FinOps Digital Delivery Manager

Job Description

On behalf of The Home Office, we are looking for a FinOps Digital Delivery Manager (Inside IR35) for a 12 Month contract based Hybrid in Manchester.

As a FinOps Delivery Manager your main responsibilities will be to:
* Establish a centralised FinOps capability and consider the adoption of cross-platform cost optimisation tooling that is vendor-neutral.
* Address the overall problem of lack of visibility and predictability of cloud costs.
* Promote the adoption of FinOps objectives, techniques, and mindset while embedding FinOps as a culture within the Home Office.
* Manage cross-portfolio change initiatives, particularly where there is no direct management authority over colleagues.
* Provide a roadmap for FinOps development to achieve effective long-term continuous improvement against benchmarked FinOps Foundation standards.
* Build a robust Hub & Spoke model FinOps capability with growing and ongoing internal ownership.
* Roll out changes in ways of working and tooling across portfolios, following the completion of standardised FinOps Maturity Assessments.
* Create a new FinOps capability/community within the department.
* Build out BAU capability and oversee the handover process.

Essential:
* SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role as a minimum, you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.
* Proven experience in cross-portfolio change management.
* Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders across portfolios.
* Financial/Operations management awareness (direct FinOps awareness is desirable).
* Using experience of technology delivery and technical practices to help translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
* Using previous experience, expertise and current metrics to identify, understand, and improve team delivery performance.
* Experience with delivering change initiatives in complex environments.
* Proficiency in recognised delivery methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Lean Kanban, SAFe, Prince 2).
* Managing budgets and commercial supplier relationships.
* Acting as the Delivery Manager for one or more delivery teams throughout the delivery lifecycle (prepare, deliver, improve).

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Home Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Home Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".