Software Delivery Manager
15 days ago
Manchester
\n Context & Purpose of Role \n 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. \n \n The business are looking for a delivery-focused individual to own the operational cadence and administrative backbone of their end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). \n In this role, you will manage projects from business case and ideation through engineering build, commercial handover, and post-deployment monitoring. You will act as the operational connective tissue across our Product, Technology, and Engineering teams - keeping delivery honest, visible, and unblocked - from governance and reporting through to release management, freeing engineering leadership to focus on technical direction. \n Responsibilities: \n Delivery Management & SDLC Oversight \n\n • End-to-End Ownership: Track delivery across the entire SDLC-from initial ideation and business case through to technical build, post-release monitoring, and commercial handover.\n, • Roadmap Accuracy: Maintain a dynamic, accurate view of current delivery progress and upcoming engineering plans for leadership and wider business visibility.\n, • Team Commitments & Flow: Partner with engineering and product teams to help them meet commitments, clear blockers, and streamline cross-functional communication.\n, • Agile Operational Support: Provide hands-on administrative support for Scrum/Kanban frameworks, ensuring ticket hygiene, sprint ceremonies, and backlog prioritisation run smoothly.\n, • Release & Incident Coordination: Oversee release management schedules and support operational incident response workflows to ensure smooth rollouts and quick resolutions.\n\n \n \n Governance, Compliance & Financial Ops \n\n • QMS & SDLC Compliance: Support internal governance by ensuring processes align with Quality Management Systems (QMS) and relevant regulatory frameworks, escalate when they do not\n, • Operational Reporting: Own and maintain the engineering Risk Register, delivery metrics, capacity/utilisation tracking, and time-recording reporting.\n, • Financial Admin: Manage engineering-related financial reporting, Purchase Orders (POs), and vendor invoice reconciliation.\n\n \n Requirements: \n\n • Proven experience as a Project/Delivery Manager in a software development environment, covering the full SDLC\n, • Exposure to cloud environments, modern software applications, or SaaS product delivery\n, • Experience interacting with stakeholders across technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership\n, • Experience coordinating cross-functional teams with competing priorities and dependencies\n, • Experience using Agile delivery approaches such as Scrum or Kanban\n, • Ability to maintain accurate project plans, roadmaps, risks, actions and delivery reports\n, • Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences\n, • Experience working with project management, issue tracking and documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence\n\n \n Advantageous: \n\n • Experience in a regulated or clinical-safety environment (e.g. NHS, DCB0129/0160, healthtech)\n, • Experience with governance/QMS reporting (risk registers, audits, compliance documentation)\n\n