Technical Delivery Lead, Government Programs

Scrumconnect Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Lead to coordinate delivery across large central government digital programmes in the UK. You will sit between engineering teams and senior stakeholders, ensuring well-planned, technically sound delivery with continuous improvement across multi-team workstreams.

You will engage with senior civil servants, programme teams and delivery partners to manage risks, dependencies and governance, while coaching teams in agile delivery

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering digital programmes within UK central government.
• Proven track record as Delivery Lead on complex programmes (G6/G7 level or equivalent).
• Strong technical grounding: cloud, CI/CD, APIs, environments and release management.
• Proven experience engaging with civil service programme teams and government governance.
• Strong understanding of agile and lean delivery methodologies.
• Experience managing complex risks, issues and dependencies across multiple teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including explaining technical topics to non-technical audiences.
• Experience delivering or supporting cyber security programmes.
• Experience working across both local and central government.
• Familiarity with the Government Digital & Data (GDaD) framework.
• Experience working within GDS-aligned delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery across complex central government digital programmes and multi-team workstreams.
• Translate technical approach for non-technical stakeholders.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies and governance across workstreams.
• Oversee release planning, environments and deployment readiness.
• Align delivery with wider business objectives with senior civil servants.
• Drive agile and lean delivery practices.
• Coach teams and stakeholders on continuous improvement.
• Support programme planning, forecasting and governance activities.
• Coordinate cross-service, cross-team and cross-supplier dependencies.
• Identify and improve inefficient processes.
• Provide leadership during delivery challenges and unblock teams.

Skills

Delivery management

GDS delivery

Cloud CI/CD

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile delivery

Risk management

Governance familiarity

Non-technical comms

Job description

Scrumconnect Consulting is seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Lead to coordinate delivery across large central government digital programmes in the UK. You will sit between engineering teams and senior stakeholders, ensuring well-planned, technically sound delivery with continuous improvement across multi-team workstreams.

You will engage with senior civil servants, programme teams and delivery partners to manage risks, dependencies and governance, while coaching teams in agile delivery