.
• Implemented governance of best architecture & coding practices; DoDs & DoRs; SMART objectives; Appraisal management; Enabled DevOps mindset.
• Participated and hands-on development of CI/CD pipelines; Integration with slack channel to alert the issues with a production outages.
• Delivered the project charter & Project plan detailing the schedules, RACI matrix, governance model, and ways of working; Built offshore/onshore project development and management team; Established the process of knowledge transfer.
• Built engineering & DevOps team of size 10 as well as hired BA and PO; Regular mentoring, coaching and encouraged to adopt the latest technologies.
• Regularly tracked the performance reports of the resources, project progress continuously, forecast and RAID logs, and Bi-Weekly status updates.
• Regular 1-on-1s with employees to check upon engagement, performance, development, and two-way feedback.
• Strategy to build capability for technology, sub-functions such as architecture; Established development processes; Agile coaching & transformation
• Department and projects budget management (CAPEX & OPEX).
• Architected high-level design to deliver and implement the migration solution of the non-premise SQL data server and plans for connectivity between cloud & on-premise applications; Built DevOps Pipelines and integrated with ARM templates for automation provisioning of resources (IaC).
• Participated in building technology roadmap, PoCs, assessments, and mentorship; On-Premise platform to Azure Cloud migration.
• Provided consultancy, technical oversight, and guidance during the client’s engagement execution; Led & enforced the code-review process and helped development hands-on.
A strong technical and strategic leader with a deep background in solution architecture; Software Engineering and team building & management; Digital Transformation; Bespoke Product Development and Agile and DevOps.
• Created and delivered the MSA and SOW documents; Line & Appraisal management of 50+ people.
• Proficiently managed the pre-sales, pre-discovery, discovery & all phases of the project lifecycle (from inception to closure) of the projects as per accordance to client organisation strategy.
• Delivered the project charters, RACI matrix implemented the strict governance model and ways of working; Built offshore teams and onshore project management & release management capabilities; Established the process of knowledge transfer.
• Established and delivered the initial Project management plan with subsequent updates for each phase/sprint detailing the schedules, deliverables, and milestones.
• Regularly tracked the budget, performance reports of the resources, project progress,
forecast, and Bi-Weekly status updates to ensure timely delivery of the planned work/milestones; Regularly tracked actioned and resolved RAID logs promptly.
• Delivered the business values across the account in the context of financial, resourcing, and business perspectives; Worked closely with the teams to ensure adapting best architectural practices to improve the quality.
• Managed the critical stakeholder’s engagement and expectations of executive stakeholders; Attained to maximising the project efficiency & delivery within the budget; Consulted transparently yielded the account growth and won numerous other projects.
• Prepared and led the implementation of a global technical training program. Mentored
Agile/Lean values and supported multiple teams, scrum masters, and product owners to manage the numerous deliveries of releases.
• Architected, implemented, and delivered B2C/B2B digital platforms for various global
regions, Continuous improvement in user experience.
• Worked along with the enterprise & solution architects to create various architect designs, including data migration of on-premise data to the cloud; Promoted DDD
(domain-driven model architecture wherever feasible to migrate the monolith to modular
monolith with the vision of converting into Microservices.
• Evaluated business requirements along with business analysts, architects, and technology teams to ensure that solutions would meet business needs.
• Lead and participated in hands-on implementation of the DevOps pipelines and automated the resources provisioning (IaC) on the Azure cloud platform.
• Ensured the CI/CD pipelines are delivered, initially and then containerised delivery.
• Dexterously managed multiple projects discovery, delivery & teams simultaneously; Owner of quality assurance; Participated in Pre-sales and pre-discovery workshops.
• A regular one-one meeting ensuring the project is on target with no critical risks/issues.
• Listened to the feedback to provision the lean and healthy operational environment;
Documented the performance assessment against the KPIs & objectives and provide
constructive & positive feedback regularly.
• Managed end-to-end technical solutions development & implementation, Distributed team building & management; Oversee the technical direction & platform integration.
I was responsible for:
• Enforcing rigorous implementation of Agile methodologies, line and resource management for multiple agile teams (circa diverse 50 lead engineers/designers / scrum masters / product owners Onsite, 10 cross functional team members off shore)
• Agile coaching; Team’s assessment of Agile/Scrum/Kanban adaptability; Coaching & mentoring.
• Coaching & Support to product owners to manage the product backlog, sprint and release planning.
• Dexterously managed multiple teams, products, projects delivery & DevOps competency simultaneously; Owner of quality assurance.
• Regular one-one to ensure people development & health;Ensuring that people are meeting targets and help them to go for extra miles.
• Listen to the feedback to provision the lean and healthy operational environment; Regularly documenting the performance assessment against the KPIs & objectives and provide constructive & positive feedback to regularly.
• Monitor processes and the development reports ensuring teams can deliver the highest quality of the work uninterruptedly.
• Transformed to DevOps culture and practices; Architecture, Engineering & DevOps governance management
• Supporting the collaborative team environment; Performance and career management
• Collabotation with peers on regular basis to assure process efficiency and produtivity
• Automation of deployment, branching strategies (Continuous integration & delivery)
• Technical Design Authority (TDA) to approve all architecture changes;
• Architect solutions at high level design to deliver and migrate on-premise SQL data servers
to Azure.
