Senior Delivery Manager

Nixor; Leeds; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Benefits

Job summary

Nixor is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager – Software Engineering in Leeds to lead and develop software delivery across engineering teams within a major professional services firm. The role sits at the intersection of people leadership and delivery, not hands-on coding, driving capacity, blockers, and agile practices.

You will partner with Product Managers and Tech Leads to enable high-performance teams, shaping culture, structure, and priorities to support a modern, product-led engineering

Qualifications

• Proven experience directly managing and developing software engineers.
• Strong software or digital delivery management experience.
• Experience coaching development teams through software delivery.
• Track record of identifying and removing significant delivery blockers.
• Experience managing engineering capacity, resources and competing priorities.
• Strong knowledge of agile and lean software delivery.
• Experience working with Product Managers and engineering leads.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience operating within a matrix organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead people and engineering team leadership for software delivery.
• Own software delivery across multiple engineering teams; manage capacity and blockers.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Tech Leads to align priorities.
• Shape agile practices and ensure delivery goals are met.
• Drive engineering culture towards a modern, product-led approach.

Skills

Leadership

Software delivery management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Communication

Matrix organisation

People development

Resource planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Senior Delivery Manager – Software Engineering

Package: Up to £90k + Company Benefits

A leading professional services firm is investing significantly in its digital and technology capability, bringing previously separate development teams together into a central engineering function. As part of this transformation, they are looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to play a key role in building high-performing engineering teams and ensuring the successful delivery of software.

The role has two equally important areas of responsibility:

1. People & Engineering Team Leadership

Managing and coaching a team of software engineers, with responsibility for their performance, development and progression. You'll work closely with technical leadership to create an environment where engineers can develop their skills, perform at their best and deliver effectively. You're not reviewing code or acting as a technical assessor.

2. Software Delivery Leadership

Taking ownership of software delivery across engineering teams. You'll manage capacity and resources, resolve delivery blockers, manage risks and dependencies, and work closely with Product Managers and Tech Leads to ensure teams have the people, skills and support needed to deliver.

This is not a Service Delivery role, nor is it a hands-on technical Engineering Manager position. It sits at the intersection of people leadership, engineering and software delivery.

The Opportunity

The wider engineering function is evolving, giving the successful candidate an opportunity to influence how software engineering operates within a major professional services organisation.

They will help shape engineering culture, agile ways of working, team structures, resource deployment and career development as the organisation moves towards a more modern, product-led engineering model.

The environment will suit someone who enjoys building and improving rather than simply maintaining established processes.

• Proven experience directly managing and developing software engineers.
• Strong software or digital delivery management experience.
• Experience coaching development teams through software delivery.
• A track record of identifying and removing significant delivery blockers.
• Experience managing engineering capacity, resources and competing priorities.
• Strong practical knowledge of agile and lean software delivery.
• Experience working alongside Product Managers and technical/engineering leads.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience operating within a matrix organisation or across multiple engineering teams.

A software engineering or technical background would be useful, but is not essential. The priority is finding someone who combines strong people leadership with a proven ability to make software delivery happen.