The opportunity
As a delivery manager you will lead the delivery across complex digital products for our clients. Working with a cross functional team you will be responsible for ensuring delivery is on time within high pressured environments. You will work alongside the team to help shape and build our delivery & product management capability and market proposition by contributing to a range of practice development initiatives. As part of this growing team, you help shape the innovative culture that makes EY such a great place to work.
Your key responsibilities
1. Lead the delivery of complex digital products within scaled agile programmes, contributing to enterprise‑level release cycles.
2. Coordinate multiple concurrent workstreams, ensuring alignment across product, platform, and engineering teams while actively managing dependencies, risks, and issues.
3. Drive end‑to‑end product delivery by collaborating closely with peer Delivery Managers and owning the delivery roadmap for your assigned teams.
4. Facilitate all Agile ceremonies, remove impediments, and foster an environment where Digital Engineering teams can thrive through clarity, empowerment, and continuous delivery flow.
5. Champion EY’s Agile, product‑led delivery model by promoting modern engineering practices, DevOps principles, iterative discovery, rapid feedback loops, and data‑driven decision‑making.
6. Maintain strong delivery governance, including sprint reporting, financial management, dependency tracking, and progress updates for internal and client steering groups.
7. Act as a role model for Agile best practice, providing coaching and guidance to clients on how to optimise delivery using Agile methods.
8. Drive continuous improvement across teams, using retrospectives, delivery metrics, and performance insights to enhance team efficiency, product quality, and delivery predictability.
Skills and attributes for success
9. Experience managing the delivery of complex technical products in an Agile environment within either consulting or industry.
10. Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage confidently with technical and business stakeholders at all levels.
11. Deep knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and hands‑on experience with Agile tooling such as Jira, Azure DevOps, and Confluence.
12. Strong consulting background, ideally within a client‑facing environment, with the ability to influence decision‑making, manage expectations, and translate business needs into actionable delivery plans.
13. Familiarity with modern engineering and DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, automation, and distributed delivery models.
14. Ability to operate autonomously while managing large, multi‑disciplinary delivery teams, escalating appropriately to senior leadership when required.
To qualify for the role, you must have
15. Experience working in end-to-end technology delivery and delivering digital projects/products
16. Strong people management capability and track record in line management of consulting organisations
17. Experience working in an agile environment, where agile and/or lean practices and approaches are applied as a way of working to deliver technology products
18. Excellent communication skills and ability to produce high-quality written deliverables in fluent English
19. A willingness to travel and work in client sites, both in the UK and overseas as and when required
What we look for
We’re interested in candidates with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll need the ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to improve our current relationships and processes. If you’re serious about joining Digital Engineering and ready to take on some of our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.
What working at EY offers
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
20. Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
21. Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
22. The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you