Senior Delivery Manager: Government Digital Services

scrumconnect ltd; Swansea; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting in Swansea is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to enable a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality digital services to UK government clients. You will remove blockers, drive continuous improvement, and ensure delivery cadence and predictability, within governed environments.

The role is hands-on, supports a government digital payments project, and requires strong stakeholder management, planning, governance, and collaboration to build healthy team cultures across

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Delivery Manager on multidisciplinary agile teams.
• Confident with Agile and Lean practices in production environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills - technical and non-technical.
• Experience maintaining delivery momentum and removing blockers.
• Planning, governance, and assurance experience.
• Experience with team dynamics and collaboration - building healthy team cultures.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for the effective delivery of complex, high-risk products and services.
• Lead delivery across a service or several teams throughout the product life cycle.
• Be the main point of escalation for delivery issues, risks, and dependencies.
• Engage senior stakeholders with strong, clear communication.
• Coach and mentor more junior delivery managers.
• Optimise the delivery flow of teams and identify innovative ways to unblock issues.

Skills

Delivery management

Agile & Lean

Stakeholder management

Blocker removal

Delivery momentum

Planning & governance

Team culture & collaboration

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting in Swansea is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to enable a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality digital services to UK government clients. You will remove blockers, drive continuous improvement, and ensure delivery cadence and predictability, within governed environments.

The role is hands-on, supports a government digital payments project, and requires strong stakeholder management, planning, governance, and collaboration to build healthy team cultures across