Programme Manager - Software Development/Engineering - Digital CMS | Agile
Posted 3 days ago by Lexstra Plc
£680 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Richmond upon Thames
Summary: The Programme Manager will oversee the end-to-end delivery assurance and benefits realization for a major Content Management System within a large-scale digital marketing platform. This role involves managing five cross-functional scrum teams, ensuring effective governance, and aligning delivery with strategic business outcomes. The position requires strong stakeholder management skills and a background in software development and agile methodologies. The role is based in Richmond, London, with a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own programme outcomes, translating strategic priorities into coherent roadmaps aligned to delivery capacity, OKRs, and rolling wave planning cycles
- Establish and operate programme governance including steering forums, RAID management, change control, and auditable reporting
- Manage high-priority cross-programme initiatives (eg Exhibitor Hub), coordinating across delivery managers, Product Owners, Engineering Tech Leads, BAs, UX, and QA
- Proactively identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and blockers; escalate decisively to senior stakeholders
- Oversee external offshore partners and suppliers, ensuring quality and delivery commitments are met
- Drive process improvement across delivery teams, standardising ways of working, tools, and governance compliance
- Ensure benefits and outcomes are tracked post-delivery and successfully transitioned into business-as-usual operations
Key Skills:
- Extensive programme management or senior delivery leadership experience within complex software development/software engineering/DevOps environments
- Proven experience managing multiple scrum teams simultaneously across multi-workstream programmes
- Strong digital programme delivery background, ideally involving CMS or marketing platforms
- Scaled Agile/SAFe knowledge beneficial; experience in hybrid or evolving delivery models at scale essential
- Advanced RAID, dependency, and financial management skills with a data-led, outcome-focused approach
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior/executive level
- Experience with offshore third-party partners highly desirable
- Formal programme/project management accreditation (eg MSP, PMP) advantageous
Salary (Rate): £680 per day
City: Richmond upon Thames
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Programme Manager - Software Development/Engineering - Digital CMS | Agile, with excellent stakeholder Management required by a large global firm.
You will lead end-to-end delivery assurance and benefits realisation across a major Content Management System (CMS) domain within a large-scale digital marketing platform. Overseeing five cross-functional scrum teams, you will ensure initiatives are governed effectively, risks and dependencies are actively managed, and delivery remains aligned to strategy and measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own programme outcomes, translating strategic priorities into coherent roadmaps aligned to delivery capacity, OKRs, and rolling wave planning cycles
- Establish and operate programme governance including steering forums, RAID management, change control, and auditable reporting
- Manage high-priority cross-programme initiatives (eg Exhibitor Hub), coordinating across delivery managers, Product Owners, Engineering Tech Leads, BAs, UX, and QA
- Proactively identify and resolve cross-team dependencies, risks, and blockers; escalate decisively to senior stakeholders
- Oversee external offshore partners and suppliers, ensuring quality and delivery commitments are met
- Drive process improvement across delivery teams, standardising ways of working, tools, and governance compliance
- Ensure benefits and outcomes are tracked post-delivery and successfully transitioned into business-as-usual operations
Requirements:
- Extensive programme management or senior delivery leadership experience within complex software development/software engineering/DevOps environments
- Proven experience managing multiple scrum teams simultaneously across multi-workstream programmes
- Strong digital programme delivery background, ideally involving CMS or marketing platforms
- Scaled Agile/SAFe knowledge beneficial; experience in hybrid or evolving delivery models at scale essential
- Advanced RAID, dependency, and financial management skills with a data-led, outcome-focused approach
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior/executive level
- Experience with offshore third-party partners highly desirable
- Formal programme/project management accreditation (eg MSP, PMP) advantageous
Location: Richmond, London (Hybrid - 1-2 days on-site)
Contract: 1 year, strong likelihood of extension