Technical Delivery Manager

DescriptionCompany Description
Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics
We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.
Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.
We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
Job Description
We are currently recruiting for a Technical Delivery Manager to work within our Scalable Tech Service.
In this role, you will support the delivery of key projects across our on premise and cloud infrastructure environments
This may include supporting network upgrades, data centre refresh programmes, and the deployment of new services to the cloud [AWS].
For this role, you will possess a strong delivery background that will enable you to advise and shape outcomes whilst remaining hands on
You will also possess an interest and understanding of technologies and trends across areas of data, cloud, networking, and security.
Every day responsibilities include:
* Taking accountability for end-to-end completion of key projects across the Scalable Tech Service; ensuring smooth delivery and business outcomes
* Working cross functionally with key stakeholders from Engineering, Architecture, Data, and Delivery teams to achieve transformational change
* Ensuring projects and deliverables are held to date and to scope, and executing consistently to quality
* Defining business cases, project scopes, and deliverables in collaboration with all stakeholders
* Ensuring adherence to pre-determined process and procedures required for compliance, and tracking actions from audit requirement to completion
Skills and Experience for Success:
* Hands on Engineering experience with excellent programme/project management expertise ideally from an Agile environment
* Strong relationship building skills in bringing diverse teams together and managing challenging and interlinked stakeholders
* Ideally, a working knowledge of the following technologies: Serverless, Infrastructure as Code [Terraform], APIs, ECS/ EC2, databases, application and monitoring services [DataDog], Network design and resilience, Security [VPCs, VPNs], HPC & Storage [Weka, Lustre FX]
Qualifications
Project Management certifications are of interest but not essential.
Additional Information
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package
We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
* 30 days’ holiday [plus bank holidays], with additional days for long service awards
* A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
* Life Assurance [3 x salary]
* Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
* A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
* Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
* Blended working arrangements
Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.
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As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service [DBS] check
We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.
Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility
We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum
However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader
For some people this is 1 day a quarter, for others it is several days a week
There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to
The exception would be some of our roles that would require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team.
Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum
Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.
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