Associate Director, Enterprise Transformation Agility (ETA)

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Technology is driving innovation and disruption

We are looking for people to join our Technology & Transformation team to help our clients with their Digital Transformation - guiding clients to imagine the shape, size, and ethos of their organisation for the future, and defining an appropriate strategy, to help them achieve their ambitions. We have a growing, diverse practice working across the UK and Europe on imagining, designing, and delivering that future. The breadth and depth of our capabilities enable us to be both trusted strategic advisors and implementation partners to our clients for their transformations.

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Your team: Technology, Strategy & Transformation – Enterprise Technology Transformation

This role fits within our Enterprise Technology Transformation team – an innovative team that works with clients to help them start with principles, focus on outcomes, and deliver more value, sooner. We work collaboratively with our clients to deliver critical transformation projects, deploying our full range of technology and delivery skillsets. We pair these fundamentals with our expertise in radical innovation and agile delivery to imagine, create and run pioneering, future-ready solutions for our clients.

We are seeking people to join us who exemplify an agile mind-set and want to make a difference in larger scale delivery engagements providing the opportunity to work in multi- disciplinary teams with colleagues who lead their field in business sector and technology based expertise.

Want to work with business leaders, and alongside some of the most creative thinkers in industry? Can you develop and deliver innovative and core technology solutions that transform the digital enterprise and maximise ROI? From strategy articulation and process design to technology enablement, we work together to simplify the complex; creating tangible value for our clients. We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.

Features of your role include:

Solution Delivery

You will play a critical role across client delivery, providing expertise to identify, design and deliver solutions that support our clients’ objectives including:

• Working with CDIOs, CTOs, Department Leads and Executive Board stakeholders to align the case for change and application of next generation digital and innovative technology solutions
• Driving large complex and innovative transformation programmes from strategy, architecture and business case through to discovery, delivery and live service
• Leading large client engagements, with a strong market trends awareness around architecture, digital technologies, and cloud platforms
• Cultivating and managing senior client relationships, building trust and provide strategic guidance to shape their digital transformation, aspirations, and outcomes
• Leading in the definition of solutions to meet agreed business objectives and goals
• Communicating often complex technical concepts to non-technical and technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
• Working with clients to define and communicate solution and strategic product roadmaps
• Delivering as part of a team responsible for ensuring that the project is delivered on time, within budget, and to the client's satisfaction
• Leading, motivating and collaborating with team members across multiple workstreams including program leadership, business analysts, developers, testers, and other stakeholders
• Applying critical thinking to Identify and solve complex technical problems
• Applying standard delivery models and forming relationships across the global Firm and Global Delivery Network in order to leverage the best in bread delivery models
• Proactively identifying and mitigating project/program risks, to aid smooth delivery and successful outcomes
• Demonstrating awareness and supporting the financials of the project ensuring that the project is profitable and that resources are allocated effectively.

Foster the growth of our people

As a leader within our Belfast practice you will play a significant role in developing our culture and our people in the following ways:

• Providing guidance and support to team members across program delivery and our op unit
• Mentoring and coaching team members to support the development of skills and advance their careers
• Playing a key role in ETA and wider Northern Ireland practice to develop and grow our capability
• Understanding and contributing to the firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive environment.

Accelerate our Business Development

You will play a vital role to in growing and developing our delivery pipeline, developing new business opportunities, and expanding the firm's client base.

• Create propositions driving business development activities
• Growing and leveraging their network to help identify new opportunities
• Supporting commercial / market opportunities form RFQ to ITT response

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We are looking for individuals who are confident, experienced and team orientated; bringing their own experiences to strengthen our growing capability. Deloitte works best connected, providing our people with the ability to foster relationships across the firm as well as with our clients.

Required experience:

• Significant experience in public sector and local government clients, which might include working within or as an advisor to central or local government or as a supplier to major government programmes
• Demonstrable experience working in Leadership roles across program delivery which may include advisory services up to Board-level and engaging C-suite stakeholders
• Strong understanding of emerging and innovative technologies, shaping IT / digital strategy and delivery to leverage those technologies.
• Experience in capability development activities, such as team building, training, recruitment, career planning, staff assessments.
• Experience engaging and leading diverse teams drawing together those with a wide range of capabilities and perspectives and demonstrating commitment to diversity and inclusion
• Track record in managing the successful delivery of large or complex programmes / engagements on time and within budget
• Proven risk awareness and sound judgment in the management of risk from both client and supplier perspectives
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, challenging, and varied environment
• Demonstrable experience delivering business outcomes focused and delivery complex technical solutions for large enterprises
• Developed presentation skills, with ability to be articulate and explain complex technical solutions across a variety of stakeholder types
• Enthusiasm and passion for the delivery of solutions that make tangible service improvements

Desirable experience:

Not essential but preferred experience, skills, and certifications:

• Experience in delivery using Agile delivery methodologies.
• Certified in PRINCE2 and/or Agile disciplines
• Demonstrable external or internal eminence in the tech industry by contributing to thought leadership, methods, knowledge management, points of view, speaking at industry events, membership of industry groups or publications
• Extensive technology experience in an advisory or consultancy capacity.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

Enterprise, Technology and Performance

Our clients want to achieve maximum value from digital transformation investments in Finance, Supply Chain and IT operations. That’s where we come in. By taking a holistic view of performance improvement, including strategy, process design and technology enablement, we support the smooth operation of transformations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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