Are you passionate about agile delivery and enabling teams to deliver impactful, data-driven outcomes? We’re looking for an experienced Senior Delivery Manager to join our growing team and help lead the delivery of enterprise data, transformation, and visualisation products and services. In this pivotal role, you’ll work within a product-focused, cross-functional team delivering application and enterprise-level data capabilities, including data warehousing, transformation, reporting, and insight solutions. You’ll foster a culture of continuous improvement, enable high-performing teams, and help shape the delivery approach across a complex technology landscape.
Responsibilities
* Champion agile values and principles, acting as a role model for collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement, and servant leadership.
* Lead and support a cross-functional team delivering data and digital capabilities in a complex enterprise environment.
* Facilitate effective delivery through strong planning, dependency management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
* Help teams optimise flow, improve predictability, and continuously improve ways of working.
* Own and support release and delivery management processes, ensuring robust governance and successful product launches.
* Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Technical leads to support prioritisation, road-mapping, budgeting, and strategic planning.
* Build strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders across the organisation.
* Work closely with Service Delivery Managers to ensure effective operational management of live services, including incident, problem, and change management considerations.
* Ensure technical debt, platform stability, resilience, and operational sustainability are appropriately represented in planning and prioritisation.
* Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and delivery impediments across teams and workstreams.
* Coach and support the development of colleagues and contribute to the evolution of agile delivery practices across the organisation.
This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.
Qualifications
* Proven experience leading agile delivery within cross-functional technology teams using Scrum, Kanban, or scaled agile approaches.
* Strong understanding of agile principles, lean delivery practices, and continuous improvement.
* Experience delivering complex technology, data, analytics, or transformation initiatives in enterprise environments.
* Strong leadership and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence and motivate teams without direct line management responsibility.
* Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
* A data-informed mindset, with a focus on outcomes, experimentation, learning, and delivering measurable value.
* Experience working closely with engineering, architecture, product, and operational teams.
Desirable Criteria
* Experience delivering enterprise data warehousing, data transformation, BI, analytics, or visualisation solutions.
* Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystems.
* Familiarity with operational service management practices and ITIL environments.
Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits, including:
* 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Group personal pension scheme
* Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
* Green travel schemes
We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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