Head of Delivery - Software

Head of Delivery - Software

Key points

• 12/08/26
• London, Slough
• £900 - 1,000 per day
• Contract
• Senior IT Appointments
• Full time

Job role

Interim Director of Technology Delivery — 6 Month Contract
£900–£1,000 per day | Manchester, Leeds or Thames Valley (3 days on-site) | Inside IR35

Confidential search.

Based from whichever of Manchester, Leeds or Thames Valley suits you, with a 3 days/week on-site expectation at that hub.

THE BUSINESS

A UK-listed services organisation with a substantial internal technology function is bringing in an experienced interim leader to accelerate a period of change across its engineering and delivery organisation. This is a business with an established, well-resourced technology team looking to modernise how it builds and ships - not a start-from-scratch environment.

THE ROLE

You’ll take operational ownership of how technology gets delivered across a multi-disciplinary engineering organisation - spanning platform, infrastructure and application teams — during a defined period of change.

Core focus areas:

• Reshaping how engineering, architecture and product functions work together day to day, moving the organisation toward faster, more autonomous ways of working
• Raising the bar on engineering practice — automation, release discipline, quality and observability - across a sizeable in-house team
• Acting as a credible senior voice into the leadership team on technology delivery, translating between commercial priorities and engineering reality
• Building capability within the existing team so improvements outlast the interim period — this is a hands‑on leadership brief, not an advisory one
• Getting proper visibility and control over cost and risk as cloud usage scales, and using that to inform how the function is shaped going forward
• Bringing structure and pace to a team that has the technical depth but needs stronger delivery discipline layered in

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• A strong track record leading engineering or delivery functions at senior/director level within a sizeable, complex organisation - 10+ years in technology, with real seniority in the last several
• Genuine hands‑on credibility in modern engineering practice: cloud platforms, automated delivery pipelines, and the operating models that go with scaled distributed teams
• Experience leading through a period of organisational or operating‑model change, not just running steady‑state delivery
• Comfortable operating in a regulated or high‑governance environment, and confident holding your own with senior stakeholders outside the technology function
• Available now or at very short notice, for an initial 6‑month term with realistic potential to extend or move to permanent.

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