Delivery Manager - Migration

Synechron; Reading; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible workplace arrangements

Mentoring and professional development

Long-term contract

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Delivery Manager for an application migration project in the national energy sector. This role requires overseeing application migration initiatives while ensuring compliance and managing risks. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years in project management within regulated environments, focusing on large, multi-year deliveries. The position offers flexible work arrangements, a strong contract market rate, and the opportunity for long-term engagement, emphasizing diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as Project Manager in highly regulated, safety-critical environment.
• Delivery of large, complex, and often multi-year initiatives.
• Experience in software build, deployment, and operations.
• Ensuring work is delivered on time, within agreed constraints, and to the required quality.
• Managing delivery across multiple teams, suppliers, and partners.
• Experience in software build, deploy and run.
• Comfortable in uncertain scenarios requiring the ability to navigate, influence and deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead in identifying and resolving problems.
• Shape delivery plans and oversee progress.
• Manage delivery risks and ensure compliance.
• Ensure dependencies across technology, operations, policy, and data are understood and managed.
• Oversee forecasting, capacity planning, and sequencing.
• Provide clear visibility of progress, risks, and trade-offs.
• Operate within a regulated environment, ensuring appropriate controls are in place.
• Manage delivery risks, issues, and escalations.
• Work closely with assurance, architecture, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Acts as a key interface between: Technology teams, Business and operational leaders, External vendors and delivery partners, Senior executives and governance forums, Aligns diverse stakeholder needs into a coherent delivery approach

Skills

Project Management

Problem Solving

Stakeholder Management

Capacity Planning

Risk Management

Job description

Synechron is looking for a Delivery Manager for an Application Migration project for a national energy firm. The role is accountable for the delivery of application migration initiatives, ensuring work is planned, governed, and delivered in a way that supports organisational objectives while managing risk and uncertainty.

Operating in environments where requirements and constraints may evolve, the Delivery Manager is expected to navigate ambiguity, influence across organisational boundaries, and drive clear ownership and resolution of issues, ensuring successful and sustainable migration outcomes.

Role

• Lead in identifying, driving ownership of, and resolution to problems
• Focus on outcomes and data points to reflect success
• Shape delivery plans, roadmaps, and milestones
• Ensure dependencies across technology, operations, policy, and data are understood and managed
• Oversee forecasting, capacity planning, and sequencing
• Provide clear visibility of progress, risks, and trade-offs
• Operate within a regulated environment, ensuring appropriate controls are in place
• Manage delivery risks, issues, and escalations
• Work closely with assurance, architecture, and regulatory stakeholders
• Acts as a key interface between: Technology teams, Business and operational leaders, External vendors and delivery partners, Senior executives and governance forums, Aligns diverse stakeholder needs into a coherent delivery approach

Experience

• 8+ years as Project Manager in highly regulated, safety-critical environment
• Owning delivery of large, complex, and often multi-year initiatives
• Delivery focused problem solver
• Ensuring work is delivered on time, within agreed constraints, and to the required quality
• Managing delivery across multiple teams, suppliers, and partners
• Experience in software build, deploy and run
• Comfortable in uncertain scenarios requiring the ability to navigate, influence and deliver outcomes

This is a permanent or inside IR35 contract role - Strong market rates - Feb start date - Likely long term - Predominantly remote work with occasional travel required

Diversity Statement

Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Project Management and Finance