Delivery Lead

1 week ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Vanquis Bank Full time

About Us:

Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880.

The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn't from traditional lenders.


Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people's lives today, as it did when it was founded.


Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance).

While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group.

We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.


You and Your Team:

Reporting directly to the Head of Delivery Centres, the role will oversee technical delivery of multiple engineering teams across Vanquis Bank (Bradford, London, Chatham).

An Agile Scrum change methodology underpins the delivery capability. You will oversee the delivery of teams comprising of Software, Test, Data, Infrastructure and Scrum Master roles. You will be responsible for the technical outcome of team sprints. You will be responsible for delivery of technical specifications in collaboration with technical architecture, data, test, and infrastructure leads. You will line/performance manage up to 8 principal software engineers as direct reports as well as their direct reports.


You will be an engaged participant of the Enterprise Design Authority to ensure technical delivery is aligned with High Level design specifications.


In your day-to-day role, as a Delivery Lead you will:

  • Delivery of technical specification of products and services through co-operation and collaboration with the Technical Architecture, test, data and infrastructure leads.
  • Day to day guidance and management of the Software Engineering teams ensuring their engagement, motivation and development is prioritised, including performance reviews, holiday planning, training requirements and Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs).
  • Ensuring delivery quality and outcomes across internal and 3rd partner delivery teams.
  • Responsible for creating a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and learning.
  • Delivery Leads are responsible for the engineering teams effectiveness leveraging industry practise KPI's to continually measure performance and improve.
  • Responsible for creation, adoption, influence and implementation of processes, procedures, and controls to ensure safe delivery of products and services.
  • Responsible for ensuring Architecture, Security, Operations and Service are engaged/consulted and the relevant assurances and high quality in handover to service support.
  • Provides role model leadership behaviours in communication, collaboration and the recognition and development of their team including regular performance and development conversations, intime feedback and coaching.

What you will bring to the team:

  • Close working relationship and collaboration with Engineering technical architecture and Proxy Product Owner capability
  • Regular interactions with key stakeholder of delivery and the broader technology community.
  • Work closely with other technical leaders including the Architectural Community of Practice to ensure designs align with the wider Bank's strategy.
  • Provide consultancy, advice, and technical insight to the broader Technology & Change teams.
  • Point of escalation for the team leads whilst deputising for the Head of Delivery as required.
  • Represent department at internal and external meetings.

Key skills:

  • Expert in execution of technical architecture specifications, build and test of services inline with the Enterprise Reference Architecture based on business needs.
  • Excellent presentation skills comfortable working with and presenting to senior management and Directors.
  • Proven track record of leading Agile software development teams
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks, lead teams, and handle challenging situations with perseverance and professionalism.
  • In depth understanding of tools and principles used in ALM:
  • Automated software testing


 Agile
  • Scrum/Kanban/XP
  • Ability to spearhead technical teams ideally on the Microsoft stack, on cloud, and have a good awareness of the following:
  • Fluent in multiple languages & frameworks such as.
Net Core, Go, Python

  • APIs
  • Can recognise differences in approach and drive good design when creating them.
  • Working with other disciplines such as Architecture and Security to create solid, secure, testable code.
  • Continuous integration & delivery
  • Commercial experience with cloud platform (AWS/Azure/Google) as part of delivering software systems to customers.

Why Vanquis?
Vanquis was established in 200

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