The Emirates Group Hiring for VP IT Agile Delivery & Programme Management Job at Dubai Full Time

Job Purpose: The VP IT Agile Delivery & Programme Management will lead the core delivery practices of Agile Delivery, Technical Product Managment, Sofware Engineering, Quality Engineering and Service Management, ensuring that they are integrated optimally to deliver for the Emirates Group businesses. You will collaborate with other areas of IT including cybersecurity, architecture, and infrastructure to establish, measure and refine effective and efficient ways of working that enable the delivery of business technology services. The VP IT will direct the planning, scheduling, and delivery of complex, multi-portfolio initiatives; orchestrate delivery across multiple IT business portfolios, business departments and external vendors to realise strategic value; engage with business executives across multiple departments to drive integrated strategic outcomes; align strategy and execution by applying Lean and Agile principles as well as systems thinking approaches to strategy, investment funding, portfolio operations and governance. Job Outline: – Manage delivery of complex programs that span multiple portfolios, implement complex technology solutions and require significant business change across diverse stakeholder groups. Ensure the on-time and on-budget delivery by applying best practices, managing risk and leveraging proven frameworks for solution delivery, systems integration and change management at scale. – Manage risks, dependencies and release plans across the portfolio of large, complex programs. – Establish integrated planning to ensure a common cadence of the work program, create and manage an integrated portfolio plan with sequenced and prioritised initiatives. – Coordinate planning across Agile Release Trains, independent Agile teams, traditional projects, solution vendors and delivery partners through syncrhonised PI (Program Increment) Planning. Ensure priorities and outcomes are aligned across all parties. – Define the practices and capabilities needed for the delivery of business technology solutions by leading the integration of practices in the core delivery chapters of Agile Delivery, Technical Product Management, Software Engineering, Quality Engineering and Service Management. – Manage and develop the scaled agile competency and adapt the framework to optimally deliver commitments. Ensure all agile ceremonies and cadences are established in order to synchronise delivery across IT. Develop and continuously improve the capabilities, processes, and tools for the practices. – Lead the Agile PMO to establish lean investment and delivery governance processes, controls and reporting. Monitor all portfolios and initiatives to proactively identify risks, issues and address them to protect delivery commitments. – Drive financial integrity through effective and transparent estimation, forecasting and reporting of expenses across all business IT investments. Support the demand shaping and estimation processes for large, complex programs as part of roadmap and annual budget processes. – Maintain strong working relationships with the IT Delivery & Business Enablement leadership including all VPs IT Portfolio Delivery. Share strategic context and ensure leadership alignment to priorities and commitment to the outcomes needed to successfully deliver the complex initiatives. Provide practice insights to the leadership team to improve the overall delivery performance. – Lead and develop a team of practice (chapter) managers to create a high performance delivery leadership function. Ensure that the the practice managers create competency roadmaps and career progression frameworks that measure performance and develop individuals within their respective chapters.

Qualifications & Experience: – Information Technology.Project Management : 12+ Years – Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) : Degree in an IT related discipline Post Graduate Qualification preferred i.e. MBA with specialism in strategy development and execution. – Experience in varied IT functions at a senior level in a large multinational corporate company, ideally in the travel/transportation industry. – Experience in Information Technology Project Management or a combination of Technology and Business Program Director experience. Knowledge/skills: – PMP or PMI Certification or other Project or Program Management qualification – Certification in one or more Agile frameworks and roles (e.g., Scaled Agile for Enterprises) – IT experience of which the majority should be in a senior project or program management or software engineering leadership role. – Ability to manage large-scale projects and programs, or a large delivery function with significant software engineering and systems integration scope – Ability to demonstrate strong stakeholder management – Ability to demonstrate evidence of coaching/training – Results-oriented – Large scale people management