Technical Delivery Manager
Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of complex technical initiatives across engineering teams. Drive delivery through structured planning, effective use of Jira, and strong stakeholder engagement. This position requires a blend of technical understanding, delivery leadership, and team management to ensure solutions are delivered efficiently, with clear accountability and visibility.
Your Role and Primary Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end delivery of technical projects and initiatives across multiple teams
- Drive planning, execution, and tracking of work using Jira
- Manage and maintain delivery backlogs, boards, workflows, and reporting structures
- Break down high-level requirements into actionable user stories and technical tasks
- Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure work is properly scoped
- Provide technical oversight and challenge where required
- Line manage team members including performance reviews and mentoring
- Act as the primary interface between technical teams and stakeholders
- Track and report delivery metrics (velocity, throughput, cycle time)
- Continuously improve delivery processes
- Ensure adherence to governance and reporting standards
Basic Qualifications
- Experience as a Technical Delivery Manager or similar role
- Strong Jira experience for planning and reporting
- Experience managing cross‑functional technical teams
- Technical background (DevOps, engineering, infrastructure)
- Understanding of software delivery lifecycle
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Confluence experience
- DevOps / CI‑CD / Azure exposure
- Agile framework familiarity
- Enterprise delivery experience
- Release management knowledge
- Experience with team management
Benefits
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
- Access to flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
- Flexi‑Time
Commitment to Non‑Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
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