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Integration Delivery Manager
Purpose of role: Manage Primark’s Integration Centre of Excellence enabling an approach aligned with industry best practice to increase integration maturity and deliver benefits for Primark
Reports to:Technology Development & Test Manager
Key Responsibilities:
Essential knowledge, skills and experience:
Personal Attributes:
Purpose of role: Manage Primark’s Integration Centre of Excellence enabling an approach aligned with industry best practice to increase integration maturity and deliver benefits for Primark
Reports to:Technology Development & Test Manager
Key Responsibilities:
- Champion the Integration Centre of Excellence within technology, overseeing all aspects of delivery and driving benefits [Time/Cost/Quality] for Primark
- Develop and maintain an integration strategy and roadmap to support Primark’s increasingly complex hybrid cloud environment
- Actively build and progress the capability of the Integration Centre of Excellence enabling an approach aligned with industry best practice and increasing Primark’s integration maturity
- Act as gatekeeper for Primark’s integration standards & principles and help to avoid future integration technical debt
- Manage agreed budgets for the Integration Centre of Excellence delivering value for Primark
- Be an active participant on Primark’s Design Council
- Provide leadership, guidance and awareness on integration topics
- Work with Primark’s information security and data protection teams to ensure that standards are reinforced and complied with
- Plan and prioritise work schedules and scope within agreed timescales
- Expand the tools, techniques and standards for the Integration Centre of Excellence ensuring licensing tracked and compliant
Essential knowledge, skills and experience:
- Proven experience in a management role across the full application development life cycle
- Technically strong across a range of IT disciplines and systems, with experience delivering integration systems
- Demonstratable knowledge of integration standards and industry trends
- Experienced managing outsourced team/s (on-shore & off-shore)
- Proven delivery track record with strong planning, budgeting & estimation skills
- IT related 3rd level qualification [or equivalent related experience which demonstrates in-depth expertise]
- Desirable Professional Certifications: PRINCE2, MSP, ITIL
Personal Attributes:
- An excellent communicator and an effective problem solver
- Effective and persuasive presentation skills, including the ability to present complex information in an understandable manner to all areas of the business
- Experience of vendor management
- Strong people skills – team leadership as well as a team player
- Pro-active and hands on - responds purposefully to events
- High level of energy, curious minded, a positive can-do attitude
- Ability to operate within a highly pressurised and fast paced environment, consistently delivering results and achieving corporate objectives on time and within the agreed parameters
- Sharp awareness of commercial reality; while being innovative and forward thinking
- Ability to travel and work flexible hours as required
