Marsh McLennan · 1 month ago
Technology Portfolio Delivery Lead (Senior Pod Lead)
Dublin - Charlotte
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelMarsh McLennan is a global professional services firm specializing in insurance broking and risk management. They are seeking a Technology Portfolio Delivery Lead to oversee multiple Pods and ensure successful delivery of advanced software products, focusing on agile methodologies and AI innovations.
Financial ServicesProfessional ServicesService Industry
Responsibilities
Lead the Pods in your Portfolio to successful delivery of business value: Lead between 2 and 5 Pods using scaled Agile methods, to ensure there are smooth, robust and efficient processes for getting software through from requirements to working in production. Focus on value creation, growth and serving customers, working with senior stakeholders, and business and product leaders, to ensure that the right work is being prioritised and delivered, to support value creation
Improve the delivery performance of the Portfolio: using a metrics driven and continuous improvement approach, identify and action areas for improvement in delivery. Build and improve team culture, leading by example. Ensure alignment with the strategic target organisation and operating model for Agile delivery
Utilise the latest AI innovations in the software engineering process to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and reduce unit cost. We expect all engineers to be using coding assistants, and as the Portfolio Lead one of your key roles is to drive this organisational change through your team and realise the benefits
Collaborate across the enterprise: foster collaboration with product owners and managers, architects, and other stakeholders to understand the opportunity domain and align the engineering team with business goals
Lead, coach and develop your team: line manage, coach and support Pod Leads and other key roles in your Portfolio. Manage resourcing levels in the Portfolio in line with business demand, using both internal and external resources. Ensure that the products within your portfolio are being effectively managed e.g. around both holistic costs (resources, infra, cloud consumption) and from a software product lifecycle perspective (e.g. tech debt, obsolescence, security, modernisation)
Stay relevant in the technology conversation: our world is changing as never before, and we need engaged and inspiring leaders to keep us at the forefront of innovation. As a key leader within the Marsh Tech Product Development & Engineering (PDE) organisation, we’ll look to you to contribute and help shape organisational transformation outside of your immediate Pod responsibilities
Qualification
Required
Significant organisational Agile transformation experience and be able to demonstrate proven delivery strategies
You will be a recognised Agile Expert intimately familiar with, and able to practically apply, the processes and practices required for successful and sustainable delivery
You've probably got previous experience of scaled Agile delivery management e.g. in the Release Train Engineer (RTE) role
You will be expected to have a broad technical understanding to support your Agile credentials from software architecture through test, DevOps practices, security and operational run
This includes a solid understanding of Software Development, Architecture, Test Engineering and Security best practice in an Agile environment
Practical experience and a passion for using AI in the software engineering process to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and reduce unit cost
A metrics driven and continuous improvement approach to delivery evaluation
Excellent stakeholder management skills
Experience of working with and motivating distributed teams is vital
Financially astute, you will instil Financial Management Disciplines into your team and be accountable for Engineering Delivery spend reporting and tracking
Experience in building and leading distributed technology teams working on complex problems, and enterprise scale business critical systems
An agile approach and experience relevant to a global enterprise, including an incremental delivery mindset; experience of different software delivery methods; and comfortable working in a matrix organisation, with distributed teams from different cultures
Preferred
Your problem solving and critical thinking skills: you can simplify complexity, and bring creative, elegant solutions to solve complex challenges
You can ‘talk business'. You don't need to be an insurance expert, but you can collaborate effectively with non-technical colleagues, and rapidly relate business opportunities to the technology that will deliver them
Your experience with large scale, complex, business critical globally deployed solutions
You bring real world experience of e.g. site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, etc
Great communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable working in a distributed environment, with an ability to form great working relationships across teams, locations, and time zones
Credible at all levels of the organisation: can communicate effectively at C-suite level, and with on-the ground engineers and development teams
Benefits
Professional development opportunities
Interesting work
Supportive leaders
Vibrant and inclusive culture
Career opportunities
Benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being
Company
Marsh McLennan
Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman.
Founded in 1871
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$11.2B2024-10-30Post Ipo Debt· $7.25B
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Joe Hayes
Senior Vice President, COO Private Client Services
Katherine Brennan
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