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Tell us what you did, and one thing you learnt.\"\nAbout us\nSchroders is a global investment manager which provides active asset management, wealth management and investment solutions. We aim to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. We serve a diverse client base that includes pension schemes, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, family offices, as well as end clients through partnerships with distributors, financial advisers, and online platforms.\nEstablished in 1804, we have around 5,500 people across 36 global locations. Schroders' success can be attributed to its diversified business model, spanning different asset classes, client types and geographies.\nRole purpose\nThe Delivery Lead is a coaching-style delivery role that consolidates the different delivery streams across the Enterprise Technology function into a single point of delivery accountability. The role exists to bring consistency, pace and quality to how the function delivers - by coaching teams, raising delivery practice to a common standard, getting hands-on where it adds most value, and holding end-to-end accountability for delivery outcomes across the function.\nThe role also plays a direct part in the Superhighway programme, Schroders' agentic-development initiative, helping shape and land the way teams deliver in an increasingly agentic engineering environment.\nThis is a leadership role that leads primarily through influence, coaching and delivery expertise rather than through direct line management alone. It suits someone who is equally comfortable shaping a delivery operating model at the function level and rolling their sleeves up inside a team when the situation calls for it.\nKey accountabilities\n1. Coach teams and raise delivery to a common standard\nCoach delivery teams across the function - including delivery leads, engineers and product/BA colleagues - to strengthen how they plan, prioritise, sequence and ship work.\nEstablish and embed a consistent, lightweight delivery standard across streams, so teams work to shared, well-understood practices without unnecessary process.\nIdentify where teams are below standard and bring them up through hands-on coaching, pairing and practical support rather than mandate.\nFoster a culture of continuous improvement, learning and openness to feedback across delivery teams.\n2. Get hands-on in delivery where it adds most value\nStep directly into delivery when a team needs it - unblocking, structuring the work, facilitating, or leading a critical piece through to completion.\nModel good delivery practice by doing, so coaching is grounded in credibility and current practice.\nDeploy hands-on effort deliberately and proportionately, keeping the focus on building lasting team capability rather than creating dependency.\n3. Hold end-to-end accountability for delivery across the function\nAct as the single point of accountability for delivery across the Enterprise Technology function, giving leadership a clear, consolidated view of delivery status, risk and progress.\nConsolidate visibility across delivery streams - milestones, dependencies, risks and run-the-bank commitments - into a coherent picture that supports decision-making.\nEstablish and maintain the governance, reporting and decision-making mechanisms that keep delivery accountable, transparent and on track.\nManage complexity, ambiguity and cross-team dependencies, removing systemic obstacles so teams can deliver.\nEnsure delivery is aligned to the function's strategy, priorities and value objectives.\n4. Play a direct role in the Superhighway agentic-development programme\nContribute directly to the Superhighway programme, shaping and landing the delivery approach for agentic software development at Schroders.\nHelp teams adopt agentic ways of working safely and effectively, translating new engineering approaches into practical, governed delivery practice.\nEnsure delivery practices scale and adapt as the engineering model evolves, keeping guardrails and standards fit for an agentic environment.\n\nExperience, knowledge and attributes\nEssential\nSubstantial experience leading delivery across multiple teams or streams in a technology function, with a track record of raising delivery standards.\nA genuine coaching orientation - able to build capability in others and lead through influence, not just direction.\nCredible hands-on delivery background - comfortable stepping into the detail of planning, facilitation and shipping when needed.\nStrong command of modern delivery practice (Agile and Lean), applied pragmatically rather than dogmatically.\nProven ability to manage complexity, ambiguity and cross-team dependencies in a large or federated technology estate.\nConfident establishing governance, reporting and delivery transparency for a leadership audience.\nStrong stakeholder management and communication across technical and senior stakeholders.\nDesirable\nExperience in enterprise platform, data platform or engineering-enablement environments.\nFamiliarity with agentic / AI-assisted software development and its implications for the delivery model.\nExposure to regulated financial services delivery and its governance expectations.\nAttributes\nAction-oriented and pragmatic; optimises for outcomes and alignment over process.\nBuilds trust quickly and coaches with credibility.\nComfortable moving between function-level strategy and team-level detail.\nResilient and adaptable in a fast-changing engineering environment.\nWhat success looks like\nDelivery streams across the function work to a consistent, well-understood standard, with teams visibly more capable over time.\nLeadership has a single, trusted view of delivery status, risk and progress across the function.\nTeams that were below standard are measurably stronger, with dependency less on the role holder over time.\nDelivery keeps pace as the function adopts agentic engineering practices, with guardrails and standards that scale.\nThe delivery operating model adapts as the function and its technology evolve.\nWe Recognise Potential, Whoever You Are\nOur purpose is to deliver excellent investment performance to clients through active management. We believe diverse perspectives and an inclusive culture help us make better decisions and achieve better outcomes for our clients. That's why inclusion is a strategic priority for us, and we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.\nWe will consider flexible working arrangements for all roles and provide reasonable accommodations to support applicants and employees, including those with neurodiversity, disability, or physical and mental health needs. 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