DU Head
Licensed sponsor United Kingdom Posted 1 week ago
Job Summary
Delivery Lead / Head
Job Description
- Lead and manage large-scale delivery programs with a minimum portfolio size of €150M+ and a team size of 2000+ professionals.
- Drive end-to-end delivery across Agile methodologies (SCRUM, Spotify, Kanban, Story Points).
- Manage diverse delivery models including Fixed Price, Time & Material (T&M), Outcome-based, and Managed Services.
- Ensure delivery readiness by identifying, onboarding, and mentoring talent (individuals and squads).
- Resolve delivery impediments with a hands-on, solution-oriented approach.
Solutioning and Technology Leadership
- Engage in customer conversations to conceptualize solutions, architectures, and delivery plans.
- Stay abreast of digital trends such as SRE, automation testing, predictive analytics, AI, and DevOps.
- Provide technical leadership across backend, frontend, data, and DevOps stacks.
People Management
- Foster a servant leadership culture, ensuring team integration with both HCL and customer environments.
- Drive career development, mentoring, and upskilling initiatives.
- Lead integration efforts for onsite teams with parent organization through townhalls, sprint meetings, and training.
- Collaborate with local agencies and universities for future talent acquisition and enablement.
Operational and Financial Management
- Own and manage P&L including revenue, margin, ARC, and utilization metrics.
- Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for managing sales, delivery, and stakeholder relationships.
- Manage delivery teams of 200+ FTEs across onsite and offshore locations with revenue responsibility of €15–20M.
Customer and Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead customer and team communications, ensuring alignment with Agile governance and delivery progress.
- Proactively manage impediments and provide actionable solutions.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Required
- 17–25 years of experience in IT delivery leadership roles.
- Proven track record in managing large Agile delivery programs.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in managing delivery across multiple commercial models (Fixed Price, T&M, etc.).
- Hands-on experience in solutioning across backend, frontend, data, and DevOps technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large-scale delivery units (€150M+ portfolio, 2000+ team size).
- Experience in Agile transformation using SCRUM, Spotify, Kanban, and Story Points.
- Strong financial acumen with P&L ownership experience.
Preferred
- Experience in building and scaling start-up teams within enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated ownership of outcomes and delivery in FPP mode, not just governance oversight.
- Real strength in fulfilment, and how they build and close the pipeline of the right talent.
- Experience in integrating distributed teams and fostering a unified organizational culture.
- Delivery excellence initiatives they have personally driven, and what they did differently
- The ability to manage the customer with a solution, not just a status report.
- Strategic thinking that can visualise and drive account growth.
- A genuine belief in training and growing engineers, and the ability to articulate how they do it.
Other Requirements
- Strong focus on team empowerment and growth.
- Familiarity with digital transformation trends such as SRE, automation testing, AI, and predictive analytics.
- Having banking domain knowledge will be an added advantage
- Experience in Agile governance and delivery measurement frameworks.
- Willingness to take full accountability for delivery outcomes, team performance, and customer satisfaction
Key Responsibilities
Delivery Lead / Head
Job Description
- Lead and manage large-scale delivery programs with a minimum portfolio size of €150M+ and a team size of 2000+ professionals.
- Drive end-to-end delivery across Agile methodologies (SCRUM, Spotify, Kanban, Story Points).
- Manage diverse delivery models including Fixed Price, Time & Material (T&M), Outcome-based, and Managed Services.
- Ensure delivery readiness by identifying, onboarding, and mentoring talent (individuals and squads).
- Resolve delivery impediments with a hands-on, solution-oriented approach.
Solutioning and Technology Leadership
- Engage in customer conversations to conceptualize solutions, architectures, and delivery plans.
- Stay abreast of digital trends such as SRE, automation testing, predictive analytics, AI, and DevOps.
- Provide technical leadership across backend, frontend, data, and DevOps stacks.
People Management
- Foster a servant leadership culture, ensuring team integration with both HCL and customer environments.
- Drive career development, mentoring, and upskilling initiatives.
- Lead integration efforts for onsite teams with parent organization through townhalls, sprint meetings, and training.
- Collaborate with local agencies and universities for future talent acquisition and enablement.
Operational and Financial Management
- Own and manage P&L including revenue, margin, ARC, and utilization metrics.
- Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for managing sales, delivery, and stakeholder relationships.
- Manage delivery teams of 200+ FTEs across onsite and offshore locations with revenue responsibility of €15–20M.
Customer and Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead customer and team communications, ensuring alignment with Agile governance and delivery progress.
- Proactively manage impediments and provide actionable solutions.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Required
- 17–25 years of experience in IT delivery leadership roles.
- Proven track record in managing large Agile delivery programs.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in managing delivery across multiple commercial models (Fixed Price, T&M, etc.).
- Hands-on experience in solutioning across backend, frontend, data, and DevOps technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to manage large-scale delivery units (€150M+ portfolio, 2000+ team size).
- Experience in Agile transformation using SCRUM, Spotify, Kanban, and Story Points.
- Strong financial acumen with P&L ownership experience.
Preferred
- Experience in building and scaling start-up teams within enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated ownership of outcomes and delivery in FPP mode, not just governance oversight.
- Real strength in fulfilment, and how they build and close the pipeline of the right talent.
- Experience in integrating distributed teams and fostering a unified organizational culture.
- Delivery excellence initiatives they have personally driven, and what they did differently
- The ability to manage the customer with a solution, not just a status report.
- Strategic thinking that can visualise and drive account growth.
- A genuine belief in training and growing engineers, and the ability to articulate how they do it.
Other Requirements
- Strong focus on team empowerment and growth.
- Familiarity with digital transformation trends such as SRE, automation testing, AI, and predictive analytics.
- Having banking domain knowledge will be an added advantage
- Experience in Agile governance and delivery measurement frameworks.
- Willingness to take full accountability for delivery outcomes, team performance, and customer satisfaction
