Delivery Lead - Data & Analytics for London Market

Thrive IT Systems; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrive IT Systems in London seeks an experienced Delivery Lead / Program Manager for Data & Analytics to act as the primary delivery interface between customer stakeholders in London and offshore engineering teams.

You will own onsite delivery coordination, planning, backlog prioritization, stakeholder communication, dependency management and overall delivery governance. Strong data platform knowledge (dbt, Snowflake, Python) and London Market exposure are essential.

Qualifications

• 12–15 years IT experience with delivery of complex data/analytics programs.
• Onsite Delivery Lead/Program Manager or similar.
• Experience with Agile backlog, sprint planning and RAID.
• Exposure to London Market / insurance domain.

Responsibilities

• Act as onsite delivery owner coordinating between customer stakeholders and offshore team.
• Define delivery priorities, roadmaps and release plans with product owners and tech teams.
• Drive backlog prioritization, sprint/release planning and dependency management.
• Translate discussions into clear directions for offshore teams and minimize rework.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery tracking including scope, schedule, risks, issues and milestones.
• Facilitate governance reviews, RAID management and executive reporting.
• Identify risks and drive timely resolution with stakeholders and offshore leadership.
• Coordinate data engineering, architecture, QA, DevOps to ensure delivery.
• Provide technical leadership to challenge estimates and discuss dbt, Snowflake, Python architectures.
• Align delivery with London Market / insurance business processes.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Delivery governance

Data platform understanding

Communication facilitation

Independent delivery accountability

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Python

CI/CD

Job description

Thrive IT Systems in London seeks an experienced Delivery Lead / Program Manager for Data & Analytics to act as the primary delivery interface between customer stakeholders in London and offshore engineering teams.

You will own onsite delivery coordination, planning, backlog prioritization, stakeholder communication, dependency management and overall delivery governance. Strong data platform knowledge (dbt, Snowflake, Python) and London Market exposure are essential.