Software Delivery Manager

Salary: £45,000 - 45,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Project/Delivery Manager in a software development environment, covering the full SDLC
• Exposure to cloud environments, modern software applications, or SaaS product delivery
• Experience interacting with stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams with competing priorities and dependencies
• Experience using Agile delivery approaches such as Scrum or Kanban
• Ability to maintain accurate project plans, roadmaps, risks, actions and delivery reports
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working with project management, issue tracking and documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience in a regulated or clinical-safety environment (e.g. NHS, DCB0129/0160, healthtech)
• Experience with governance/QMS reporting (risk registers, audits, compliance documentation)

Responsibilities:

• Track delivery across the entire SDLC, from initial ideation and business case through to technical build, post-release monitoring, and commercial handover
• Maintain a dynamic, accurate view of current delivery progress and upcoming engineering plans for leadership and wider business visibility
• Partner with engineering and product teams to help them meet commitments, clear blockers, and streamline cross-functional communication
• Provide hands-on administrative support for Scrum/Kanban frameworks, ensuring ticket hygiene, sprint ceremonies, and backlog prioritisation run smoothly
• Oversee release management schedules and support operational incident response workflows to ensure smooth rollouts and quick resolutions
• Support internal governance by ensuring processes align with Quality Management Systems (QMS) and relevant regulatory frameworks, escalating when they do not
• Own and maintain the engineering Risk Register, delivery metrics, capacity/utilisation tracking, and time-recording reporting
• Manage engineering-related financial reporting, Purchase Orders (POs), and vendor invoice reconciliation

Technologies:

• Backbone
• Cloud
• Confluence
• Support
• JIRA
• Kanban
• Flow

More:

Our client is a UK digital health company that provides a health management app designed to help people access and manage their healthcare information in one place. This role is delivery-focused and will own the operational cadence and administrative backbone of the end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). You will act as the operational connective tissue across our Product, Technology, and Engineering teams, keeping delivery visible and unblocked through governance, reporting, and release management while freeing engineering leadership to focus on technical direction.

last updated 39 week of 2026