Senior Delivery Lead — Live Sports Tech & Delivery

Champion Data; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Champion Data seeks a Senior Delivery Lead to orchestrate delivery across multiple client engagements in a fast-paced sport-tech environment. You will align scope, schedule, cost and risk, working with engineers, product owners and clients to guide delivery from inception through live events.

You will coach teams, challenge estimates, and ensure delivery plans meet deadlines for big match days, while maintaining high quality and effective stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• Typically 8+ years in professional delivery roles delivering technology projects
• Experience leading ongoing technology services, projects or releases end to end
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence and reporting tools such as Excel or Power BI

Responsibilities

• Build integrated delivery plans across scope, schedule, cost, risk and dependencies.
• Lead scope management to protect milestones and timeboxes.
• Ensure release-readiness criteria are defined and applied.
• Balance features with non-functional requirements like performance and reliability.
• Manage milestones and critical path against deadlines and forecasts.
• Maintain living risk and issue registers and propose options.
• Report status clearly through RAG/RAID and executive updates.
• Translate business needs into high-level requirements for the team.
• Facilitate sprint reviews and retrospectives to improve delivery.
• Communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Client management

Agile & Lean

Risk management

Jira & Confluence

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Champion Data seeks a Senior Delivery Lead to orchestrate delivery across multiple client engagements in a fast-paced sport-tech environment. You will align scope, schedule, cost and risk, working with engineers, product owners and clients to guide delivery from inception through live events.

You will coach teams, challenge estimates, and ensure delivery plans meet deadlines for big match days, while maintaining high quality and effective stakeholder communication.