Software Delivery Lead — SDLC & Release Management

evergreen life; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Evergreen Life seeks aDelivery Manager to own the operational cadence of our end-to-end SDLC, coordinating governance, release management, and post-deployment monitoring. You will act as the connective tissue across Product, Technology and Engineering, freeing leadership to focus on technical direction.

The role requires several years’ experience delivering software and a readiness to take on more responsibility with potential for seniority within a supportive, health-focused culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Project/Delivery Manager in a software development environment, covering the full SDLC.
• Exposure to cloud environments, modern software applications, or SaaS product delivery.
• Experience interacting with stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams with competing priorities and dependencies.
• Experience using Agile delivery approaches such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Ability to maintain accurate project plans, roadmaps, risks and delivery reports.
• Strong written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with project management, issue tracking and documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Ownership: Track delivery across the entire SDLC—from ideation to technical build, post-release monitoring, and commercial handover.
• Roadmap Accuracy: Maintain a dynamic view of current delivery progress and upcoming engineering plans for leadership visibility.
• Team Commitments & Flow: Partner with engineering and product teams to meet commitments, clear blockers, and streamline cross-functional communication.
• Agile Operational Support: Provide hands-on administrative support for Scrum/Kanban frameworks, ensuring ticket hygiene, sprint ceremonies, and backlog prioritisation.
• Release & Incident Coordination: Oversee release management schedules and support incident response workflows.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a central communication bridge between ICs, senior and executive leadership.
• Meeting & Agenda Ownership: Own cadence, agendas, and outputs for key engineering and delivery meetings.
• Process Improvement & Morale: Identify workflow inefficiencies, eliminate pain points, and monitor team morale.
• Standards Enforcement: Define, uphold, and enforce engineering and delivery standards across projects.
• QMS & SDLC Compliance: Support governance by ensuring processes align with Quality Management Systems and regulatory frameworks.
• Operational Reporting: Own engineering Risk Register, delivery metrics, capacity/utilisation, and time-recording reporting.
• Financial Admin: Manage engineering-related financial reporting, POs, and vendor invoice reconciliation.

Skills

Delivery management

SDLC

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Stakeholder management

Project planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Release management

Governance reporting

Jira

Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Evergreen Life seeks aDelivery Manager to own the operational cadence of our end-to-end SDLC, coordinating governance, release management, and post-deployment monitoring. You will act as the connective tissue across Product, Technology and Engineering, freeing leadership to focus on technical direction.

The role requires several years’ experience delivering software and a readiness to take on more responsibility with potential for seniority within a supportive, health-focused culture.