Delivery Manager - Solutions

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

We are looking for a Delivery Manager to join our Central Digital Solution team. You will work with designers, developers, data scientists and technical colleagues from across the region to develop compelling new solutions to industry problems.

As part of the role, you'll collaborate closely with the wider solutions team and with stakeholders throughout the Central regions to lead the development of compelling new solutions to high-value challenges.
The immediate team embodies Mott MacDonald’s domain x digital capability with project managers working alongside developers, data scientists, civil engineers, asset management specialists, environmentalists, and others to create innovative new solutions. You will manage a range of development activities from prototyping, through to testing of solutions. You will also promote and instil best practices in agile development, robust code development and the creation of replicable patterns and reusable code.

The main duties and responsibilities of the role are:

• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders and the solutions team.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical paths.
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members.
• Track project milestones and deliverables.
• Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise project team members and developers.

We want you to succeed in your career aims and will actively support you in doing so, whether that entails exposure to many different areas of expertise or specialism within certain disciplines. We will also ask you to take on direct line management responsibility for colleagues within the team.

You will be assigned a level of responsibility and autonomy that enables the rapid prototyping and proving of solutions.

The essential qualification for this role is experience in designing and delivering digital solutions within a commercial context; and communicating a consistent approach to Solutions Architecture to yield the best outcomes for our clients and our people.

This position is open to E or F grades to apply

Essential

• Proven experience in leading delivery of complex digital solutions.
• Knowledge of a range of digital platforms and tools and their potential uses, including Microsoft and Architectural, Engineering & Construction (AEC) tool ecosystems.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical solutions and designs in plain language for a range of audiences.
• Ability to understand business needs and translate technical requirements into digital or IT scopes for others to implement.

Desirable

• Experience of Microsoft technology stack (e.g. Power Platform, SharePoint, Azure), including interoperability or integrations.
• Knowledge and experience in solution architecture. An ability to work closely with solution architects to implement robust and high-quality standards.
• Experience of a variety of Architectural, Engineering & Construction (AEC) tool ecosystems and platforms, e.g. Autodesk Platform Services, Bentley iTwin, ESRI etc..

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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