Lead Technology Delivery Manager

UK Home Office; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The UK Home Office is seeking a Lead Technology Delivery Manager to shape how Enterprise Services delivers critical technology products and services across the portfolio. You will lead across multiple teams, remove barriers and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, suppliers and partners.

Using data, you’ll strengthen delivery disciplines, improve visibility of progress, risks and dependencies, and help teams work in a more joined-up way.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams across multiple delivery approaches.
• Delivery of technology products and services through their lifecycle.
• Proven ability to align teams around shared goals and manage hand-offs.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of delivery across multiple teams.
• Lead delivery within time and cost constraints with clear updates.
• Build and enable high-performing teams across boundaries.
• Identify and manage delivery risks and mitigations.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and engagement strategies.
• Work with suppliers to monitor performance and improve delivery.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Agile & Waterfall

Stakeholder management

Risk & dependency mgmt

Cross-team collaboration

Supplier management

Job description

As a Lead Technology Delivery Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping how Enterprise Services delivers critical technology products and services across the Home Office.

You’ll lead across multiple teams and a complex delivery portfolio, creating the conditions for high performance, removing barriers and building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, suppliers and delivery partners.

Using data and insight, you’ll strengthen delivery disciplines, improve visibility of progress, risks and dependencies, and help teams work in a more joined-up and effective way.

This is a highly influential role with significant autonomy. You’ll help shape portfolio-wide governance, prioritisation and assurance, giving senior leaders the clarity and confidence they need to make informed decisions across a growing and increasingly complex delivery landscape.

Most importantly, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact. You’ll help reduce fragmentation, strengthen consistency and support Enterprise Services to mature into a high-performing delivery organisation capable of delivering sustainably at scale.

If you’re an experienced technology delivery leader who enjoys working across complexity, influencing at senior level and improving how delivery works across multiple teams, we’d encourage you to read on and find out more.

What you will do

• Take ownership of delivery across multiple teams, ensuring technology products and services are delivered successfully in complex and ambiguous environments. Use and coach the most appropriate delivery approaches, helping teams solve problems, balance competing user needs and continuously improve performance.
• Lead delivery within agreed time and cost constraints, maintaining realistic plans and ensuring stakeholders receive clear, accurate and timely updates. Engage effectively with relevant governance and provide confidence around progress, issues and decisions.
• Build and enable high-performing teams, creating the conditions for effective collaboration across team boundaries. Monitor how teams are working together, identify barriers and resolve issues that could affect joined-up delivery.
• Identify and manage delivery risks, ensuring their impact and likelihood are understood and that effective mitigations are in place. Bring in specialist expertise where needed to support informed decision-making.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships, understanding different stakeholder groups, their priorities and their needs. Develop effective engagement strategies and support teams to deliver against them.
• Work proactively with suppliers, monitoring performance, resolving issues collaboratively and helping to strengthen supplier management processes across the delivery landscape.

What you will being (Essential Skills)

• Experience leading teams across different delivery approaches, including Agile and Waterfall, and helping teams select and apply the most appropriate methodology for the situation. You’ll be confident challenging teams to reflect, learn and continuously improve how they work.
• Strong experience delivering technology products and services through their lifecycle, coordinating activity across multiple teams and maintaining focus on successful outcomes.
• A track record of bringing teams together around shared goals, identifying where hand-offs, dependencies or ways of working are causing issues and taking action to improve collaboration.
• Strong risk, issue and dependency management skills, with the ability to identify, prioritise and manage these effectively in complex delivery environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience helping teams communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, managing expectations, resolving issues and strengthening relationships.
• Experience working with suppliers, including monitoring performance, addressing delivery concerns and working collaboratively to resolve problems.

Additional Information

Your CV and Personal Statement will both be assessed. Your Personal Statement should clearly evidence your experience against the essential skills, using the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Make full use of the word count to create a comprehensive and compelling application. STAR - The STAR method | National Careers Service

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Please note - 3+ years UK residency is typically required to be eligible for SC Clearance and unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship.