Change Delivery Manager, MBPR UAT Services

at  Bank of England

JOB DESCRIPTION

The UAT Services team is primarily responsible for the co-ordination and delivery of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for system change across Markets and Banking divisions. This role leads the team, which is made up of a minimum of 14 testers. The role also offers significant exposure to operational business teams across the two divisions as well as collaboration with development and testing teams in the BOE’s Technology and Change & Planning directorates.
This is a permanent opportunity as part our Change Delivery management team. It is a lively role where you will be responsible for leading all aspects of UAT across several critical and high-profile change projects. The role offers an excellent opportunity to combine relationship management and analytical skills to ensure changes to business critical systems are well scoped, sufficiently planned and appropriately tested. A key aspect of the role is engaging with business and technology teams to ensure delivery frameworks and governance around testing are applied consistently.ell as collaboration with development and testing teams in the BOE’s Technology and Change & Planning directorates.
The role has day to day management of the UAT Services team. You will develop your team through sharing information optimally, mentoring and presenting a clear vision to ensure that staff are productive, engaged, and motivated to deliver our business aims. This includes setting clear goals and SMART objectives. The role includes the responsibility for handling all colleague matters such as performance, absence, and sickness.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

The role will include:

• Providing expertise and leadership to MBPR in the delivery of effective UAT.
• Advising, challenging and supporting business and technology areas to ensure test plans are robust and delivered in the most effective and efficient way possible.
• Maintaining relationships with MBPR business area and Technology partners.
• Developing, implementing, and maintaining a new Target Operating Model for implementing excellence in UAT.
• Line management responsibility for the team.

This role offers a salary of circa £70,900 - £80,900 per annum on a full time basis. In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• A 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection