PDT Data, Digital & Technology, Delivery Lead

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Job Description

PDT Data, Digital & Technology, Delivery Lead

Bannockburn, IL

Hybrid

About the role:

As a Delivery Lead, you will be a part of PDT DD&T Delivery team and involved is all aspects of delivery and execution projects for products that enable our business growth objectives. This role will collaborate with business, product owners, product managers, architects, delivery team, operations and quality stakeholders to ensure defined processes are adhered to and implemented during each phase of software development lifecycle. An ideal candidate for this role would have multiple years of technology leader experience in delivery of transformational initiatives with the help of onsite and offshore teams.

How you will contribute: 

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders in assigned functional area to ensure IT - Business alignment at strategic, delivery, and operational level.
• Responsible for the development and implementation of solution roadmaps
• Provide input into annual IT budget for respective functional areas.

• Leading and supervising a team of engineers (onsite and offshore) focused on delivery responsibilities and resolution of technical blockers.
• Ensure implementation of design principles, technical guidelines and best practices as established for projects.
• Works with vendor partners to organize work and ensure projects are completed according to requirements and commitments.
• Identify opportunities to improve and refine the software development life cycle processes and implement those improvements.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and architects to identify how technology can enable business growth objectives.
• Established metrics-based delivery excellence that enables predictable delivery model.
• Collaborate with Quality stakeholders and ensure adherence to established guidelines and processes for handover of deliverables.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to effectively communicate the progress of the various efforts and timelines.
• Collaborate with operations stakeholders to ensure smooth transition of projects into support.
• Establish, implement and improve development best practices and continuous improvement opportunities

Minimum Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in Delivery execution as a technology leader working with globally distributed(onsite/offshore) teams preferably using agile development methodology.
• Experience in using Relational databases and cloud technologies (GCP, preferably AWS)
• Experience in implementing microservice-based architecture.
• Helped implement DevSecOps processes.
• Experience in utilizing any of the messaging and monitoring tools (Kafka, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, etc.)
• Good leadership skills
• Strong analytical and technical expertise

Preferred requirements:

• 10+ years’ IT software delivery experience
• 5+ years of leadership experience
• Good understanding of the available Digital technology platforms and their applicability to PDT
• Experience in system testing, validation, problem resolution, and training.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and proven experience in leading projects and management skills
• Ability to lead, coach, motivate and influence others in the organization.
• Experience in healthcare preferred.
• Gather, understand, and document business processes, objectives, specifications, and requirements on