Senior Delivery Lead, Secure Tech & Defence Programs

IBM SiXworks; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Bank holidays included

Private Medical cover

Life Assurance

Generous pension (10% employer, 5%员工)

Bonus

Professional development and training

Secure parking

On-site gym

Café & restaurant on site

Job summary

SiXworks is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, high-value projects across secure digital, software and technology solutions. You will drive delivery strategies, manage large multidisciplinary teams and ensure governance, security and service readiness throughout complex programs.

You will partner with senior stakeholders, influence strategic decisions, and own project budgets while supporting business development and bid activity in defence and national security sectors.

Qualifications

• Extensive project management experience delivering complex technology or digital projects.
• Demonstrated success managing large multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience operating within secure, regulated or mission-critical environments.
• Strong commercial, financial and contractual management capability.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and customers.
• APM PMQ, APM ChPP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent.
• Experience in defence, national security, government or critical infrastructure sectors.
• Experience delivering large-scale software engineering, cloud, data or AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience supporting business development or bid activity.
• Experience of working with MoD customers (preferably with RAF and in Command and Control (C2) or Air Battle space Management (ABM) environments)

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, high-value projects with significant technical, commercial or organisational complexity.
• Establish delivery strategies for successful customer outcomes.
• Align project execution with programme, portfolio and business objectives.
• Provide leadership across ambiguous or rapidly evolving environments.
• Lead large multidisciplinary teams delivering secure digital, software and technology solutions.
• Manage complex dependencies across suppliers, customers and internal teams.
• Balance pace of delivery with governance, security and assurance requirements.
• Drive recovery plans where project performance is at risk.
• Lead complex transition activities from project delivery into managed service operation.
• Ensure operational support arrangements and service governance are established.
• Work with Technical Leads to achieve successful adoption and long-term service performance.
• Drive delivery readiness for Service Acceptance Gate approvals.
• Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders.
• Manage executive-level communications and governance forums.
• Influence decisions across project, programme and organisational boundaries.
• Handle sensitive delivery, commercial and operational challenges.
• Partner with Account Directors to strengthen strategic customer relationships.
• Contribute to account planning and growth discussions.
• Identify opportunities for follow-on work, service expansion or new capability development.
• Own significant project budgets and forecasts.
• Manage financial performance, margin and commercial risks.
• Support bid activities, project mobilisation and transition planning.
• Balance customer outcomes and delivery commitments against margin, resource utilisation and organisational priorities.
• Coach and mentor Junior Project Managers and Project Managers.
• Support development of delivery frameworks, governance approaches and lessons learned.
• Contribute to the wider capability development of the delivery function.
• Lead management of complex delivery risks.
• Direct project assurance activities.
• Support audits, reviews and customer assurance processes.
• Ensure effective decision-making and escalation management.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Security environment

Commercial management

Bid support

MoD experience

Software delivery

Cloud/AI solutions

Job description

SiXworks is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, high-value projects across secure digital, software and technology solutions. You will drive delivery strategies, manage large multidisciplinary teams and ensure governance, security and service readiness throughout complex programs.

You will partner with senior stakeholders, influence strategic decisions, and own project budgets while supporting business development and bid activity in defence and national security sectors.