Technology Delivery Manager

The Technology Delivery Manager is responsible for leading the successful delivery of IT operational initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, and driving continuous improvement across infrastructure, platforms, and services. This role acts as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, managing delivery timelines, resources, and risks while fostering a culture of accountability and operational excellence. Additionally, this role supports the advancement of AI-driven initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and business value.

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities

• Program Delivery
  • Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of IT operations initiatives, ensuring they are completed on time and within scope.
  • Support cross-functional teams and coordination including infrastructure, cloud, network, and service management.
  • Develop and maintain detailed delivery roadmaps and status reports.
• Stakeholder Management
  • Collaborate with business units, IT leadership, and vendors to define requirements and ensure alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Communicate delivery progress, risks, and mitigation plans to senior leadership.
• Operational Excellence
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across IT operations, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance.
  • Review and report on KPI’s and metrics for IT Operations including monthly reports on outages, changes and consumption to other tech leaders.
  • Ensure adherence to ITIL practices and governance standards.
  • Mentor and guide delivery leads and project managers within the IT operations domain.
  • Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Risk & Issue Management
  • Proactively identify delivery risks and issues, and implement mitigation strategies.
  • Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and audit requirements.
• Ability to effectively and accurately convey information to others.
• Performs related duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or related experience
• 7+ years of experience in IT operations, infrastructure, or service delivery.
• 3+ years in a delivery or program management role within a technology organization.
• Strong understanding of ITIL, Agile, and DevOps methodologies.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge:

• Familiarity with IT Operations teams functions such as enterprise monitoring, incident management, and automation tools.
• Strong analytical skills & problem-solving abilities; solid decision-making abilities coupled with sound judgment.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong verbal communication skills; strong writing and composition abilities.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain effective relationships across the organization.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills; consultative and collaborative work style.
• High learning agility with the ability to learn and integrate business variables and learn new systems and platforms.
• Effective at managing multiple priorities under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong project management capability.
• Self-directed and comfortable working with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• High degree of professional maturity, integrity, ability to maintain confidential data and information.
• High degree of business acumen; strong technical aptitude.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.

Work Environment and Physical Requirements:

• Working on-site at assigned office location.
• Regular and punctual attendance adhering to schedule established by leadership.
• Flexibility to work occasional adjusted work schedules, overtime, and evening and/or weekend hours to meet deadlines or as business needs demand.
• Working in a cubicle hub, maintaining focus on phone calls in a noisy environment within earshot of multiple other conversations.
• Sedentary work in a stationary position at a cubicle for prolonged periods of time.
• Constant repetitive motions required for operating a computer, such as typing and managing phone calls.
• Constantly communicating effectively verbally in English, including accurately exchanging information with others following identification of correct procedures.