Delivery Orchestration Lead

At National Grid, our commitment to a cleaner, greener energy future is powered by the dedication and ingenuity of our people. Join our team as a Delivery Orchestration Lead and be a part of something bigger—where your unique skills and passions can make a real difference. Together, we are superpowered.

National Grid is hiring a Delivery Orchestration Lead on a permanent basis. This position is based in Warwick.
This role operates under a hybrid working model. Hybrid work expectations are subject to business needs and company policy.

As Delivery Orchestration Lead, you'll keep delivery flowing across our digital deliveries. You'll own cross-product and platform delivery flow from planning through to go-live, coordinate the Release Train Engineers, and give leadership a single credible view of what is committed and what will land. You'll be accountable, alongside other members of the product, architecture and engineering community as appropriate, for the following:

Integrated planning

• Own the integrated delivery plan across products and platforms as the single credible view of committed change, refreshed each Programme Increment and maintained between.
• Lead Programme Increment planning across the trains, covering readiness, facilitation, dependency mapping and confirmation of the commitments made.

Dependencies, impediments and risk

• Publish the cross-train dependency and impediment view, drive resolution to agreed dates, and elevate where progress stalls.
• Own the delivery risk position across the trains, with named owners, mitigations and a clear decision required of leadership.

Release and go-live assurance

• Own the integrated release schedule and the sequencing of interdependent releases across products, platforms and business areas.
• Assure environment readiness and evidence release readiness ahead of every go-live decision, including cutover, rollback and early-life support arrangements.

Delivery insight and predictability

• Publish delivery cadence and predictability reporting covering predictability, throughput, cycle time and capacity.
• Use that evidence to diagnose and fix delivery problems rather than simply to report status, and agree improvement targets with each train.

Coordinate the Release Train Engineers

• Work with the Release Train Engineers to set objectives, managing performance and development, and holding each to a consistent operating standard across their train.
• Own the delivery career pathway, the hiring standard for Release Train Engineer and delivery roles, and the delivery community of practice.
• Plan Release Train Engineer capacity across the trains, including cover for absence and the onboarding of new trains.

Partners and collaboration

• Hold system integrators and managed service partners to the train cadence and the integrated plan, and report partner delivery performance.
• Partner with the Product Management, Solution Architecture and Engineering Enablement Leads so that the four practice standards form one coherent operating model.

• Extensive experience of orchestrating delivery across multiple Agile Release Trains, products and platforms in a complex organisation.
• Deep, practical knowledge of scaled agile, ideally SAFe, including the roles, cadences, ceremonies and artefacts that make Agile Release Trains work in practice rather than in theory.
• Proven track record of leading Programme Increment planning at scale, including readiness, facilitation, dependency mapping and management of the programme board and risks raised.
• Experience of leading or coaching Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters or equivalent delivery roles, with the credibility to set standards they will follow.
• Experience of owning integrated delivery plans and release schedules across interdependent trains and work streams, including release and environment management, cutover planning and go-live assurance.
• Confident use of flow, capacity and predictability metrics to diagnose delivery problems and drive measurable improvement.
• Experience of managing delivery through system integrators and managed service partners, aligning partner ways of working to the train cadence.
• A good understanding of financial management, benefits management and realisation linked to business results.
• Ability to successfully operate at a senior manager level, forming strong relationships and engagement as needed across all levels of the Business Entity.
• Experience of working within a heavily matrixed organisation, with the ability to drive for results.
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