Lead Delivery Manager

Do you have a passion for delivering excellent digital services? Are you a leader who loves to work in the open alongside a multi-skilled team of professionals? An opportunity has arisen for a permanent Lead Delivery Manager role in the Digital Services division at Public Health Wales.
We are looking for a skilled and experienced delivery manager to help us develop our services for public health. If you'd like to discuss the role further, please contact Dafydd James, Head of Digital Experience and Services: dafydd.james3@wales.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

As a Lead for the division, you'll be working with teams across the organisation and beyond to deliver user-focussed projects.
You'll lead and manage the Development Team and help them prioritise their work, align with the organisation's long-term strategy and the Digital and Data Strategy. You will be a part of the senior leadership across the division and the organisation, enabling successful cross-function partnerships.
You'll be a passionate advocate for user needs and Agile approaches. You have experience of running Agile teams through Sprints and Epics to deliver brilliant services at pace, without stinting on good governance or quality and testing processes. You will be instrumental in the continuous delivery of a strong, flexible development profession, and contribute to associated frameworks and standards within the digital, data and technology area.
As a strategic thinker, you will be constantly horizon scanning, identifying areas for discovery. You will create development roadmaps for services and be adept at handling migrations and managing legacy systems into end-of-life decommissioning. You have a strong background of understanding technical and data architectures, with the ability to scale up operations and manage contractors and suppliers.
This is a new role , so you'll have the opportunity to help define how our services and products are built and, to co-create the role to reflect our ambitions in digital and data capability.