Delivery Lead

Delivery Lead – Up to £46,000 + Bonus + Exceptional Benefits (Civil Service Pension) + Hybrid (Stratford, London)

We're looking for a passionate and collaborative Delivery Lead to drive the successful delivery of digital products and projects, enabling teams to perform at their best whilst fostering a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, and accountability.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys removing barriers, coaching teams, improving delivery flow, and working closely with stakeholders to ensure value is delivered consistently and predictably.

What You'll Be Doing

Leading the end-to-end delivery of digital products and projects across cross-functional teams.
Facilitating Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews, and Kanban cadences.
Driving continuous improvement by identifying and removing delivery blockers and bottlenecks.
Using delivery metrics and real-time data to improve team performance, predictability, and flow.
Building strong relationships with product, technology, business, and external stakeholders across multiple locations and time zones.
Coaching teams in Agile, Lean, Scrum, and Kanban practices, helping them become increasingly self-managing and high-performing.
Managing dependencies across teams to ensure successful and timely delivery.
Creating clear visibility of progress, risks, and priorities through delivery dashboards and reporting.
Working with third-party partners and suppliers to ensure alignment with delivery goals and ways of working.

What We're Looking For

Proven experience leading digital, technology, or product delivery in Agile environments.
Strong understanding of Agile frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean delivery approaches.
Experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
Strong knowledge of delivery metrics such as Lead Time, Cycle Time, Throughput, Velocity, and Flow.
Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, Planner, and Microsoft Teams.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
Strong servant leadership mindset with a passion for coaching teams rather than directing them.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear and engaging business communications.

Desirable

Experience leading remote teams across multiple countries and time zones.
Experience delivering infrastructure, cloud, platform, or digital transformation programmes.
Experience working with third-party suppliers and delivery partners.
SAFe, Azure, or additional Agile certifications.

Certifications

Scrum Master (CSM or PSM) or Kanban Management Professional (KMP) – Essential
SAFe certification – Advantageous
Cloud certifications – Beneficial Delivery Lead – Up to £46,000 + Bonus + Exceptional Benefits (Civil Service Pension) + Hybrid (Stratford, London)