Domain Delivery Manager

AWE; Reading; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day fortnight

Job summary

AWE is seeking a Domain Delivery Manager to coordinate planning and delivery of digital and data initiatives within a defined domain. Reporting to the Domain Lead, you will translate prioritised demand into delivery plans and ensure initiatives are governed, tracked, and delivered on scope, time, budget and quality.

You will coordinate across business, architecture, and supplier teams, manage risks and dependencies, and drive continuous improvement while upholding safety and security standards.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, IT, or Business.
• Proven track record of delivering projects or workstreams in a digital or IT-enabled environment.
• Experience working with both internal and supplier delivery teams.
• Experience managing risk, dependencies, and change control across multiple initiatives.
• Strong project planning, coordination, and delivery management skills.
• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams across matrixed environments.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and problem-solving skills.
• Must hold, or be able to hold, Accountable Configuration Manager (ACM) responsibilities for relevant domain change activity.
• Willing to undertake overseas travel.

Responsibilities

• Initiative Delivery: Accountable for ensuring domain initiatives are delivered on time, to budget and to agreed scope and quality.
• Delivery Planning and Cross-Functional Coordination: Convert prioritised demand into executable delivery plans, coordinating inputs from architecture, business analysis, and technical teams.
• Delivery Performance and Risk Management: Maintain accountability for delivery performance reporting, milestone tracking, risk and issue management across all domain-led initiatives.
• Cross-Team Coordination for Integrated Delivery: Ensure coordination across business, architecture, and supplier teams to support integrated planning and execution.
• Delivery Governance and Lifecycle Compliance: Act as the central point of delivery governance within the domain, ensuring all change initiatives follow agreed lifecycle controls.
• Assurance and Continuous Improvement: Embed delivery assurance and continuous improvement practices, informed by feedback and performance insights.
• Health and Safety: Maintain high standards of environment, safety, health, security and quality, contributing to a positive team culture.
• Configuration Management and Control: Ensure domain-led change is delivered in line with CM requirements, maintaining baselines and dependencies.
• Ensures change is ready to be integrated safely into operational service without compromising configuration, security, or business continuity.

Skills

Project management

Delivery management

Cross-functional coordination

Risk and change management

Stakeholder communication

Leadership

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in IT/Business

Job description

Role: Domain Delivery Manager

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Salary starting from £50,060 p.a

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role:

The Domain Delivery Manager is responsible for coordinating the planning and delivery of digital and data initiatives within a defined domain. Reporting to the Domain Lead, the role supports the translation of prioritised demand into structured delivery plans and ensures initiatives are governed, tracked, and delivered in line with agreed scope, timescales, budget, and quality standards.The role acts as a key coordination point across business, technical, and supplier teams, supporting consistent and assured delivery in line with enterprise frameworks and governance.

Key Accountabilities:

• Initiative Delivery: Accountable for ensuring domain initiatives are delivered on time, to budget and to agreed scope and quality, aligning with enterprise delivery standards and governance.

• Delivery Planning and Cross-Functional Coordination: Accountable for converting prioritised demand into executable delivery plans, coordinating inputs from architecture, business analysis, and technical teams.

• Delivery Performance and Risk Management: Maintain accountability for delivery performance reporting, milestone tracking, risk and issue management across all domain-led initiatives.

• Cross-Team Coordination for Integrated Delivery: Accountable for ensuring coordination across business, architecture, and supplier teams to support integrated planning and execution

• Delivery Governance and Lifecycle Compliance: Accountable for acting as the central point of delivery governance within the domain, ensuring all change initiatives follow agreed lifecycle controls.

• Assurance and Continuous Improvement: Accountable for embedding delivery assurance and continuous improvement practices, informed by feedback and performance insights.

• Health and Safety: Accountable for maintaining high standards of environment, safety, health, security and quality, and contributing positively to an effective team culture.

• Configuration Management and Control: Accountable for ensuring domain-led change is delivered in line with configuration management requirements, maintaining integrity of baselines, dependencies, and controlled artefacts.

• Ensures change is ready to be integrated safely into operational service without compromising configuration, security, or business continuity.

Essential Criteria:

• Degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, IT, or Business

• Proven track record of delivering projects or workstreams in a digital or IT-enabled environment

• Experience working with both internal and supplier delivery teams

• Experience managing risk, dependencies, and change control across multiple initiatives

• Strong project planning, coordination, and delivery management skills

• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams across matrixed environments
• Excellent stakeholder communication and problem-solving skills

• Ability to provide clear, evidence-based reporting and recommendations to governance boards

• Must hold, or be able to hold, Accountable Configuration Manager (ACM) responsibilities for relevant domain change activity

• Willing to undertake overseas travel.

All candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance for this role.