Cross-Functional Tech Transformation Lead

Tailsco Ltd; Richmond; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare through AXA

A 9 day fortnight - our office is open

25 days Annual Leave and 8 additional

Job summary

Tails.com seeks a Technical Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end delivery coordination for large-scale technology transformations. You will integrate plans across Product, Engineering, Data and Operations, resolving dependencies and driving progress at programme level.

You will partner with Product Managers and Lead Engineers to maintain momentum, manage risks, and provide concise status updates to senior stakeholders. This role offers hybrid working and exposure across critical business areas.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering large, complex cross-functional technology programmes.
• Strong ability to work credibly with engineering teams and technical leaders.
• Experience with Agile delivery practices and cross-functional coordination.
• Ability to manage risks and dependencies at programme level.

Responsibilities

• Leading the end-to-end delivery coordination of complex technology transformation initiatives spanning multiple teams and business areas.
• Creating and maintaining an integrated transformation delivery plan across participating squads and functions.
• Mapping, managing and actively tracking cross-squad dependencies, sequencing and critical paths.
• Maintaining clear programme-level visibility of risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and decisions.
• Identifying delivery risks early and driving appropriate mitigation, escalation and decision-making.
• Coordinating cross-squad planning and ensuring transformation requirements are visible within squad plans.
• Working with Product and Engineering leadership to identify conflicts between transformation requirements and existing roadmap commitments.
• Facilitating programme-level prioritisation and trade-off decisions while ensuring accountability for product prioritisation remains with the appropriate Product and Engineering leaders.
• Driving programme execution and maintaining momentum from discovery through implementation and migration.
• Coordinating programme-level release and implementation readiness where changes span multiple teams or systems.
• Providing clear, concise and evidence-based reporting on programme progress, milestones, risks, dependencies and forecast confidence.
• Facilitating key cross-functional forums and ensuring decisions and actions have clear owners and deadlines.
• Building alignment across Product, Engineering, Data, Operations and third-party partners around shared transformation outcomes.
• Working closely with the Agile Practice Lead to use established delivery practices and identify systemic delivery improvements.

Skills

Extensive experience delivering large,

Strong technical understanding

Delivery leadership

Tools

Jira

Job description

Tails.com seeks a Technical Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end delivery coordination for large-scale technology transformations. You will integrate plans across Product, Engineering, Data and Operations, resolving dependencies and driving progress at programme level.

You will partner with Product Managers and Lead Engineers to maintain momentum, manage risks, and provide concise status updates to senior stakeholders. This role offers hybrid working and exposure across critical business areas.