IT & Software

Delivery Lead - Enterprise Technology

Schroders

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Delivery Lead role, you will unify delivery across the Enterprise Technology function, raising the standard of practice and ensuring end-to-end accountability. You will coach and enable multiple delivery streams, balancing hands-on delivery with scalable governance and transparency for leadership. You’ll contribute to the Superhighway agentic-development programme, shaping how teams adopt agentic engineering practices. The position combines strategic, function-wide influence with practical delivery leadership in a fast-changing tech environment.

Pay / Benefits
  • flexible working arrangements
  • reasonable accommodations for neurodiversity, disability, or health needs
Responsibilities
  • Coach delivery teams across the function to improve planning, prioritisation, sequencing and shipping
  • Establish a lightweight, shared delivery standard across streams and uplift teams through coaching and practical support
  • Step into delivery when needed to unblock, structure work, facilitate, or lead critical pieces
  • Act as single point of accountability for delivery and provide consolidated visibility of status, risks and progress
  • Maintain governance, reporting and decision-making mechanisms to keep delivery transparent and on track
  • Contribute to the Superhighway programme by shaping delivery approaches for agentic software development
  • Ensure delivery practices scale with evolving engineering models while keeping guardrails and standards
Key requirements
  • Substantial experience leading delivery across multiple teams or streams in a technology function
  • Genuine coaching orientation and ability to build capability through influence
  • Credible hands-on delivery background in planning, facilitation and shipping
  • Strong command of Agile and Lean delivery practices
  • Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity and cross-team dependencies
  • Experience establishing governance, reporting and delivery transparency for leadership
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication with technical and senior stakeholders
  • Coaching orientation
  • Influence without direct authority
  • Communication with senior stakeholders
  • Agile delivery
  • Lean delivery
  • Governance and reporting

Reference: WJ-747_31185672

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