Sainsbury’s Tech – Delivery Manager – Data Ecosystem
As a highly experienced Delivery Manager in Sainsbury’s Tech, you’ll collaborate with Product, Engineering, and business teams to lead delivery across multiple initiatives, contributing towards key strategic outcomes and programmes to generate customer, colleague, and business value. With significant uptick in tech investment, there are many transformational initiatives to deliver; the Delivery Manager will play a key part in ensuring delivery excellence.
More About The Role
- The role will be both hands‑on delivery & line management of 2+ Delivery Managers & oversight of those initiatives.
- Through partnering with multiple cross‑functional teams in Data & Tech and stakeholders across the business, own the delivery of new data products and complex changes in an agile environment.
- Tailor delivery approaches and methodologies, whilst setting up governance frameworks that are appropriate for the outcomes being delivered.
- Build and maintain underpinned plans, including deployments and rollout schedules.
- Manage stakeholders and define RACIs to ensure proper ownership of artefacts, decisions, and deliverables.
- Identify, anticipate, manage and communicate key risks, issues and dependencies, removing blockers for teams.
- Work collaboratively with Engineering, Product and other Delivery Managers to align on cross‑squad dependencies, surfacing and dealing with conflicting demands, escalating where necessary.
- Utilise strong influencing skills to drive decision making with teams, stakeholders and with the Tech leadership.
- Report progress against key milestones regularly to all stakeholders and into Tech governance forums.
- Conduct post‑implementation reviews to drive a culture of continuous improvement and proven value delivery, ensuring that learnings are fed through the wider Tech approach to delivery.
- Actively contribute to the Delivery Community of Practice.
More About You
- Extensive experience working as a Delivery/Programme Manager, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi‑team initiatives within a technical landscape bridging the gap between business strategy & engineering execution including:
- ETL/ELT & Data Pipeline knowledge
- Data Modelling & Architecture
- Data Quality & Governance
- Data observability
- Cloud data ecosystems
- Prior experience of managing a team of delivery professionals to create a high‑performing team.
- Proven experience in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall planning and successful delivery.
- Experience of working in a complex matrix organisation.
- Experience with managing compliance – Legal, regulatory, contractual, privacy, infosec, architecture.
- Highly proficient in status tracking and reporting, RAIDD, with experience of working with a company‑wide governance framework.
- Proven experience in managing key change delivery activities such as task planning, workforce planning, service transition, post‑implementation review, value delivery management.
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to analyse and solve problems logically.
- Bold, curious, and resilient. Comfortable with driving decision making, challenging assumptions and taking risks.
- Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships across the business working in an authentic way.
- Experience working with and managing 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
- Strong communication skills to convey key messages, tailoring your approach as required to different audiences.
- Participate in technical detail, showing an understanding of the technical landscape whilst describing technical choices and trade‑offs to stakeholders and leadership.
- Understanding of project/change budgets and how to manage them.
Essential Criteria
- Extensive experience as a Programme/Delivery Manager ideally in a Commercial/Supply Chain/Retail Tech domain, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi‑team data products within a technical landscape and matrix organisation.
- Highly proficient in building delivery plans, status tracking & reporting, RAIDD within Atlassian’s Jira Software and Jira Product Discovery products.
- Experience delivering change within a regulated & compliant technical landscape & into business operations – partnering with Legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, information security, architecture & service teams.
- Proven experience in managing technical & business stakeholders to deliver key change activities across multiple teams concurrently, such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post‑implementation review, value delivery management and project / change budgets.
- Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships with 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
- Certifications – at least one of the following:
- Project/Program management frameworks: PMBOK, APM, PRINCE2 or similar
- Agile PM, SAFe Release Train Engineer / SAFe Agilist or similar
Responsibilities
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work‑life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment…
Qualifications
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new – whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business – and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you’ll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We also have pensions scheme, life cover, performance‑related bonus up to 20% of salary, and more. Your wellbeing is important; you receive an annual holiday allowance, can buy additional holiday, have access to season ticket loans, interest free car loan up to £10k, cycle to work, health cash plan, pay advance, discounts, Employee Assistance Programme, private healthcare, maternity and paternity leave up to 26 weeks’ pay and 4 weeks’ pay respectively. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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