Strategic Delivery Lead, Software & Platforms

Accenture; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in London seeks a Technology Delivery Manager to lead complex software product, platform engineering and digital transformation programmes. You will define delivery strategy, governance, and roadmaps across multiple workstreams, owning financials, resourcing and delivery health.

You will guide senior client stakeholders and mentor geographically distributed teams across product, engineering, security, data and operations.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex technology, software engineering, digital product or platform programmes.
• Strong programme leadership, commercial management, financial control and stakeholder influencing capabilities.
• Proven experience leading large, multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Strong understanding of product-centric delivery, Agile methods, the software development lifecycle and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex software product, platform engineering and technology transformation programmes.
• Define delivery strategy, governance, operating model, integrated roadmap and measurable outcomes across multiple workstreams.
• Own programme financials, forecasts, resourcing, contractual commitments, delivery assurance and overall programme health.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and act as an advisor on programme execution, product delivery and platform transformation.
• Lead geographically distributed teams spanning product, engineering, architecture, security, data, cloud, quality engineering and operations.
• Establish engineering and operational controls covering architecture, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, security, resilience, observability, release management and service transition.
• Drive proactive management of risks, issues, dependencies, technical debt and non-functional requirements.
• Shape AI-enabled delivery models, automation opportunities and reusable assets while maintaining responsible AI, privacy, security and governance requirements.
• Support business development, solutioning, estimates, proposals, mobilisation and contract shaping for Software & Platforms opportunities.

Skills

Programme leadership

Stakeholder influence

Distributed teams

Cloud-native & DevOps

Job description

Accenture in London seeks a Technology Delivery Manager to lead complex software product, platform engineering and digital transformation programmes. You will define delivery strategy, governance, and roadmaps across multiple workstreams, owning financials, resourcing and delivery health.

You will guide senior client stakeholders and mentor geographically distributed teams across product, engineering, security, data and operations.