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Company Description
Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.
We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:
- UK & Ireland’s premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
- 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
- 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
- Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
Job Description
Our Private Sector and Financial Services teams focus on enabling customers to leverage technology in ways that improve their performance, efficiency, and customer experience and ultimately help them achieve a competitive edge in the market. We deliver this value by developing strategies, roadmaps and technology transformation, aligned with the customer’s goals and needs.
Responsibilities include:
- Establishing, building, and maturing relationships with the customers
- Ensuring the development teams are cohesive
- Delivering to delight our customers
- Delivering effectivity and driving projects forward on time, to budget and best quality
- Developing understanding of clients’ business, applications, and users
- Effectively communicating technical issues to business users
- Translate business needs to technical specifications
- Stakeholder engagement and management
- Assertively raise risks and issues and drive to closure
- Reporting and facilitating project meetings
- Standard Delivery Manager responsibilities including commercial/budget management, scope management, detailed project planning, RAID analysis, governance, documentation and management of risks and issues
Qualifications
- Excellent client-facing skills
- Technical project management experience and the ability to manage projects no matter what the technology involved
- Experience in delivering Software Development projects
- Experience of establishing and running sizeable teams and ensuring effective delivery and team cohesion
- Agile experience and experience of running Agile projects
- Candidates with PRINCE2/PMP certification preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience on JIRA, Confluence
- Exposure or hands-on experience in SDLC and non-SDLC projects in emerging technologies
- A deep-rooted understanding of core project management processes, including SDLC and Agile methodologies, is essential. Candidates should be familiar with best practices and be able to adapt and evolve these in line with project demands
Additional Information
Why Version 1?
At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.
- Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company’s profits.
- Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
- Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
- Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
- Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
- Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
- Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
- Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.
And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.
