Senior Manager – Senior Programme Manager - Technology Consulting, Belfast

Senior Manager - Senior Programme Manager - Technology Consulting - Belfast

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you, we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

Our Technology Consulting team is expanding its Energy and Utilities capability in Northern Ireland. We are seeking experienced Technical Project Managers to lead complex technology-enabled transformation programmes across the electricity sector. The role will support programmes that enable the safe, secure and reliable operation of critical electricity infrastructure, accelerate grid modernisation and renewable-energy integration, strengthen operational resilience, and improve the use of digital technology and data across the energy system.

The opportunity

EY’s Technology Deliveryteam drive transformational IT change programmes for our clients, helping them to convert their strategic ambition into measurable business outcomes, while delivering integrated, quality-assured technology transformations at speed.

Our teams have the depth and breadth of experience across a range of technology disciplines, utilising industry best practices, processes, resources, tools and accelerators in project and programme management, and vertically integrated governance with our world class technology delivery focussed PMO. This fundamentally underpins the delivery of cost optimised, stable, progressive IT infrastructure delivery and complex systems integrations supporting business growth.

New technologies and disruptive change are creating exciting opportunities: to work differently, to work better and to find new ways of creating value for us and the clients we serve. As part of our All-In strategy, Technical Programme Managers will provide leadership and direction to support our client’s technology centric project and programmes. We are looking to recruit high performing individuals with a proven track record in Technical Project Management to be part of our leading and growing Technology Consulting business.

By joining the Technology Consulting team, you will be helping our clients solve a wide range of challenges - from the requirement to respond to the ever-changing demands of the market, to overseeing large and complex technical transformation projects/programmes that truly transform our clients ways of working, As part of this growing team, you will also get to help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.

Your key responsibilities

Client-facing:

• End to end responsibility for the mobilisation, delivery and benefits of large scale complex strategic and/or transformative programmes in accordance with selected Project Management Methodologies.
• Plan, direct, and co-ordinate activities to manage and implement a programme roadmap from mobilisation through to implementation by leading, directing and overseeing a large team of programme resources working across multiple workstreams and projects.
• Influence and negotiate programme outcomes, often across multiple functions. Prepare and present analysis, insights and recommendation to assist defined governance forums and senior client stakeholders with decision making.
• Maintain focus so that programmes deliver on key priorities and dependencies and are managed to realise business benefits to agreed timelines.
• Identify and advise on programme level decisions that influence significant programme direction and escalates decisions that cannot be resolved to the agreed governance forums.

• Lead complex stakeholder environments involving network operators, system operators, regulators, technology suppliers and programme delivery partners.

People  responsibilities:

• Understand our consulting service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients and be able to build meaningful external relationships with our clients and internal relationships across service lines.
• Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative insights for clients looking to leverage their vendor framework, improve their IT offerings, execute on Programme commitments and adapt methods and practices to fit operational teams and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.
• Lead Technology Consulting engagements, managing team performance and commercials including conducting performance reviews and contributing to performance feedback for all levels of staff and managing engagement billings, and estimates to complete.
• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff.
• Understand, follow and lead staff in workplace policies and procedures.

Skills and attributes for success

EY has a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of skills significantly. Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services. We are looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and confidence to make it happen. Our opportunities will allow you to apply your expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career progression opportunities.

To qualify for the role:

• A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or IT related discipline, from a recognised third level institution.
• Additional relevant professional qualifications, such as PRINCE2®, PMP, PMBOK, or Diploma Level in Project Management or similar discipline from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body.
• Experience working in a client facing role for a leading consulting or professional services company in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes or experience working for a leading company, in delivery of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes.

• Relevant experience within UK, Ireland or another comparable regulated energy or critical-infrastructure market

• Experience in one or more technology areas including but not limited to Cloud Migration and/or integrations, Data & Analytics and Power systems technology e.g. SCADA / OT.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, tailoring communications to suit a mix of audiences and ability to translate strategy into measurable business benefits. Experience communicating and presenting project information to project teams, finance and other stakeholders.

• Experience in the establishment, training and management of teams comprised of client, contractors and client strategic partners.
• Have a track record of delivery within several large-scale IT transformation programmes. 
• Have experience in seeking the alignment of business and IT, operating across organisational and technology silos to drive common approaches.
• Have a proven ability to be able to take a ‘big picture’ delivery and project management view as well as being able to work at a detailed level across a broad range of contract types and engagement approaches.

 The following will be an advantage;

• Experience in tracking, monitoring, advising and maintaining status and actions across Project Budget, Risks, Issues, Dependencies and Benefits across a multi-vendor environment.
• Experience with Stakeholder Management and working collaboratively across IT, Finance and parts of the business to deliver project governance that meets client needs.
• Experience in highly regulated environments, where operations realisation and security are critical.
• Experience developing investment cases, regulatory submissions, funding requests and benefits cases in support of strategic transformation programmes.
• Experience with a transmission system operator, distribution system operator, energy utility or comparable critical-infrastructure organisation.
• Familiarity with electricity transmission, distribution, system operation or the Single Electricity Market.
• Experience in delivering EMS/AMD, SCADA, OT, network management, operational telecommunications or control-room technologies.
• Knowledge of IT/OT cybersecurity, critical-infrastructure resilience and relevant industry standards.
• Experience delivering across a multi-vendor electricity ecosystem.
• Understand how regulatory commitments, price-control allowances, consumer value, investment cases and assurance requirements shape technology programme priorities and delivery decisions.
• A continued ambition to further develop and learn, fostering an interest in innovative technologies.
• A desire to identify new opportunities and help to create proposals to help solve our client’s most complex problems.

What we look for

Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritise shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry. An effective communicator and a confident leader equipped with strong people management skills and a genuine passion for technology and making things happen in a dynamic organisation. If you’re ready to take on a wide range of responsibilities and are committed to seeking out new ways to make a difference, this role is for you.

What we offer

· Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

· Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

· Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

· Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.  Click the link below for more information:

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If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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