Delivery Manager – Contract Outside of IR35

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

📋 Description

• Coordinate the delivery across multiple related 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 planning at the program level alongside Technical Leads and product/strategy stakeholders.

• Facilitate discussions across teams to align on priorities, architectural considerations, and sequencing.

• Lead delivery efforts utilizing Kanban and flow-based agile methodologies across one or more teams.

• Ensure visibility of work-in-progress, identify blockers, monitor throughput, and highlight upcoming priorities.

• Aid teams in balancing the delivery of features, managing technical debt, implementing architectural improvements, and conducting research/activity spikes.

• Foster continuous flow, minimize bottlenecks, and guarantee smooth transitions between delivery phases.

• Provide succinct reporting for program sponsors and senior leadership.

• Monitor progress against objectives, milestones, and commitments across various workstreams.

• Record key decisions, risks, issues, and actions in a streamlined and traceable manner.

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

• Identify and manage risks at the program level; coordinate dependencies across teams and vendors.

• Employ a pragmatic RAID process to maintain visibility and drive mitigation strategies.

• Assist teams in overcoming blockers that span technical or organizational boundaries.

• Coordinate with engineering, Technical Leads, internal stakeholders, and customers as necessary.

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

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

• Support commercial teams during pre-sales, estimation, and contract/change discussions as required.

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

• Establish scalable delivery patterns for complex, multi-stream programs.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in managing software delivery across multiple teams or workstreams, rather than just single-project coordination.

• Strong knowledge 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 organizational levels.

• Confidence in working in environments that value structure while avoiding overly heavy processes.

• A pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to provide clarity amidst uncertainty.

• Eligibility for the necessary UK Government security clearance level (BPSS / SC / DV).

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

• Successful completion of relevant security screening and clearance processes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote.

• Rolling 3-month contract outside of IR35.

• £500 to £700 per day.