Version 1
Senior Delivery Manager
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Senior Delivery Manager
About Version 1
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 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.
Award-winning Employer UK & Ireland’s premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by Great Place to Work (GPTW) Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
We’re a core values-driven company; we hire people who share our values and reward those who display and foster them—it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us, and we’ll invest in you!
Job Description: Delivery Principal
Our Delivery Principals will be accountable for the overall successful delivery within an account and responsible, as part of a cross-functional team, for driving account growth. You will play a key role in:
- Managing successful outcomes and driving delivery in the Private or Public Sector
- Driving application modernisation and digital transformation using cloud technologies (Azure, AWS)
- Delivering applications, services, products, or platforms
- Ensuring appropriate governance, standards, and quality metrics are applied and adhered to throughout project delivery
- Providing an overview view of large/complex delivery teams within multi-supplier engagements
- Communicating and negotiating effectively and credibly with our clients
- Driving presales and business development to expand an existing business, including written bid responses and formal presentations
- Applying user research and design disciplines within solution delivery
- Motivating and empowering teams to create an inclusive and positive culture, aligned with Version 1 Core Values
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Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Delivery Leadership: Accountable for high-value account delivery success.
- Tech-Driven Transformation: Expertise in cloud-driven digital transformation (Azure, AWS).
- End-to-End Delivery: Ownership of applications, services, products, or platforms.
- Governance & Quality: Enforces best practices, standards, and measurable metrics.
- Multi-Supplier Leadership: Manages complex multi-teamer engagements.
- Client-Facing Roles: Credible business communication and negotiation.
- Business Growth: Active in sales enablement, bid_response, and deal expansion.
- Human-Centric Innovation: Integrates user research & design into solutions.
- Team Culture: Creates a VS1 Core Values-aligned environment.
Requirements
Essential Experience & Skills
- Strategic Delivery Accountability: Significant experience driving outcomes in Private/Public Sector environments.
- Cloud Modernisation: Hands-on experience in complex application modernisation & digital transformation (Azure/AWS).
- Delivery Expertise: Proven capability in delivering applications/services/products/platforms (3/4 areas preferred).
- Leadership of Teams: Success in managing large/complex, multi-supplier delivery teams.
- Business & Tech Acumen: Strong commercial awareness, negotiation, and negotiation confidence.
- Presales & BD: Significant bid-response & formal presentation experience.
- Design Discipline: Expertise in applying user research and design to solutions.
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Why Join Version 1?
Here’s how we empower our team:
- Performance Profit Share: Quarterly Profit-Related Share Scheme—a tangible share in our success.
- Career Growth: Curated through Strength in Balance & Leadership, with a dedicated Pathways Career Development programme.
- Flexible Work: Uncompromising support for remote/flexible work needs, aligning life with career.
- Financial Wellbeing:
- Competitive pension plans
- Wellness additions (Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance)
- Supportive Employee Discounts and Financial Advice available
- Wellbeing Culture:
- Gym discounts & bike-to-work schemes
- Free fitness classes & Mindfulness Workshops
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for mental/physical health support
- 8+ weeks holiday + extended maternity/paternity, marriage/civil partnership, and special leave policies
- Learning & Reward:
- Education assistance and incentivised certifications (e.g., AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat)
- Annual Excellence Awards & the ‘Call-Out’ platform for recognition.
- ESG & Community:
- Opportunities to engage with local fundraising & sustainability initiatives (prioritising inclusion and belonging).
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