Senior Delivery Lead

**Base Location**: Perth, Glasgow & Forbury

**Salary**: £66,100 - £99,100 + car allowance and performance-related bonus and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

**Working Pattern**: Fixed Term Contract | Full Time | Flexible First options available

We are embedding agility in our ways of working, building capability for a digital SSE of the future, meeting the needs of our customers in a new way. SSE IT/OT is building its Agile capability and continues to increase the proportion of its delivery which utilises Agile methodology and tools. As a result, those in Delivery and Portfolio Management roles need to have Agile experience and demonstrate an interest in championing it across the business.

The Senior Delivery Lead will be responsible for leading our Cyber Resilience Programme - delivering IT and OT (Operational Technology) programmes and projects.

You will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of the product lifecycle and product roadmap via multiple delivery teams through the use of best practice methodologies, ensuring effective control over costs and resourcing enabling the delivery of business outcomes.

**You Will**
- Leading technology delivery of Cyber IT/OT programmes and projects using Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches with a focus on tangible business outcomes.
- Establishing and maintaining highly effective relationships with multiple delivery teams, central teams, stakeholders at all levels and business teams to ensure that interfaces work correctly and continually improve the approach the Business Unit takes on delivering value to its business.
- Ensuring successful transition to service, ensuring change lands well and meets business and IT/OT operations needs.
- Leading on the management of 3rd parties, reviewing their performance and providing oversight, and ensuring alignment with SSE's ways of working and values.
- Realising the product objectives and key results as defined in the product roadmap - lead and manage other delivery roles to ensure they are also doing this.

**You Have**
- Extensive experience of delivering complex Cyber IT/OT programmes, demonstrating and meeting business value and outcomes with the ability to develop countermeasures and contingency plans associated with significant delivery risk.
- Supporting budget and funding submissions, advocating for the correct level of funding to deliver against the products business and operational requirements.
- In-depth understanding of IT/OT products, services and systems with experience of Operational IT/Operational Technology/Critical National Infrastructure preferred.
- Ideally skilled in a number of project management / change management approaches, in particular Agile delivery, as well as Prince2, APM and PMP.
- Excellent organisation and communication skills with the ability to engage with stakeholders across all levels.

**About SSE**

SSE has a bold ambition - to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're investing around £10 million a day in homegrown energy to help power a cleaner, more secure future. Our investment will see us build the world's largest offshore wind farm and transform the grid to deliver greener electricity to millions.

Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide expertise, advice and day-to-day support in emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security and more.

**Flexible benefits to fit your life**

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

**Work with an equal opportunity employer**

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