Delivery Lead

Role responsibilities

• Establish and manage the delivery approach, including plans, roadmaps, ceremonies, RAID and reporting.
• Lead Front End development, user-centred design and website delivery across discovery, Alpha and beta.
• Coordinate the migration of content from two existing sites into one platform, including dependencies and cutover planning.
• Work with the Product Owner to manage priorities, scope and release plans.
• Coordinate designers, researchers, developers, content specialists and other delivery professionals.
• Maintain alignment between senior stakeholders across both organisations.
• