Delivery Manager – Data
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Delivery Manager leading Agile data projects within a strategic programme. Focusing on high-quality delivery, team empowerment, and stakeholder collaboration.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and motivate the delivery team, ensuring clear goals, strong teamwork, and effective delivery
- Champion Agile and Lean practices , promoting continuous improvement and Inspect & Adapt principles
- Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and issues to maintain delivery momentum
- Ensure appropriate governance, quality management, and value for money
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders, reporting clearly and setting expectations
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Data Engineers, QA, BA, Architecture, Platform, and supplier teams
- Guide teams through delivery lifecycle phases and support process optimisation
- Contribute to the Delivery Management Community of Practice
Requirements:
- Strong Agile delivery experience
- Proven track record delivering digital/data products in multi-disciplinary teams
- Excellent stakeholder and communication skills
- Experience managing budgets, suppliers, risks, and dependencies
- Strong planning, prioritisation, and problem-solving abilities
- Demonstrated ability to lead and build high-performing teams
- Experience in the UK public sector or working with government digital standards
- Exposure to data platforms, analytics environments or data architecture
- Familiarity with UCD, DevOps, or cloud/infrastructure teams


















