Senior Delivery Manager - Azure Technology

British Heart Foundation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

British Heart Foundation (BHF) seeks a Senior Delivery Manager to lead delivery across infrastructure platforms on an 18-month fixed-term contract. You will coordinate with senior stakeholders and oversee services on the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring governance and policy compliance.

The role requires hands-on delivery across Azure, networking and cloud/platform services, operating in both project and product delivery modes to drive complex infrastructure initiatives.

Qualifications

• Significant relevant industry experience.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure platforms within a large organisation.
• Knowledge of agile and waterfall delivery practices.
• Ability to plan and manage different phases of product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with senior stakeholders and oversee services on the infrastructure roadmap.
• Deliver change across Azure, networking and cloud/platform services in project and product delivery modes.
• Ensure governance and compliance with technology processes and policies.

Skills

Industry experience

Infrastructure platforms

Agile delivery

Delivery planning

Job description

British Heart Foundation (BHF) funds lifesaving research. The Technology department is an integral internal partner for BHF to help deliver our overall organisational strategy, which is to support research and innovation, help people affected by heart and circulatory disease, and drive income growth across our commercial, retail, and fundraising offerings.

We’re looking to recruit a Senior Delivery Manager to join us on an 18-month fixed term contract, covering an internal secondment, and help shape and deliver new features and enhancements across a wide range of infrastructure platforms for BHF.

You’ll be responsible for coordinating with various senior stakeholders, overseeing the delivery of services on the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring compliance with technology processes and policies.

With delivery experience across Azure, networking and cloud/platform services, you’ll operate in both a project and product delivery capacity to drive outcomes across complex infrastructure initiatives.

Experienced working across Azure platform services, delivering change and adhering to governance controls with sufficient technical understanding to challenge, this role will coordinate and unblock complex delivery activity.

Working arrangements

Please note, this is an 18-month fixed term contract, covering an internal secondment.

This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

About you

• Significant relevant industry experience
• Strong knowledge and understanding of infrastructure platforms within an organisation of significant size
• Knowledge of agile and waterfall delivery practices and how best to apply these
• Be able to understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan and run these.

You’ll be an excellent strategic thinker and product leader with strong commercial nous, as well as have strong technical understanding, able to simplify complex problems into component parts for short, medium and long-term delivery.

Able to communicate effectively across team boundaries to create trust and effectively react and respond to challenge, you’ll be a team player andactive listenerwho can give clear, actionable feedback, allowing you to build trust, manage complex team dynamics, and motivate everyone to work towards a common goal.

Our work is fundamental to the health of the nation with an impact globally, so we require a world-class Technology team. If you have the skills and experience, we're looking for, then we want to hear from you!

About us

We are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.Embracing different perspectives and backgrounds strengthens our organisation and empowers us to make a real differencetogether.

To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.

Interview process

First stage interviews will be a short one-way video interview; successful candidates will then be invited to attend an interview via MS Teams, with final stage interviews held at our London offices.