Technology Delivery Lead

Career Level: 8 - Associate Manager
Location: Dublin

Work in a culture that encourages innovative ideas to thrive and make a meaningful impact on our clients’ businesses and in our communities. Accenture Technology brings innovation, new technology skills and industry knowledge together to help clients innovate at scale, transform and grow their businesses.
Innovative work.

An outstanding, diverse workplace environment. Unrivalled industry and functional expertise. Continuous learning and development opportunities. Competitive employee benefits. Core values drive everything we do. These are just some of the reasons why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best companies to work for, and why our people choose Accenture.

Accenture Technology Delivery

In multi-functional teams we deliver innovative projects to drive collaboration from strategy through to implementation based on an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, innovative ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with ground breaking technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job!

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As a Technology Delivery Lead you will play a pivotal in overseeing the successful delivery of technology and transformation projects. A key element of your is to lead and manage end-to-end delivery projects that have a focus on added business value, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, constraints, and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the day to day delivery of high-quality technology transformation work, delivering solutions for our clients
• Manage multi-functional and geographically diverse teams running the end to end technical delivery across the entire lifecycle
• Provide functional and technical expertise to support design and implementation work
• Manage resource allocation, budgeting, and capacity planning for the project or programme
• Tracking and managing project financials
• Integrated project and programme planning
• Management of delivery risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies
• Comprehensive status reporting and communication to senior partners
• Collaborate with programme and project management, business owners, development, test and change teams, and operations to ensure goals and objectives are aligned.
• Become a trusted advisor to clients to ensure alignment between their expectations and our delivered solutions
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance delivery efficiency, effectiveness, and quality
• Develop and improve relationships with clients to see opportunities where Accenture’s solutions can bring further innovation and value to meet their needs
• Perform sales and solution support in technology delivery opportunities including solution planning, timeline, estimate and team structure

• Strong interest in and experience of technology delivery
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate findings and status to a non-technical audience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Qualifications & experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years experience in delivery and leading technology projects through the full software delivery life cycle
• Professional qualification in project management. (e.g. PMP, Prince2, etc)
• Experience with waterfall and agile development methodologies
• Proven ability to lead and manage people, within own reporting line and across wider teams, to achieve required outcomes
• Ability to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues
• Previous experience working within the Utilities/Electricity sector would be beneficial

Does this appeal to you? If so, we would love to hear from you!
Please advise if you have any particular requirements, so we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at access IErecruitment@accenture.com.

What’s in it for you:

At Accenture Ireland, in addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension, private health insurance, discounted gym membership, emergency caring facilities, 20 days of holidays and 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.

Accenture is a leading international professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and niche skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and build value for their partners. With approximately 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.