Senior Delivery Manager

Appvia; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud consultancy in London is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to lead Azure cloud migrations and engineering best practices in a hybrid role. You'll work closely with internal teams and stakeholders, ensuring high-quality service delivery in fast-paced environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud platforms, Agile methodologies, and project management certifications. Competitive salary and benefits package offered.

Benefits

25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Flexible working hours

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Learning budget of £1,000 a year

Dog-friendly office

Regular team socials

Qualifications

• Passionate about new technology and automation.
• Experienced in leading an engineering team in Agile and DevOps best practices.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead Agile ceremonies including stand-ups and planning.
• Ensure DevOps team is self-organising and motivated.
• Engage with technical architects to facilitate solution definitions.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Cloud migration

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Project management

Education

Professional certification in project management and relevant cloud technologies

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Senior Delivery Manager - Appvia

Location: London, UK (Hybrid : 2 days in office per week)

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

Salary: £60,000-£80,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits

About Us

At Appvia, we’re a specialist platform engineering consultancy and product house committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting‑edge technologies and services to support and accelerate our clients’ cloud adoption journey. We’re looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join the team and help lead the delivery of multiple projects within private and public sector clients.

We’ve built our reputation working with some of the UK’s most complex and highly regulated environments, including central government and financial institutions, where we help customers cut through complexity and deliver lasting change.

About The Role

This role is initially focused on a new customer engagement working hard to deliver an Azure cloud migration and set up platform engineering best practices. As a Senior Delivery Manager, you take a lead role and will be a key decision maker, liaising with senior internal and third‑party stakeholders who are involved in cutting‑edge Cloud, Data and AI solutions.>

You will have a strong background and extensive experience delivering cloud platforms and migrations. You will enjoy working in a fast‑paced environment and use your expertise to direct, advise and support your team to deliver high‑quality services, engaging with wider teams and stakeholders to manage opportunities, risks and escalations, ensuring the quality of the service being delivered meets business needs.

Interview process (3 stages)

• Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager
• Technical interview with the Delivery team member
• Leadership final interview

Requirements – About you

You’ll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in leading an engineering team in Agile and DevOps best practices. You’ll also be able to discuss your:

• Knowledge of continuous integration, deployment practices and platform engineering principles
• Ability to collaborate with people at all levels of technical ability
• Understanding of industry best practices
• Project Management experience
• Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Agile ceremonies including stand‑ups, backlog refinement, planning and retrospectives
• Ensure the DevOps team is self‑organising, engaged, motivated and part of the Agile delivery process
• Engage with technical architects, tech leads and peripheral delivery teams to facilitate solution definitions for our clients
• Ensure the detailed capture of technical work items on the product backlog and that they are estimated with agreed acceptance criteria
• Work with internal and client leads to prioritise backlog and communicate progress of these items as applicable
• Ensure appropriate technical documentation is created and shared with relevant people
• Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing between the engineering team and client teams, such as scheduling and managing show‑and‑tells
• Engage with project and GTM teams on the progress of deliverables and communicate cloud platform dependencies to our clients as necessary
• Produce and distribute regular updates on delivery, impediments and issues

Qualifications

Professional certification in project management and relevant cloud technologies (AWS, Azure) is highly desirable, such as:

• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI‑ACP)
• AgilePM® Practitioner (APMG International)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) Agilist / Practitioner
• Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II) – Scrum.org
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum Alliance
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• AWS Certified: Solutions Architect Associate

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Flexible working with core hours of 10‑4 p.m. because we know life happens outside of work
• Hybrid working – only one compulsory office day per month
• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• Additional day off for your birthday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay
• Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents
• Full private healthcare cover with partners and children covered 50%
• Death in service benefit
• Cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme, and pension with salary sacrifice options
• Employee assistance programme
• Free hygiene products available in the London office
• Free therapy through AXA
• Access to the Headspace app and trained mental health first aiders
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year
• Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia
• Dog‑friendly office, wear what makes you comfortable
• Free snacks in the office, pool table, ping‑pong table and darts board
• Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more

But don’t just take our word for it – you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

Equal Opportunities Employer

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.

Note

While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start‑up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.