Delivery Lead (Contract)
Posted Today by Softwire
£650 Per day
Outside
Onsite
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Delivery Lead is responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of client projects within the Financial Services sector, focusing on portfolio management and prioritization of initiatives. This role involves collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure smooth project execution and a positive client experience. The position requires a hands-on approach, facilitating workshops and managing discussions while working in an agile environment. The role is based in London, requiring on-site presence at least three days a week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery of client projects across the full lifecycle, from inception to launch.
- Collaborate with Finance functions to manage and prioritize a portfolio of change initiatives.
- Facilitate workshops and discussions among stakeholders to drive decision-making.
- Maintain a steady delivery pace while ensuring team motivation and client satisfaction.
- Utilize agile methodologies and tools to manage project workflows effectively.
- Analyze and optimize processes to drive meaningful improvements.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
Key Skills:
- Experience as a delivery lead within Financial Services.
- Strong understanding of business change lifecycle, including people and process changes.
- Ability to manage competing initiatives and prioritize effectively.
- Experience in running product backlogs and collaborating with Product Owners.
- Familiarity with scaled agile approaches such as SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum at Scale.
- Problem-solving and risk management skills.
- Dedication to continuous improvement and team coaching.
- Interest in emerging technologies, particularly AI.
Salary (Rate): £650 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Delivery Lead - Outside IR35 - Contract (Insurance)
About the role
Delivery Leads are responsible for the successful delivery of our clients’ projects across the full lifecycle, from inception to launch and beyond. Typical project sizes range from 50 to 1,000 days, and our projects span multiple sectors and technologies. On this occasion, you’ll work alongside a client’s Finance function to make sense of their portfolio of change. You’ll help bring together the various Finance and CDO (Chief Data Officer) initiatives, build a shared view of the roadmap, and support the decisions on what order things should be delivered in – weighing each initiative on cost, ease, risk and value. This starts as a portfolio-shaping effort. Once the priorities are agreed, you’ll lead the delivery of that work, keeping it flowing and the team motivated, supported, and happy. Your job is to keep the delivery running smoothly and make sure the client has a positive experience throughout. You’ll work as part of a Softwire delivery team, alongside a Technical Lead, a Principal, and a Product Owner. A lot of this is about people. You’ll run workshops, facilitate decisions and manage discussions between stakeholders with competing demands – working in an agile-first way and keeping things moving at pace, while making sure everyone feels heard. This is a hands-on role, with tasks that will vary day to day, so you’ll need to take a pragmatic approach. It’s a London-based role, on-site at least three days a week, aligned with the wider team, split between our Softwire office and the client in Aldgate.
Your Experience
- Have experience as a delivery lead within Financial Services, including working with senior stakeholders, and have led work that spans the full business change lifecycle – not just the technology build, but the people, process, and organisational change needed to make it stick.
- Have worked alongside Finance functions and across complex data – understanding it well enough to make sense of competing initiatives, shape decisions, and bring order to a portfolio of change.
- Have helped clients bring competing initiatives into a single roadmap and prioritise them – weighing options on cost, ease, risk, and value to agree what gets done first.
- Have run a product backlog through to delivery, working closely with a Product Owner on definition and prioritisation, and kept the team delivering at a steady pace.
- Have planned and facilitated workshops to explore problem statements and reach decisions with the people in the room.
- Have worked in other delivery roles such as product ownership, consultancy or technical roles.
- Have experience in process analysis and optimisation, including techniques such as Value Stream Mapping to identify waste and drive meaningful improvements.
- Have worked across programmes involving multiple teams, using scaled agile approaches such as SAFe, LeSS, or Scrum at Scale, and am familiar with lean and agile tools and principles.
- Have a history of solving problems, managing risks, and overcoming challenges.
- Have worked in multidisciplinary teams, including directly with developers and designers.
- Show evidence of a dedication to continuous improvement – both supporting and coaching a team, and in your own ways of working.
Your Approach
- Are comfortable taking the initiative and working with ambiguity.
- Can communicate clearly, including explaining technical concepts to people from diverse backgrounds in a way that is meaningful to them.
- Are interested in and familiar with how software is built and delivered, including knowing when things are technically easy or difficult.
- Have an equal interest in how business change is run, so technology and change support each other.
- Are curious about emerging technologies, particularly AI, and bring a considered, practical view on how they can improve delivery outcomes.
- Understand the commercial dynamics of client engagements and can balance client outcomes with Softwire’s business interests.
£500-650 per day outside IR35
Start date: 06/07/2026
End date: 18/11/2026
About Softwire
Softwire is a leading UK technology and strategy consultancy. From enterprise to government, we help visionary organisations turn strategic ambitions into results at scale. Our practices cover AI transformation, data platforms, systems engineering advanced CX and experience design.