DDaT Delivery Manager; FTC

Directorate:
Strategy & Innovation
Contract Type: 18 Months Fixed Term Contract

Hours:

36
Salary: 48,003 - 53,172

Location:

Colindale
Closing Date:
Midnight March 9th 2026

Barnet is a borough with much to be proud of. Our excellent schools, vibrant town centres, vast green spaces and diverse communities all help make it a great place to live and work. As a council we want to build on these strengths as we move into the future. We are growing and developing as an organisation to meet the challenges facing our borough and we are committed to working with partner organisations and residents to make Barnet even better.

As an organisation, our staff are committed to Our Values:
Learning to Improve, Caring, Inclusive, Collaborative - which drive everything we do.

As a DDaT Delivery Manager within Barnet's Strategy & Innovation directorate, you will sit at the centre of a growing digital function focused on improving resident and customer outcomes. You will play a key role in delivering a broad range of digital, data and technology (DDaT) projects that support the council's financial sustainability and wider strategic ambitions. This is a fastpaced and highly collaborative role, working with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders across the organisation to ensure projects progress smoothly from inception to delivery.

You will take responsibility for driving delivery across multiple projects–tracking milestones, clearing blockers, coordinating teams and ensuring benefits are realised. You will build strong working relationships with services across Barnet to identify process improvements, opportunities and efficiencies. Operating as a central figure within Barnet's digital delivery ecosystem, you will influence ways of working, strengthen delivery practices and help shape the future of the council's DDaT function.

Alongside delivery, you’ll provide digital consultancy and business partnering–triaging and prioritising requests, offering guidance, sharing best practice and helping services translate organisational goals into practical, outcomes-focused delivery. You will support the council in embedding a digital-first mindset, championing agile approaches, quality service design, accessibility, inclusion and a test‑learn‑iterate culture.

This newly created role provides significant scope to shape ways of working, influence major programmes and contribute directly to the success of Barnet's digital strategy and multimillion‑pound savings ambitions. This is a newly created role with significant scope to shape how Barnet adopts new technology, and offers the opportunity to influence strategy, set standards, and deliver meaningful impact for residents. It is a hybrid role – you will be expected to be in our Colindale offices an average of once a week.

We also come into the office as required to meet service stakeholders, work together on collaboration, discovery and user testing sessions and department days.

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You are an experienced Delivery Manager with a strong track record in a DDaT environment, comfortable leading a variety of delivery life cycles—from traditional waterfall approaches to agile, iterative delivery. You have proven experience guiding projects through initiation, requirements, design, testing, deployment and service transition, and you are confident managing risks, dependencies and change across complex technical portfolios.

You bring strong leadership skills, able to work effectively in multidisciplinary and matrix environments and draw on the collective capability of technical specialists, service teams and partners. You are outcomes-driven and user-focused, able to translate Barnet's strategic goals into clear deliverables and practical plans for successful implementation. Your judgement is informed by evidence, insight and experience, enabling you to make well‑reasoned decisions about project direction, priority and scope.

You are a confident communicator who can adapt your style to different audiences, effectively influence stakeholders and champion best practice. You understand digital principles,…