Senior Delivery Manager

Avenue3; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Avenue3 is seeking a Senior Agile Delivery Manager in Leeds to lead end-to-end delivery of high-priority software projects for clients in defence and health sectors. You will bridge business needs and engineering, removing blockers and enabling secure, high-quality digital products.

With a consulting, client-facing mindset, you will scale agile practices, mentor teams, and identify opportunities to deepen client engagements while ensuring governance and risk are managed effectively.

Qualifications

• Experience leading digital delivery projects in defence or health environments.
• Consulting mindset with client-focused delivery.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of high-priority software projects.
• Remove blockers and maintain delivery velocity.
• Foster high-performing teams and secure delivery outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to extend client engagements and add value.

Skills

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Blocker resolution

Team facilitation

Risk management

Security & compliance

Artefacts production

Continuous improvement

Client engagement

Commercial awareness

Proposal development

Mentoring

Job description

Who are we?

Avenue3 is a Yorkshire-based digital consultancy specialising in open data, modern engineering and the transformation of complex systems across health, government and regulated sectors. We bring deep expertise across strategy, discovery, architecture and engineering, helping organisations modernise systems and adopt open data standards for long-term interoperability.

Who are we?

Avenue3 is a Yorkshire-based digital consultancy specialising in open data, modern engineering and the transformation of complex systems across health, government and regulated sectors. We bring deep expertise across strategy, discovery, architecture and engineering, helping organisations modernise systems and adopt open data standards for long-term interoperability.

Our teams focus on high-quality delivery, using agile, collaborative ways of working that de-risk programmes and accelerate outcomes. Avenue3 offers a purpose-driven culture centred on impact, openness and meaningful problem-solving - giving engineers autonomy and influence over how we design and deliver solutions.

The opportunity

At Avenue3, we're looking for a Senior Agile Delivery Manager with a minimum of five years' experience, a strong background in defence or health environments, digital delivery experience, and a consulting, customer-focused mindset. Someone who can partner with clients to lead the end-to-end delivery of high-priority software development projects.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between complex client requirements and modern agile software engineering. You will be responsible for removing blockers, fostering a high-performing team culture, and ensuring the friction-free delivery of secure, impactful digital products.

You’ll thrive delivering in environments where the problem and solutions are not always fully defined, using the skills of the team to iterate the delivery to meet the clients needs. Acting as a trusted partner to both business and technical stakeholders, you'll translate strategic intent into well-scoped, deliverable workstreams that align with user needs, policy context and engineering reality.

Alongside your delivery work, you'll play a key role in identifying opportunities to extend and deepen client engagements, spotting where additional value can be unlocked through better processes, tools or smarter use of data.

Core Responsibilities

Agile Delivery & Governance

• Lead multi-disciplinary digital engineering teams using Agile methodologies to deliver robust, scalable solutions for our clients.
• Align delivery with relevant standards and frameworks (e.g. GDS service standard, BCS, open data standards) where appropriate to the client context.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary interface between technical teams and client stakeholders.
• Ability to translate complex technical roadmaps into clear operational updates.

Blocker Resolution & Team Facilitation

• Protect the team from external distractions.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives).
• Clear blockers.
• Maintain delivery velocity.

Risk & Security Management

• Navigate sector-specific compliance, governance and security assurance processes to minimise impact on agility.

Produce High-Quality Artefacts

• Produce the necessary programmatic artefacts calibrated to the needs of the team and the audience.

Continuous Improvement

• Foster a culture of learning, psychological safety, and data-driven improvement, using delivery metrics to optimise team performance.

Collaboration & Client Engagement

• Build trusted relationships with product owners, service owners, policy leads and operational stakeholders across client organisations.
• Communicate plans, options and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.

Commercial Awareness & Value Creation

• Work with account teams to develop a strong understanding of client organisations, their goals and the broader commercial and policy context, enabling you to identify opportunities to add value beyond immediate project scope, and opportunities for follow-on work, extensions or new engagements.

Develop Opportunities

• Contribute to proposals, statements of work and discovery outputs, shaping commercially viable and outcome-focused approaches.

Growth, Mentoring & Team Development

• Coach and mentor team members, fostering a culture of curiosity, rigour and continuous improvement through your contribution to knowledge-sharing and communities of practice.

Benefits And Culture

This role offers a competitive salary alongside a company pension and clear opportunities for ongoing growth.

We foster an inclusive, supportive culture where engineering excellence, personal development and innovation are valued - and where people are trusted to deliver meaningful impact in a collaborative, open environment.