Senior Delivery Manager

Job Title:

Senior Delivery Manager

Salary: £50,900 - £68,000

Location:

Cambridge, UK (Hybrid — we encourage applicants who are open to working in the office two days a week to apply)

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

35 hours per week, Full-time (Monday to Friday, standard UK business hours)

Discover a world of endless possibilities with Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a distinguished global academic publisher and assessment organisation, proudly part of the University of Cambridge.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We are looking for a dedicated Senior Delivery Manager to join our Exam Technology Organisation. The successful candidate will lead the successful delivery of cloud-native and platform-based solutions that support our global assessment operations.

Reporting to the Delivery Lead, your accountabilities will include:

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:

• Enabling effective delivery across a portfolio of applications and agile teams — managing dependencies, coordinating releases, and ensuring technical solutions are scalable, secure and fit for purpose.
• Owning the technology stack in scope, maintaining supportability, performance and security compliance, and leading technical impact assessments and delivery estimates.
• Working closely with Product Owners, developers, testers and architects to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of collaboration and accountability.
• Leading cross-functional teams — including developers, testers and Dev Ops engineers — without direct line management authority.
• Managing release planning, risk mitigation and stakeholder communication across complex delivery landscapes, influencing priorities with senior IT and business stakeholders.
• Supporting the expansion of cloud technologies and ensuring their integration into delivery pipelines and architecture.

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.

To be successful in this critical role, you will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Substantial experience in delivery management, project management or agile coaching within a software development environment.
• Should be able to demonstrate continuous delivery experience over multiple years within individual organisations.
• Deep understanding of Agile principles, with hands‑on experience facilitating Scrum or Kanban delivery.
• Solid working knowledge of cloud platforms — AWS in particular (Azure or GCP also welcome) — and how they integrate into delivery pipelines and architecture.
• Sufficient hands‑on technical understanding of cloud environments and modern application stacks to own supportability, challenge technical proposals and support delivery decisions.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, able to explain delivery concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
• Proven experience managing resource capacity, identifying skill gaps and planning team augmentation in a structured, forward‑looking way.
• A data‑driven mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement, experimentation and learning.
• Comfortable working with offshore and outsourced teams, collaborating effectively across time zones.

• Experience using Power BI or similar reporting tools.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Git Hub, Bitbucket or similar platforms.
• Awareness of emerging AI tools and their potential impact on delivery practices.
• Exposure to assessment technologies or exam board processes.
• Relevant cloud or delivery certification (e.g. AWS, Agile/Scrum, project management).

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

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