Delivery Lead - Enterprise Technology
Schroders
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
- 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
- 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