Working with William Hill, you will be at the heart of the technological revolution with one of the world’s most trusted betting and gaming companies. William Hill deals with projects ranging from desktop or mobile casinos and betting sites, to name a few. We process 500 online Sportsbook bets per second each Saturday, that’s the same as the number of orders processed by Amazon UK, on its busiest day of the year. We deal with more than 20 million users daily; impressed? You can be sure there are many more challenges waiting for you. 

Remote option is available for employees located in the following states: NY, NJ, CT, MA, PA, MD, TX, WV, GA, FL, LA, MI, IA, IN, IL, MI, CO, NV, AZ, Washington D.C. (States subject to change at any time)

When we say cutting edge, we mean it.  Here, you can work on highly reliable systems with low latency, much like the transactional systems of the best financial institutions, but…with the fun included. 

You will have access to development opportunities, including IT conferences, internal training, and lunch and learn sessions.  You will be part of a great working atmosphere, performing complex work in a collaborative team of amazing people, with forward-thinking managers.  You will have the opportunity to make an impact. 

What You Will Do:

• Lead projects related to rolling out William Hill’s newest technology into new states across the U.S where digital sports betting and gaming is legal.
• Within the domain of deploying William Hill’s Liberty technology stack to new states, develop efficient processes focused on repeatability and scale.
• Manage projects that span across multiple agile development teams.
• Be hands-on and work closely with the Product Technology feature teams to solve problems, not just delegate and track.
• Ensure that delivery is aligned to business targets and the technical roadmap.
• Build and maintain a project plan that tracks the milestones and dependencies across all project workstreams.
• Track, surface, and mitigate project risks before they adversely impact the project timeline.
• Track and follow up on project team member's action items.
• Liaise with external parties that have key deliverables within your projects.
• Measure and report project status on a weekly basis to all stakeholders.
• Identify and empower workstream owners.
• Ensure engineering team's roadmaps meet the target dates for projects.
• Work with sponsors to shape and make key decisions on objectives, scope, timescales, deliverables and benefits of the program and gain key stakeholder engagement.
• Act as the key project escalation point for your projects, actively working with technical and non-technical stakeholders to identify and agree the best options to resolve issues throughout the project.
• Improve efficiency of software delivery processes.
• Manage relationships with key technical vendors.
• Contribute to the release calendar.
• Aid in creation of release notes for related project delivery.
• Liaise with and request approval from the business for code releases.
• Provide general support for GM.
• Work closely with William Hill colleagues across geographically dispersed team in a hybrid (virtual/on location) environment.

What You Will Need:

• Experience in Project Delivery, as a Program Manager, Project Manager, Head of Delivery or equivalent.
• Detailed knowledge of IT delivery processes and approaches in use across the market i.e. Agile, Scaled Agile, LeSS.
• Strong customer focus recognizing internal and external customers, establishing effective relationships and demonstrating a thorough understanding of customer needs.
• Experience in process management and process improvement, specifically within an agile Product organization.
• Experience working with Jira and Confluence
• Experience leading projects migrating from monolithic, legacy technology to modular, scalable technology a plus.
• Professional management skills including communication, networking and influencing skills necessary to establish working relationships within the company up to board level and 3rd party development partners.
• Confident operating within a constantly changing environment, with frequent prioritization changes.
• Able to focus on strategic goals and objectives while dealing tactically with operational issues.

Essential Functions/Exposures:

• Essential Functions/Exposures:

  • Must be able to sit for extended periods of time                                          
  • Must be able to type and talk on the phone for extended periods of time                                     
  • Regular attendance in the office

  
  

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