Senior Director, Delivery

Key responsibilities for the role

• Portfolio Delivery Leadership: Lead delivery across multiple programs, squads, and work streams, ensuring commitments are realistic, coordinated, and delivered predictably.
• Release Planning & Execution: Oversee integrated release planning and execution across squads, ensuring features progress smoothly through the SDLC.
• Program Governance: Govern larger initiatives spanning multiple squads, managing scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and benefits realisation.
• Delivery Flow & Dependency Management: Improve quality and throughput across squads by resolving blockers, managing cross-team dependencies, and enabling efficient flow from planning to production.
• Release & Environment Management: Lead the release management practice and environment governance, ensuring coordinated release calendars, deployment readiness, environment availability, and effective management of environment demand, conflicts, and dependencies.
• Governance, Reporting & Risk Control: Maintain clear delivery & program governance, forecasting, RAID management, and timely escalation of issues requiring decisions.
• Cross-Functional & Client Alignment: Partner with Product, Engineering, Quality, Operations, and client stakeholders to align priorities, capacity, practices, and delivery readiness.
• Resource & Commercial Management: Manage delivery capacity, budgets, and partner resources to ensure efficient utilisation and commercially sound outcomes.
• People Leadership & Continuous Improvement: Build a high-performing Delivery function and continuously improve planning discipline, release effectiveness, delivery cadence, and team capability.

Qualifications and experience

• 12+ years in software Program Management and/or technology delivery with 5 years of experience leading large and complex technology portfolios
• Proven track-record delivering enterprise-scale software, digital, or platform initiatives across multiple concurrent squads or streams
• Strong experience managing continuous delivery models with frequent releases, coordinated testing cycles, and production deployments
• Experience in Agile, hybrid, and structured delivery models, with sound judgement on fit-for-purpose governance…