Delivery Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Coordinate the delivery of multiple interconnected projects or workstreams to ensure alignment with program objectives.

• Maintain an overarching view of progress, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements throughout the program.

• Assist in shaping the roadmap and program-level planning in collaboration with Technical Leads and product/strategy stakeholders.

• Facilitate alignment among teams regarding priorities, architectural considerations, and task sequencing.

• Lead delivery initiatives utilizing Kanban and flow-based agile methodologies.

• Monitor work-in-progress, identify blockers, track throughput, and manage upcoming priorities.

• Assist teams in balancing feature delivery, managing technical debt, making architectural improvements, and conducting research spikes.

• Enhance continuous flow and minimize bottlenecks throughout the delivery stages.

• Provide succinct reporting for program sponsors and senior leadership.

• Track objectives, milestones, and commitments across various workstreams.

• Document decisions, risks, issues, and actions in a lightweight, traceable manner.

• Contribute to the maturation of TwinStream’s agile, value-driven delivery governance framework.

• Identify, escalate, and mitigate risks at the program level.

• Coordinate dependencies that span across teams and vendors.

• Support the resolution of blockers that cross technical or organizational boundaries.

• Serve as the central point of coordination for engineering, Technical Leads, internal stakeholders, and relevant customers.

• Communicate delivery updates effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Align expectations concerning timelines, scope, assumptions, and emerging risks.

• Assist commercial teams with pre-sales activities, estimation, and discussions related to contracts or changes.

• Enhance TwinStream’s delivery framework, tools, documentation, and scalable delivery practices.

• Foster transparency, psychological safety, and a proactive delivery culture.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be based in the UK.

• Eligible for DV clearance.

• Must fulfill UK Government residency and right-to-work criteria associated with the required clearance level.

• Experience in managing software delivery across multiple teams or workstreams.

• Strong grasp of flow-based agile delivery and program-level planning.

• Demonstrated ability to identify cross-cutting risks, significant dependencies, and structural blockers.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills at all levels of the organization.

• Confidence in operating within structured environments without extensive processes.

• Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to provide clarity amid uncertainty.

🏝️ Benefits

• Pension plan featuring an 8% employer contribution.

• Comprehensive private medical healthcare, including dental and optical care for the employee and their family.

• Support for learning and development, with the autonomy to shape career progression.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Electric vehicle leasing scheme available through salary sacrifice.

• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.

• Quarterly meetings, Christmas parties, and summer gatherings.

• Life assurance coverage.

• Cycle-to-work scheme.