Engineering Programme Delivery Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026. London Stock Exchange scores A on the Alion truth index.
Join our team as an Engineering Programme Delivery Lead, where you will play a crucial role in delivering a major technology programme that spans multiple engineering teams, products, and platforms. You will work closely with engineering and product leaders to turn programme objectives into coordinated, achievable delivery commitments. Your responsibilities will include establishing a credible programme plan, managing cross-team dependencies, building partnerships across functions, maintaining an evidence-based understanding of delivery progress and risks, and ensuring sustainable delivery and improvement. You will report to the Head of Portfolio & Business Management for Data Platforms and will need strong delivery discipline, collaborative leadership, and sound organisational judgement.
Missions
- Establish a credible programme plan grounded in the work, priorities and capacity of participating engineering teams.
- Identify and actively manage cross-team dependencies, sequencing and competing demands, working with engineering and product leaders to evaluate trade-offs.
- Build close partnerships across engineering, product and other functions, maintaining a shared understanding of progress, constraints and priorities.
Profil recherché
- Collaborative leadership and influence, building trusted partnerships with engineering and product leaders, constructively challenging decisions and driving collective problem-solving without direct authority- Executive-level communication and presence, with experience presenting complex delivery matters in high-stakes senior leadership forums and the credibility to engage at board level. You communicate concisely, defend evidence-based assessments, respond confidently to challenging questions and remain composed under pressure
- Strong integrated planning and dependency management, connecting programme objectives to team backlogs and understanding how competing commitments, capacity and sequencing affect delivery
- Sound organisational judgement, evaluating trade-offs between programme priorities and wider business needs, risks and constraints
- You know how to coordinate complex technology delivery across teams with different priorities and accountabilities - and how to maintain progress when plans and circumstances change
- Proven programme delivery experience across multiple engineering teams, products or platforms, with significant dependencies and distributed accountability
- Credibility with engineering teams, understanding software delivery well enough to engage with technical discussions, question assumptions and identify constraints without needing to be the technical expert
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, using data to understand delivery reality, challenge assumptions and drive practical resolution of issues
- Experience in financial services, market data or fintech
- Experience delivering technology transformation, platform modernisation or cloud migration programmes
- Familiarity with Agile or product-led engineering environments and delivery tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, GitLab or Asana