Delivery Lead

***Must be able / willing to sit onsite 3 days per week in Richmond, VA.***

Client: Banking

Location: Richmond, VA (3 days onsite per week.)

Length: 6 month Assignment

Pay: $55 - $60/hour W2 (No Corp-to-Corp)

Summary:

Delivery Lead role will support the Workday application in managing and coordinating various project activities including the semi-annual Feature Releases and various downstream initiatives. Partners with business partners to understand new and existing use cases to optimize their process needs and to support improved reporting. Ensure that all change is adhering to our Enterprise Change Management standards while facilitating/influencing the partners through the process/timeline; become a subject matter expert of the Workday application, understand our Agile processes, and work closely with our architects/developers on solutions and testing.

Plan and coordinate delivery and dependencies across multiple teams. Facilitate dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the defined deliverables. Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline. Gather/facilitate status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders pertaining to delivery, risks/issues, and schedule. Ensure that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements by working with the stakeholders. Support resource planning for delivery/execution by working with the Lead Developer.

Responsibilities:

• Business relationship management, liaison to Global Human Resources and Shared Service Providers (SSPs).
• Effectively manage through bank’s processes.
• Ensures deliverables comply with Enterprise Application Management Policies and Procedures.
• Provide leadership, and management with a focus on ensuring delivery and execution are being managed against strategic goals and direction.
• Manage and provide Application portfolio oversight working closely with application and/or vendor managers.
• Provide risk oversight for business and technology risk.

Skills:

• Ability to navigate across organizational or perceived boundaries with incomplete information to achieve successful outcomes.
• Interact with business leaders, external vendors, and internal technology groups.
• Effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial as well as time management skills.
• Required to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative manner.
• Not afraid to ask questions.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.