Technical Delivery Lead

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

Mott Mac Donald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation, enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business, specifically designed for our global reach.

We are looking for a Technical Delivery Lead to join our Central Digital AI team.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for an experienced project manager who combines disciplined delivery management with strong technical understanding and practical engineering capability. You will lead multidisciplinary teams that create AI agents and wider AI and automation solutions.

You will own complex digital and innovation projects and programmes end-to-end, from concept and business case through design, build and assurance to deployment, adoption and scaled operation. A central part of the role is turning promising pilots into robust, repeatable and scalable tools that deliver measurable value.

You will be expected to move between governance forums, delivery plans and stakeholder decisions and practical work such as prototyping agents, shaping workflows, connecting data and tools, reviewing technical designs, testing behaviour and resolving delivery blockers.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

End-to-end delivery leadership

• Shape the opportunity. Work with business users and domain specialists to define the problem, intended outcomes, scope, success measures, constraints and route to value.
• Lead from concept to scale. Own complex digital and innovation projects and programmes through discovery, business case, design, build, test, deployment, adoption, benefits realisation and transition into sustainable operations.
• Plan and control delivery. Establish integrated delivery plans, milestones, budgets, resource profiles, dependencies and critical paths; manage risks, assumptions, issues, decisions and change control. Understand when to elevate and strong focus on risks as well as unblocking challenges.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams. Bring together technical delivery, data science, software development, engineering, design, domain and operational expertise, ensuring that responsibilities and interfaces are understood.
• Assure adoption and service readiness. Plan testing, user acceptance, training, communications, deployment, operational support, monitoring and handover so that solutions are adopted and sustained.

• Deliver applied AI and automation. Lead initiatives involving advanced analytics, machine learning, computer vision and intelligent automation, translating technical possibilities into practical, safe and valuable solutions.
• Build agents.…