Senior Delivery Manager

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, Out Systems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award‑winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do. We are a core‑values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them. We deeply embed our values within our DNA and invest in our people.

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300 strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• + years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

Key Responsibilities:

• Embed a product‑centric, agile delivery culture, enabling our teams to deliver products that drive forward our mission.
• Facilitate communication, coordination, and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
• Design and embed Agile delivery.
• Maintain a focus on learning and continuous improvement.
• Create an inclusive and effective team delivering innovative, high‑value products.
• Optimise team culture, performance, and health, supporting individuals and teams to operate at their peak and finding innovative ways to improve ways‑of‑working.
• Establish and mature delivery management processes, including roadmap and release coordination.
• Manage resource planning and allocation, identifying and mitigating risks.
• Support product and technology leads in managing demand and delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement and cross‑team collaboration.
• Drive Agile or Hybrid projects forward on time, to budget and best quality.
• Stakeholder engagement and management.
• Weekly overview and delivery assurance meeting.
• Standard Delivery Manager duties including project scope, detailed project work‑plan, RAID analysis, governance, documentation and risk management.

Qualifications:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in technology, business, humanities, or engineering.
• Demonstrable experience in Agile Delivery or Programme Management (preferred).
• Broad experience in agile frameworks and methods applied across multiple stages of the project lifecycle in service or software delivery. Ability to adapt these pragmatically and innovatively to meet the needs of a team and client. Experience with Scrum, Kanban, and lean methodologies and tools such as Jira and Trello.
• Strong relationship building and mediation skills.
• Adjust delivery management approach, including agile techniques and leadership, to suit different client contexts and team needs.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, team enablement and coaching skills.
• Leadership: role‑model positive and supportive servant‑leadership behaviours. Ability to adjust leadership approach to meet the needs of a diverse team and create the right motivating environment. Champion ways‑of‑working and positive team culture.
• Experience working with globally dispersed teams.
• Excellent communication: strong listening, verbal and written skills, proven ability to build relationships and facilitate effectively, ask the right questions to keep meetings focused, and communicate sensitive messages and navigate difficult conversations steering toward positive outcomes.
• Commercial mindset and ability to drive culture change.
• Experience with Pre‑Sales, including contributions to proposals to win new business.
• Experience leading Agile delivery in product‑centric teams through discovery, alpha and beta phases, embedding continuous delivery, iteration and user‑focused improvement.
• Experience delivering Software Development, Data or Cloud Migration projects.

• Collaborate with team members and clients to ensure the project roadmap delivers what is needed in the desired timeframe.
• Assess feasibility of delivery and identify risks and dependencies…