Sanlam Cloud Delivery Manager at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Responsible for planning, directing and coordinating the activities of enterprise-wide technology projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished. Consults with management and reviews project proposals to determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, and procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements and allotment of resources. Develops project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources. Ensures delivery of diverse technology systems and applications, to client expectations and industry standards, through project managers and their teams.  Identifies risks and provide solutions to ensure that projects are completed within specified time-frames.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Ensure that the project charter/project management plan is adequately defined and aligned to the business case (where applicable) and understood and where appropriate assists in the development of the Benefits Realisation Plan (ito execution of BRP). Ensure alignment between the approved Business Case and project delivery. 
• Manages and is accountable for the delivery of multiple projects, programs or single large/ complex projects/program with minimal supervision in accordance with the PM methodology, governance and standards.
• Accountable for resource optimal utilization.
• Effective Risk, Issue, Actions, Budget, Dependency and Stakeholder management. 
• Smooth transition from project implementation to ongoing BAU Support and Maintenance.
• Accountable for procurement process, vendor contracting and delivery management in accordance with contractual agreements.
• Effective utilization of project management forums for reporting, escalation and decision making (Project-, Steercom meetings).
• Apply for funds to be released for project execution with Sponsor approval.

Facilitate prioritization process of scope items across multiple business entities based on:.

• Available capacity
• Budget availability
• Expected business benefit realisation
• Formalise Change Management (scope, budget, timeline).
• Stakeholder management thorough stakeholder identification, establish and maintain professional relationships with all stakeholders. Develops and ensures the execution of the communication plans during initiation and throughout the project.
• Daily coordination between Sanlam Bus, Cloud vendors and partners.
• Unblock delivery of Cloud migration and transformation tasks independently
• Be the primary delivery manager interface between Sanlam and the Cloud provider on the Cloud migration project and future vendors.

Qualification

• Post Grade 12 qualification in:
• IT or Project Manager
• MBA
• 3 year Computer Science, Engineering or relevant Cloud Engineering and Certifications

Experience and Knowledge

• 7 years experience in managing medium to large complexity programs reporting into CIO's.
• Applicable experience in managing infrastructure projects or infrastructure on Business projects in a multi-vendor environment.
• Proven performance record in managing technical complex and cloud related application development projects.
• Experience in Business Case Development and estimations.
• Leadership skill and ability to manage a team of specialist.

Project Management Knowledge w.r.t.

• Principles of Project Management
• Project Management methodologies
• Project Life Cycle
• Project Management Tools
• Project Planning and Control techniques
• Good understanding of SDLC processes
• Resource Management
• Financial Management
• Business Case Development
• Sound understanding of the RFP/RFI process
• Contract and Vendor Management
• Jira
• AWS Cloud Services
• AWS ways of work and DevOps