Senior Delivery Lead

TXP; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Birthday leave

4% employer pension (salary sacrifice)

Private medical insurance (Vitality)

Employee Assistance Programme (Medicаш

Octopus EV salary sacrifice

Cycle to work scheme

Social value days

Job summary

TXP is seeking a Senior Delivery Lead to oversee the end-to-end delivery of digital and modernisation projects. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage plans, budgets and risks, and act as a trusted advisor to clients across UK engagements.

The role blends Agile governance with traditional project management, requires strong stakeholder skills, and entails travel to Birmingham or London offices. TXP offers a dynamic, high-growth environment with generous benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex technology projects within a consulting, professional services, or client-facing environment.
• Experience as a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, Project Manager, or similar leadership role.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve successful outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and client engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of digital, application development, and modernisation projects.
• Manage project plans, budgets, timelines, risks, and dependencies to ensure successful outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with clients and act as a trusted advisor throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and support to cross-functional delivery teams.
• Facilitate Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks while proactively resolving issues and removing blockers.
• Ensure solutions meet client requirements and deliver tangible business value.
• Communicate project progress, risks, and outcomes effectively to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Promote a collaborative, high-performing culture focused on quality and customer success.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional teams

Communication

Risk management

Project planning

Client engagement

Scrum / Kanban

Software lifecycle understanding

Job description

We are a leading PE-backed tech and digital transformation business specialising in application engineering and support, cloud, data and AI and security. We differentiate in our ability to solve legacy systems challenges, helping organisations transition to more agile and efficient solutions. Our mission is to empower businesses through innovative technology that drives growth and enhances operational efficiency.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Delivery Lead to join our team and ensure the successful delivery of our projects.

Our Technology Division has been trusted for more than a decade to deliver mission-critical digital development projects to a range of industries around the world. Our projects cover the entire delivery lifecycle from capturing initial business requirements, through to code development, QA activities – all the way through to release and ongoing production support.

Each TXP engagement is delivered with a strong backbone of solution and project governance; and where appropriate we deliver via standardised “as a service” offerings.

We believe that outcome-focused delivery governance is critical to delivering value to our clients. Our engagements are typically delivered following an Agile approach blended with key project management practices to ensure outcomes are delivered on time, on budget, and to the expected quality.

This hybrid role will involve some regular travel to meet with clients and to our Birmingham or London offices

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of digital, application development, and modernisation projects.
• Manage project plans, budgets, timelines, risks, and dependencies to ensure successful outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with clients and act as a trusted advisor throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and support to cross-functional delivery teams.
• Facilitate Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks while proactively resolving issues and removing blockers.
• Ensure solutions meet client requirements and deliver tangible business value.
• Communicate project progress, risks, and outcomes effectively to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Promote a collaborative, high-performing culture focused on quality and customer success.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience delivering complex technology projects within a consulting, professional services, or client-facing environment.
• Experience as a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, Project Manager, or similar leadership role.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate cross-functional teams to achieve successful outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and client engagement skills.
• Strong planning, prioritisation, and risk management capabilities.
• Experience managing multiple projects and competing priorities.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and influencing skills.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles and modern application delivery practices.
• Experience with project and delivery management tools.
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• An additional day of paid leave for your birthday (or Christmas eve)
• 4% Matched employer contributed pension (salary sacrifice)
• Private medical insurance through our partner Vitality.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme & other Health Benefits through our partner Medicash
• Octopus EV Scheme (salary sacrifice)
• Cycle to work scheme
• 2 x social value days per year to give back to local communities.

Grow with us:

Work on exciting new projects

If you want to avoid getting stuck with the mundane, you’re in the right place. We work in many sectors with fantastic clients, so you’ll always be working on something exciting and challenging.

We recognise that you might have a career path planned out and you might need some support to help you move forward. We’re here to support you and make the most out of your time with us, through challenging work, opportunities to grow and learning and development opportunities.

Be part of the TXP growth journey

We are a high growth, fast paced environment. We currently have 200+ employees and work with clients across the UK. Joining TXP means you’ll be part of that.