Delivery Manager - Software Development Focus

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy specializing in software and data engineering is seeking a Technical Delivery Manager to lead software transformation projects. You will work with clients primarily in the energy and financial services sectors, ensuring their projects are delivered efficiently and effectively. The role requires strong technical skills, excellent leadership, and the ability to collaborate with diverse teams across various locations.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Bonus of up to 10%

Several other benefits

Hybrid working

Qualifications

• Strong experience in delivering software development solutions.
• Experience in Energy, Commodities, and Financial services is preferred.
• Proven experience in hiring and motivating technical talent.

Responsibilities

• Oversee bespoke software development and manage agile teams.
• Lead delivery of projects across multiple locations.
• Ensure accurate client billing and act as an escalation point.

Skills

Agile development methodologies

People leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Technical creativity

Education

2.1 or above in Computer Science

Job description

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london, United Kingdom

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Posted:

16.06.2025

Expiry Date:

31.07.2025

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Job Description:

Technical Delivery Manager | Software Development | Software Transformation Projects | Scrum, Kanban, Azure/AWS, Java, CI/CD, Microservices, Architecture

Your new company

An opportunity has arisen to work for an award-winning Software and data engineering consultancy. For the past 23 years, they havehelped leading organisations change and transform their businesses by buildingand delivering high-value bespoke technology. They work with a variety oforganisations across the financial services, energy and commodities sectors

Your new role
A Technical Delivery Manager is required to join the organisation to work closely with organisations in the energy and commodities sector. You will work alongside highly collaborative, forward-thinking technologists who enjoy working in an environment that values continuous learning and getting results. Working closely with the CTO, Delivery Teams and CEO, you will be responsible for the delivery of complex IT projects for clients, predominantly in the energy and financial services sector. The role is very people-centric; you must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise effectively across all levels of stakeholders to ensure that projects are smoothly delivered.
You will demonstrate your credibility in dealing with our clients through your technical experience and up-to-date knowledge of the modern frameworks, enterprise development patterns and tools/techniques currently in use.
Key duties will include

• Overseeing all aspects of bespoke software development; responsibilities will include planning, leading, organising and motivating small agile teams to achieve a high level of performance.
• Delivery management of one or more projects, with a team of consultants potentially operating across multiple sites, spread across the UK, US and India.
• Commercial activity e.g. workshops, running proof of concepts and pre-sales meetings.
• You will work closely within the management team to resolve issues and will act as an escalation point for your project teams and your clients.
• Ensuring clients are billed accurately against resource plans.

What you'll need to succeed

• Strong experience of delivering software development solutions (both greenfield and brownfield), utilising Agile development methodologies
• Experience working across a range of platforms, encompassing aspects of data, multi-cloud exposure and more, where you can demonstrate technical creativity to deliver solutions that exceed our clients' expectations.
• Working exposure/experience in Energy, Commodities and preferably Financial services
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle models and multiple agile development principles and practices. Examples include Scrum, Kanban, Nexus, SAFe, LESS and DSDM. This is backed up by a strong academic record, typically achieving 2.1 or above in Computer Science at degree and/or post-graduate studies.
• Client-focused, positive, creative and driven to work collaboratively to find the right technology solution for our client's business.
• Excellent people leadership skills - you have proven experience of hiring strong technical talent, motivating people and creating healthy, productive and ethical teams.

What you'll get in return

Competitive base

Bonus of up to 10%
Several other benefits
Hybrid working

What you need to do now

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