Agile Program Leader - L2

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Job Description

Role Purpose

As an experienced Scrum / Agile practitioner, you are responsible for managing the overall dependencies across multiple programs in a value stream. You should have very strong domain, business and technical knowledge along with exceptional communication and facilitation skills. You are responsible for managing dependencies and stakeholders across multiple Programs during the release and should be able to handle the complexities across 10-15 Scrum teams during the release and coordinate across the same. You are also responsible for project delivery and profitability (from Wipro perspective) and should be able to work closely with the ALM/SoSM to ensure increased team competency thus gaining operational efficiencies

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PURPOSE AND CONTEXT OF THE ROLE

The leadership of a major programme of Infrastructure or Information Security change e.g. Network replacement, Security Remediation, Data Centre relocations; Cloud migrations, Workplace changes etc. in support of the Aviva IT Strategy and need for ongoing management of our assets.

Role in context of wider team / organisation
The delivery of the CIO Portfolio and IT Infrastructure Programme is critical to the success of the Aviva business, in terms of cost reduction, business enablement and risk mitigation. Each programme is typically complex in nature and large in scale, for example migrating 24,000 people to new email and desktop, replacing the UK&I network and contact centre technology etc. Due to its nature the changes within these programmes have the potential for high impact disruption and business risk if not managed well.

ROLE DIMENSION
Programme budgets of c£3-10m p.a. Benefits delivery of multi £ million benefits Tendering and negotiation of complex supplier contracts

ACCOUNTABILITIES / OUTPUTS
Delivery of programme to time, quality and cost Management of delivery, technical and commercial risks Safe implementation into production operation, minimising business impact Delivery of benefits (working with sponsor)

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Delivery to time, quality, cost Milestone and resource tracking Delivery of to Aviva Transformation gates, quality standards Benefits delivery

SYSTEMS AND CONTROLS PPMC
project and programme planning Performance to Aviva transformation standards Programme delivery methodology and project methodology

DIRECT REPORTS
Project Managers - c10-20, plus other resources and suppliers on workstreams. The largest programmes can have hundreds of people engaged across the supply chain.

RELATIONSHIPS (INTERNAL & EXTERNAL)
Senior business stakeholders Supplier executives and teams Internal suppliers of resource Sponsor of programme Transformation team

AUTHORISATION LEVELS
Programme budgets and approvals as granted by Group Exec Investment Committee / Transformation Steering Committee delegation (c£3-10m) p.a.

QUALIFICATIONS
Business degree and/or equivalent experience MSP / Prince 2 / Agile

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE
Full understanding of the Infrastructure or CISO Strategy and changes needed Ability to lead and motivate new teams quickly and effectively. Excellent communicator. Persuasive and articulate, able to influence and negotiate at senior / exec level Change management. Strong financial management Understanding and practice of programme management disciplines. Facilitation skills at a senior level. Sophisticated relationship management skills Management of diverse and complex programmes.

EXPERIENCE
Proven track record in managing successfully end-to-end IT and change projects / programmes to consistently high standards (time, quality & cost) Experience of delivering major infrastructure change at scale Technical knowledge in related area

Mandatory Skills: Program Management.

Experience: >10 YEARS.

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