Senior Delivery Manager

We are part of Flutter Entertainment Group - one of the World´s Largest Groups in the bookmaking industry, with an annual revenue of around 5 billion euros.

Its strong and diverse portfolio of market-leading brands and best-in-class products provides excitement and entertainment in a safe and responsible way.
The Code we develop, powering brands such as Paddy Power, Sky Betting & Gaming, Betfair, Sportsbet, FoxBet, FanDuel, and PokerStars, is used by around 14 million people in more than 100 countries, and we are in the API Billionaire Club alongside players such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.

The Global Betting Platform (‘gbp') is Flutter's flagship proprietary sports betting platform and is being used by multiple Brands across the Group to power delivery of new Sports betting features at pace. Today the gbp product enables the generate of 33% of the total Flutter Group Sportsbook online revenue and has around 1.7m active customers across the multiple brands transacting on it.

The Role...

As Senior Delivery Manager you will lead a team of delivery (engineering) managers. You will provide tactical and strategic leadership, oversight and direction to multi-discipline team members that span multiple concurrent delivery streams. You should have a solid technical and managerial background, proven problem-solving skills, be a strong technical and organizational leader with positive results-driven attitude and be able to demonstrate your ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

You and your team will be working as part of a multiple team, multiple location environment to further evolve the gbp platform to become a truly world-class sports betting platform to power the Flutter Group to innovate and differentiate the experience we can provide to our customers across our multiple brands.

What You'll be Doing...

• Work closely with the key business customers, stakeholders, external partners and all groups within the Technology organization to implement, evolve, support and own the software and system components to appropriate quality standards, within Flutter's overall infrastructure
• Clearly communicate to group and divisions senior leadership and to your delivery function and respective squads. Promote strategies, roadmaps, dependencies and plans for products and/or components
• Own the product development lifecycle and be responsible for managing all delivery risks
• Manage all technical resources and capacity plans within budget and project schedule
• Responsible for fostering an open-source mindset and for maintaining strong and collaborative relationships with other Senior Managers among Flutter group divisions
• Lead, inspire, motivate and line manage an area compose by several multi-discipline software development teams and Managers
• Coach, hold 1 to 1s, set and review objectives, appraise performance, and assist with career development, ensuring effective performance management
• Help build a ‘delivery with high quality' culture that is accountability and results orientated
• Responsible for achieving and sustaining employee engagement
• Serve as liaison between the delivery team and key stakeholder(s)
• Execute, plan and manage changes as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Continuous improvement of processes through automation of common procedures, and implementation of standards, processes and checklists
• Prioritize all tasks throughout all phases of the project lifecycle
• Foster an appropriate sense of urgency to deliver results at pace
• Actively measure and review the Productivity, Velocity, Quality and Duration of delivery, taking prompt corrective action where necessary

What We're Looking For...

• Proven track record of leading and managing teams on complex software projects
• Expertise using agile methods for software delivery
• Experience working with distributed, redundant and transactional systems and the testing of these
• Experience managing the development of a team by ensuring that project tasks are in line with each team member's career interests where possible
• Experience in managing effectively a team consisting of multiple disciplines
• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills, particularly regarding technical risks, issues and constraints
• Able to project manage work and prioritize effectively