Senior Delivery Manager

A leading investment management organisation in London City is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager for an initial 6 month contract to shape and support a high-performing engineering team and ensure that business value is delivered through effective coaching, facilitation, and planning. As the central orchestrator of multiple delivery streams, you will be instrumental in managing dependencies, prioritising work across product backlogs, and aligning team efforts with strategic objectives.

What you'll do:

As a Senior Delivery Manager you will play an integral part in creating an environment where engineering delivery teams excel. Your day-to-day activities will involve close collaboration with senior stakeholders to interpret strategic goals into actionable plans. You will facilitate design sprints and guide engineering teams through high-level solution design processes. By overseeing feature estimation sessions and developing robust governance frameworks, you will ensure projects are well-resourced and structured for success. Your ability to create clarity around business priorities will keep both development teams and business units focused on shared objectives. Managing complex programmes through a scrum of scrums approach will require you to implement effective team structures while promoting best practices in agile delivery. You will also serve as a mentor for Scrum Masters and Product Owners-removing obstacles, encouraging self-organisation, and championing continuous improvement initiatives. In addition to these responsibilities, you will lead employee management efforts within your remit by upholding group policies designed to optimise performance. Your collaborative spirit will be essential as you work alongside Product Owners to emphasise the value of incremental releases and technical excellence.

• Engage with senior stakeholders to understand strategic direction and facilitate design sprints while producing high-level solution designs alongside engineering teams to deliver on organisational vision.
• Facilitate high-level feature estimation sessions with delivery teams, producing comprehensive plans, resource requirements, and governance structures to ensure successful project execution.
• Create a clear vision mapped to business values and strategies, ensuring that priority items are addressed promptly and that both business and development teams remain aligned with the strategic roadmap.
• Manage and facilitate a scrum of scrums framework across larger programmes of work by implementing effective team structures, governance models, and agreed ways of working.
• Take responsibility for features delivered by ensuring each release provides measurable business value while maintaining quality standards for software handed over to Site Reliability Engineers.
• Act as an escalation point for Scrum Masters, adopting a coaching approach to encourage self-organisation and best practices among scrum masters and product owners while fostering continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners to communicate the importance of minimal viable products, regular releases, and addressing technical debt within development cycles.
• Lead all aspects related to employee management within your area of responsibility by applying consistent management discretion in line with group policies and procedures to maximise performance outcomes.

What you bring:

To excel as a Senior Delivery Manager in this highly respected investment management setting, you will bring substantial experience guiding technology delivery teams through complex projects using agile methodologies. Your background should include exposure to asset management or financial services environments where understanding institutional fund operations is beneficial. You will have honed your skills facilitating agile ceremonies-such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and scrum of scrums-while providing mentorship that encourages growth among team members. Familiarity with tools like Jira is important for tracking progress transparently across multiple initiatives. Your ability to collaborate effectively with developers, subject matter experts, Product Owners, and other stakeholders ensures everyone remains aligned on priorities. A graduate-level education or equivalent practical experience underpins your technical acumen; any additional certifications in agile practices further strengthen your profile. Above all else, your approachable communication style combined with a genuine desire to nurture high-performing teams sets you apart as someone who thrives in supportive leadership roles.

• Demonstrable experience as a Delivery Manager or similar role within technology-focused environments where facilitating agile ceremonies and coaching teams was central to your responsibilities.
• Proven track record of working effectively in asset management or financial services settings with an understanding of institutional fund management functions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of front-to-back trade lifecycle processes coupled with practical experience using agile work management tools such as Jira.
• Solid background in software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies with hands-on experience delivering iterative solutions through agile frameworks.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously while maintaining transparency through collaborative engagement with developers and subject matter experts.
• Experience running retrospectives aimed at implementing continuous improvement strategies within development teams to enhance productivity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated by your capacity to engage constructively with colleagues at all levels-including mentoring Engineering Delivery Managers-and fostering high-performing team cultures.
• Graduate calibre education ideally supported by a degree in technology or equivalent demonstrable experience; additional certifications such as Scrum Master or Agile qualifications are advantageous but not essential.

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