Delivery Assurance Lead – Tech & Governance

IBM SiXworks; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private medical cover

Life assurance

Generous pension

Bonus and professional development

On-site gym, café & restaurant

Secure parking

Job summary

SiXworks is seeking a Technical Delivery Assurance Coordinator to join our defence-focused delivery teams. You will collaborate with engineering, delivery, and service groups to ensure governance, lifecycle controls, and assurance activities are tracked and reported effectively.

You will support governance boards, track milestones, risks, and dependencies, and help standardise reporting and documentation across programmes. A pragmatic, stakeholder-focused approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Delivery coordination or PMO/assurance support experience.
• Ability to apply standards pragmatically across delivery.
• Basic understanding of SDLC and IT lifecycle concepts.
• Experience supporting governance, reporting or compliance activities.
• Strong organisational and documentation skills.
• Experience with delivery or technical teams.
• Experience in public sector, defence, or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methods.
• Awareness of ITIL or service management concepts.
• Exposure to cloud environments (AWS/Azure).

Responsibilities

• Coordinate assurance activities across projects and delivery workstreams.
• Maintain governance frameworks, templates, and reporting packs.
• Track progress against delivery lifecycle checkpoints (SDLC, STLC, Service Transition).
• Prepare for governance boards, audits, and assurance reviews.
• Produce status reports, dashboards, and stakeholder summaries.
• Highlight documentation gaps and issues clearly.
• Act as liaison between technical teams and governance stakeholders.
• Support communication of assurance outcomes to programme leadership.
• Identify opportunities to streamline delivery processes.

Skills

Delivery coordination

PMO

Governance

Assurance support

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Cross-functional

Agile familiarity

ITIL awareness

AWS familiarity

Azure familiarity

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

SiXworks is seeking a Technical Delivery Assurance Coordinator to join our defence-focused delivery teams. You will collaborate with engineering, delivery, and service groups to ensure governance, lifecycle controls, and assurance activities are tracked and reported effectively.

You will support governance boards, track milestones, risks, and dependencies, and help standardise reporting and documentation across programmes. A pragmatic, stakeholder-focused approach is essential.