Delivery Lead

About the role

The Delivery Lead is responsible for orchestrating and enabling the successful delivery of complex technical change across one or more agile squads, ensuring alignment with business priorities, governance standards, and organisational outcomes. The role provides coordination, governance, and integration across teams while preserving agile ways of working. Key areas of accountability & outcomes for this role include: Leading and managing change initiatives across business areas and projects in a delivery lead capacity, utilising core PM and BA skills. Driving delivery outcomes from initiation to completion, without reliance on a separate Project Manager. Shaping and prioritising work in partnership with stakeholders and Product Owners. Developing and maintaining integrated delivery plans, including dependencies and milestones. Coordinating cross-squad activity and manage delivery interdependencies. Partnering with stakeholders to embed change into business processes and operations. RAID management - Managing risks, issues, and quality across all initiatives. Governance and reporting to leadership and governance forums. Stakeholder management, alignment and coordination. Cross-squad dependency and risk management. Supporting agile methodologies and adapting frameworks to project needs. Agile delivery enablement alongside Scrum Masters and Product Owners. Planning and execution readiness. Integrated delivery plans and milestone tracking. Elicit and document business requirements and process improvements, as defined by the business and/or project. Ensure requirements are clearly defined and owned. Work with BAs / SMEs to shape and validate requirements. Lead and facilitate meetings and workshops, producing clear documentation, including Business Requirement Documents, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Analyse complex and large-scale business and technical projects, including comprehensive reviews of end- to-end data and operating models. Support business users through UAT testing and obtain sign-off from key stakeholders. There are some essential requirements of the role. The role holder will have: Candidates must have demonstrable experience initiating, planning, and delivering formal projects, ideally with budgets up to £5m Minimum 5 years' experience in a delivery lead or project management role in Financial services Minimum 2 years' Delivery experience in Corporate projects - Risk, Legal, HR, Audit where the candidate owned and delivered end-to-end projects Successfully delivered complex change projects requiring changes to Corporate systems, ideally finance systems (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Service Now) Accreditation (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP, Agile PM) Practical knowledge of agile methodologies and tools. Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills are required. Extensive experience in facilitating meetings and workshops. Expertise in eliciting, analysing, validating requirements, and building partnerships with business and technology teams. Demonstrate strong application and solution knowledge. Demonstrated expertise in business analysis and managing change initiatives within complex organisations. Proven ability to gather and validate detailed business requirements and lead process improvements. Experience coordinating stakeholders, managing risks, and delivering projects using agile and hybrid methodologies. Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage leadership, teams, and third-party suppliers effectively. Commitment to co