• Implementation governance of best architecture & coding practices.
• Mastering the technical architecture decisions, hands-on coding complex procedures & code reviews
• Training management and development program; SMART objectives & KPI setting and evaluation; Appraisal management
• Motivate the innovation by leveraging the new innovative technologies; Nurture the approaches to extend or facilitate the digital transformation of existing core applications.
• Key stakeholders engagement; maximising project efficiency & delivery within the budget.
• Partnering with account managers to assess new proposals aiming to win the business.
• Standardisation of second- & third-line support teams & tracking the visibility of SLA; Leading the processes & procedures continuous improvements; Owner of department’s yearly budgeting.
• Azure based cloud solution development; Azure Development & DevOps pipelines integration; Azure DevOps CI
Tools/Technologies/IDE
Classic ASP, SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Azure, Jira, TFS, TeamCity, ReSharper, SonarQube, IIS, Apache, SOLID principles, MS Visual studio, Architectural Documents, Design Patterns, Microservices, SOAP, WebApi, Restful API, WCF, AngularJS, Knockout, jQuery, Javascript, TDD, Docker, Blockchain, CSS/CSS3.0, HTML/HTML5, Java, Selenium, CI/CD
• Demonstrated ability to enforce agile methodologies; Monitoring & governance of implementation.
• Responsible for software architecture decision, development, team management, operations, SDLC.
• Provided expert guidance to customers; Leading solution architecture; Ensuring solution architecture is optimally aligned with business strategies.
• Development of Architecture specification deliverables that map client’s requirements with technologies.
• Overall responsible for the technical solution design for core applications & services.
• Determine and promote the usage of industry standard application architecture and design patterns that align with the enterprise design principles.
• Architecture governance & present the application strategy that best meets business needs.
• Technical assurance of the design and code delivered by 3rd party vendors; Ensure it conforms to the solution design, industry best practices and non-functional requirements.
• Prime owner of conceptualising & designing complex solutions for multiple clients simultaneously.
• Leverage the automation idea to ensure continuous delivery; Technical skills Coaching & mentoring.
• Team governance with technical leadership; Performance and career management; An advocate of best coding standards implementation;
• Successfully developed and managed 20+ projects; Hands-on coding using Microsoft & Mean stack.
• Release management & planning; Hands-on with coding using MS Deploy & Nant scripts.
• A tactical decision on digital transformation to utilise digital technologies to help the business grow.
• Line management of 20 people onsite as well as 10 off-shore.
• Cloud based solution development using Azure for web & mobile.
Tools/Technologies/IDE
Classic ASP, C#, VB.Net, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, Jenkins, TFS, TeamCity, ReSharper, IIS, GIT, SOLID principles, Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control (N-inject, Autofac, Unity), Microsoft Visual studio IDEs, Architectural Documents, Design Patterns, SOAP, WebApi, Restful API, WCF, Webservices, Knockout, jQuery, Javascript, TDD, BDD, Jasmine, CSS/CSS3.0, HTML/HTML5, Selenium, CI (Continuous Integration)
Worked with some leading global businesses in the UK where I further enhanced my technical, project management and leadership skills which paid dividends in my career going forward.
• Successfully conceptualised, managed the complete SDLC & delivery of complex applications.
• Demonstrated expertise in managing the development of global strategic healthcare projects leveraging service-oriented architectural style, web technologies & Mobile technologies.
• Architecture governance & present the application strategy that best meets business needs along with solution architecture team.
• Responsible for software architecture decision, development, team management, operations, SDLC.
• Provided expert guidance to customers; Leading solution architecture; Ensuring solution architecture is optimally aligned with business strategies.
• Overall responsible for the technical solution design for core applications & services.
• Determine and promote the usage of industry standard application architecture and design patterns that align with the enterprise design principles.
• The utilisation of cloud technology for a digitised transformed product.
• SPA architecture with hands-on implementation of cloud & Microsoft technologies, web & CRM.
• Line management of 15 people onsite as well as 15 off-shore.
Tools/Technologies/IDE
Classic ASP, C#, VB.Net, SQL Server, Jenkins, TFS, TeamCity, ReSharper, IIS, TFS, SOLID principles, Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control (N-inject, Autofac, Unity), Microsoft Visual studio IDEs, Architectural Documents, Design Patterns, Microservices, SOAP, Webservices, WCF, Knockout, jQuery, Javascript, TDD, BDD, Jasmine, CSS/CSS3.0, HTML/HTML5, Selenium
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• Technical leadership and management of development and QA teams; Software development, team management
• Requirement gathering, Database design & development; Responsible for complete SDLC
• Appraisals; Performance management; KPI’s setting & evaluation
• Technical hands-on coding & extending existing core applications on old technologies
• Application architecture development.
• Line management of onsite as well as offshore teams.
Tools/Technologies/IDE
Classic ASP, C#, VB.Net, VB6, SQL Server, IIS, Microsoft Visual studio IDEs, Design Patterns, SOAP, Webservices, Javascript, CSS, HTML
Design and development of enhanced, robust systems; system analysis and design
SCADA programming and integration of company-wide systems (HR, Sales, Operations etc.)
Production planning system (TCP/IP programming); software securing and liaising products
Modules included: Software engineering, OOPs, Data Structures, Advanced Mathematics