23162 - Lead Delivery Manager (National)

Ministry of Justice; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Ministry of Justice in London seeks an experienced Lead Delivery Manager to drive complex software delivery programmes within the Probation Digital and CTO offices. The role focuses on hands‑on leadership, coaching Agile practices, and building high‑performing delivery teams.

You will lead multidisciplinary product delivery, recruit managers, and ensure effective collaboration with senior stakeholders, third parties, and internal teams across MoJ.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to deliver large software development projects.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coaching agile practices.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Define delivery standards and processes for large product groups.
• Recruit and manage delivery managers within area.
• Coach teams and enable self-organising, high-performing teams.

Job description

23162 - Lead Delivery Manager (National)

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

London: £75,674 – £85,257 (which may include an allowance of up to £4,801)

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 2

Vacancy number: 23162

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

We’re recruiting for two Lead Delivery Managers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Probation Digital Team, and the Office of the Chief Technology Officer.

This role aligns against Delivery Manager Profession from the Government Digital and Data Framework

Lead Delivery Managers are accountable for effective delivery of groups of products and are responsible for the recruitment and performance management of delivery managers within their area. They also remain ‘hands‑on’, supporting high-priority product delivery.

Lead Delivery Managers define and implement standards and processes for delivery and are experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams that build, support and continuously improve products of significant scale and complexity.

As a Lead Delivery Manager, you will have a proven ability in successfully delivering large software development projects/programmes. This is a high-impact role where you will be building, maintaining and motivating teams; protecting them and making sure the teams in your area collaborate effectively. You’ll coach teams and facilitate a culture of continuous improvement, proactively managing dependencies and risks to overcome obstacles to delivery.

As an Agile delivery leader in our organisation, you will have a proven record of working with senior leaders, stakeholders and third parties to drive agile transformations at an organisational level. You will be part of our digital delivery leadership community driving cultural and procedural change and embedding Agile approaches and ways of working. With a strong background as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach (or similar roles) you will primarily focus on delivery strategy, while supporting the creation of self‑organising and high‑performing teams, supported closely by Senior Delivery Managers.

You will have the ability and experience of establishing/driving Agile delivery/transformations, through a solid coaching background. As well as demonstrating your leadership qualities in building new teams through hiring of FTEs but also using managed services suppliers.

The Team

Probation Digital is a rapidly growing and transforming organisation. It works to deliver and maintain sustainable live services and new products that support staff who work with vulnerable members of society. It is an organisation built up of experts in UCD, software development, agile and product disciplines who collaborate together to create an inclusive culture and work towards strategic goals to improve operational services in His Majesty’s Probation Service.

Office of the Chief Technology Officer

The Chief Technology Office sets technical direction across the organisation. It defines standards, shapes shared platforms and ways of working and supports teams to build and operate systems that are secure, reliable and sustainable.

We aim to enable teams across MoJ and accelerate digital delivery by identifying common user needs and organisational challenges, and delivering high-quality, user‑centred solutions.

We are driving key transformations across MoJ while transitioning to a product operating model, ensuring we continue to deliver measurable value to users at pace. With products and services across engineering, data architecture and governance.