Delivery Unit Manager - North America
Charlotte, Nc
Endava (NYSE: DAVA) is a leading next-generation technology services provider and helps accelerate disruption by delivering rapid evolution to enterprises. Using distributed enterprise agile at scale, Endava collaborates with its clients, seamlessly integrating with their teams, catalysing ideation and delivering robust solutions. Endava helps its clients become digital, experience-driven businesses by assisting them in their journey from idea generation to development and deployment of products, platforms and solutions.Following the acquisition of Levvel in April 2021, I transitioned into a role leading the newly formed North American Delivery Unit for Endava. This team was approximately 250 individuals distributed across the US.Key Accomplishments:- Managed a budget of ~$40mm including both people costs and hard costs.- Reorganized the team in alignment with Endava's internal capability structure supporting the following capabilities: Development, Architecture, Data, Testing, Infrastructure, Devops, Delivery Management, Business Analysis, User Experience, and Industry Consulting.- Managed vendor relationships including staffing agencies for contingent labor, recruiting firms, and tools providers.- Partnered with client executives and product teams to understand product vision and deliver on the desired product direction.- Drove the adoption of "hybrid" delivery models composed of both North American and Latin American team members.- Selected by a group of technology leaders to present on the topic of "Building Positive Engineering Culture Through Code Reviews" as a featured speaker at the company's internal tech conference.