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FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.
The Position
FanDuel is hiring for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join a small team of Program Managers in our Delivery Excellence space. This team supports our engineering teams to deliver better by providing support and guidance via three core offerings: tooling, education and consultancy. The vision is for teams to become more self-sufficient and embrace a culture of continuous improvement, so this team operates as servant-leaders and in a pull model to help teams succeed.
In this role, you will manage programs and their delivery end-to-end, working alongside teams to coach, consult, facilitate and provide targets and objectives to work towards.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Promote and use all aspects of ‘core offering’ as relevant to teams: tooling, education, consultancy.
- Tooling - recommending tool provision and configuration that suits team processes and allows measurable insights
- Education - being a subject matter expert and resource to teams through materials, tutorials and facilitation
- Consultancy - provide analysis, coaching and guidance to help teams achieve Delivery Excellence outcomes
- Own multi-phase complex programs that impact the entire engineering organisation
- Investigate and understand data-driven delivery insights to support driving continuous improvement
- Balance trade-off decisions between short and long term needs
What We’re Looking For
- A passion for continuous improvement and motivated to enable others
- Experience coaching engineering teams around different iterative methods of delivery (Scrum, Kanban)
- Experience using insights gathering or business intelligence tools such as Jira, EazyBI, Jellyfish etc.
- Experience using engineering delivery tools such as Jira, Advanced Roadmaps, Confluence etc.
- Experience working and negotiating with third party vendors
- Ability to understand architectural concepts such as scalability, reliability, availability etc.
What You Can Expect
- Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons
- A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created
- Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.
- Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.
- Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work
- Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.
The Interview Process
- Recruiter Screen (30mins)
- Hiring Manager Interview (30mins)
- Competency Interview x2 (60mins) and System Design Concepts Interview (60mins)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We endeavour to make our interview process as accessible as possible. If you need any assistance prior to your interview, including any reasonable adjustments, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.
Location: Our Scottish tech hub is based in central Edinburgh and is fitted with fabulous amenities including a gym, showers, bike parking, gaming pods, multiple breakout areas, meeting rooms, a roof terrace and much more.
We operate a hybrid model for the majority of our roles, where we normally spend a day or two in the office per week.