IT & Software

Digital Delivery Lead

COREcruitment

Manchester · Greater Manchester · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Digital Delivery Lead, you own the end-to-end delivery of customer-facing digital products and services. You will lead an in-house software engineering team, partnering with Product Owners and technology stakeholders to translate business priorities into practical delivery plans and high-quality software. You’ll combine Agile delivery expertise with people leadership to balance new features, platform maintenance, and technical debt, while driving measurable business and customer value.

Responsibilities
  • Lead and develop a multidisciplinary software engineering team
  • Drive iterative software delivery using Agile methodologies
  • Translate business requirements and roadmaps into delivery and release plans with Product Owners
  • Manage delivery against engineering capacity, priorities and dependencies
  • Ensure standards across quality, performance, security, maintainability and operability
  • Balance new feature delivery with production support, platform maintenance and refactoring
  • Manage dependencies across technology and business teams
  • Drive continuous improvement in engineering delivery and team performance
  • Manage relationships with third-party SaaS suppliers and associated budgets
  • Support recruitment, onboarding, development and retention of engineering talent
Key requirements
  • Proven experience leading and mentoring in-house software engineering teams
  • Strong experience delivering software and digital products in Agile environments
  • Experience creating technology roadmaps, release plans, delivery plans and estimates
  • Strong stakeholder management and ability to challenge requirements and priorities
  • Experience managing cross-team dependencies and competing delivery priorities
  • Understanding of the software development lifecycle from development to production support
  • Experience balancing new feature development with BAU, support and technical debt
  • Experience managing third-party technology or SaaS suppliers
  • Focus on software quality, continuous improvement and delivering customer value
  • stakeholder management
  • strategic thinking
  • leadership and coaching
  • Agile delivery
  • software development lifecycle
  • release planning

Reference: WJ-747_30174673

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