Delivery Lead - AI-Enabled Multidisciplinary Teams

PurpleSector; Thursley; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension

Life assurance

Healthcare

Income Protection

Employee Assistance Scheme

Up to 10% discretionary annual bonus

Job summary

PurpleSector, an engineering-led, data-driven consultancy, seeks a Delivery Lead to own end-to-end customer delivery. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, manage risks, and shape commercial delivery with a focus on speed and value at race pace.

In this role you’ll work directly with clients to define problems, shape solutions, drive proposals and growth within your domain, and embed AI-enabled, repeatable approaches across engagements.

Qualifications

• Strong experience leading customer-facing technical projects.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience working in a consultancy environment is beneficial.
• Comfortable working across disciplines (engineering, data, software).
• Experience managing and developing people.
• Strong communication—able to simplify complexity.
• Commercial awareness and pragmatic decision-making.
• Ability to identify and shape opportunities with customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer delivery end-to-end (scope, plan, execution, outcomes).
• Work directly with customers to define problems and shape solutions.
• Lead proposals, estimates, and delivery planning.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and commercial performance.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs between speed, cost, and scalability.
• Line manage a multidisciplinary team of up to ~7 people.
• Run 1:1s, support development, and manage performance.
• Build a high-trust, high-performance team environment.
• Balance delivery, development, and utilisation.
• Identify and develop opportunities within customer engagements.
• Expand successful work across client organisations.

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline

Job description

PurpleSector, an engineering-led, data-driven consultancy, seeks a Delivery Lead to own end-to-end customer delivery. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, manage risks, and shape commercial delivery with a focus on speed and value at race pace.

In this role you’ll work directly with clients to define problems, shape solutions, drive proposals and growth within your domain, and embed AI-enabled, repeatable approaches across engagements.