EMEA - Delivery Lead

Infinite Lambda; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Infinite Lambda is seeking a Delivery Lead to own end-to-end delivery of multi-workstream programmes for key clients. You will translate high-level strategy into structured requirements and a deliverable roadmap, and govern delivery across multiple teams, vendors and streams.

You will partner with Account Managers and Executive Sponsors, manage risks and changes, guide trade-offs between scope, cost and schedule, and ensure benefits realisation. Travel as needed to client sites.

Qualifications

• 7+ years leading complex, multi-workstream programmes.
• Consulting background in data or technology.
• Proven ability to recover troubled programmes commercially and operationally.
• Strategic business analysis translating executive objectives into roadmaps.
• Extensive agile methodologies at programme scale.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of multi-workstream programmes spanning multiple projects, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Design and enforce programme-level governance models and reporting standards.
• Act as escalation point for serious programme issues and recover off-track initiatives.
• Lead steering committees and provide updates to C-level stakeholders.
• Translate high-level strategy into structured requirements and a coherent roadmap.
• Manage cross-workstream dependencies and trade-offs between engineering, cost and delivery speed.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Business analysis

Agile governance

Data warehouse migration

AI delivery

Commercial negotiation

Change control

Tools

Jira

Asana

Trello

Job description

About the role

As a Delivery Lead at Infinite Lambda, you'll hold accountability for the successful delivery of multi-workstream programmes for our most important clients. You will own the entire programme lifecycle - from commercial handover through to closure - coordinating multiple projects, teams, and delivery streams into a single coherent outcome. You will be a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, including C-level executives, and the person our clients and our own leadership turn to when a programme hits a serious issue and needs a steady, credible hand to resolve it. You are a critical partner in our client relationships, working closely with Account Managers to protect and grow long-term accounts, and with Executive Sponsors to keep governance sharp and escalations resolved quickly. Beyond delivery, you're expected to translate ambiguous, high-level business strategy into structured requirements and a deliverable roadmap - bringing the same rigour to business analysis as you do to programme governance.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of multi-workstream programmes spanning multiple projects, vendors, and delivery teams, using Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches tailored to each client and phase.
• Hold ultimate accountability for programme scope and benefits realisation across the full programme lifecycle.
• Act as the escalation point for serious programme issues: recover programmes that are off-track, re-baseline commercials and timelines where needed, and manage the client conversations that come with it.
• Design and enforce programme-level governance models, RAID processes, and reporting standards, ensuring predictable, high-quality execution is visible at every level from delivery team to executive sponsor.
• Facilitate steering committees, delivering clear, credible updates and recommendations to C-level stakeholders on both the client and Infinite Lambda side.
• Build and hold relationships with senior client stakeholders and executive sponsors, acting as a trusted voice in high-stakes conversations, difficult trade-offs, and commercial negotiations.
• Lead business analysis at a programme level: gather and structure high-level business requirements and strategic objectives, and translate them into a coherent programme roadmap, benefits case, and workstream breakdown.
• Identify and manage cross-workstream dependencies, escalating and closing them out before they threaten delivery.
• Constructively challenge technical and commercial assumptions across workstreams, guiding recovery plans and trade-off decisions between engineering quality, cost, and delivery speed at a programme level.
• Own commercial governance for the programme, including Change Control, Change Orders, and milestone sign-off, working closely with Account Managers and Executive Sponsors to protect margin and client trust.
• Represent Infinite Lambda credibly in the most demanding client conversations - the ones where relationships, not just delivery plans, are on the line.

Requirements

• Experience: 7+ years of experience leading complex, multi-workstream programmes, with a strong focus on data warehouse migration and/or AI.
• Consulting background, ideally within data or technology consultancies.
• Track record of taking accountability for troubled or at-risk programmes and successfully recovering them - commercially and operationally.
• Demonstrated business analysis experience at a strategic level - translating executive-level business objectives into structured requirements, benefits cases, and roadmaps.
• Extensive experience with agile methodologies at programme scale, including managing dependencies and governance across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Strong conceptual understanding of software engineering and data delivery principles, sufficient to challenge, guide, and support technical leadership across several workstreams at once.
• Significant experience in business change as well as IT delivery, at an enterprise or large-account level.
• Gravitas, credibility, and maturity to engage, influence, and hold difficult conversations with C-level stakeholders on both client and internal sides.
• Commercial experience: negotiating Change Orders, managing fixed-cost and T&M commercial models, and protecting margin under pressure.
• Travel requirements for this role are mandated by the need of the client and depending on the client some travel is required.

Skills

• Proficiency in a variety of programme and project management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Trello).
• Strong business analysis toolkit at programme scale: requirements gathering, benefits mapping, process mapping, and senior stakeholder workshops.
• Exceptional problem-solving, conflict resolution, and change management skills, particularly under pressure or in adversarial situations.
• Ability to structure a complex, ambiguous programme into a clear workstream breakdown, depende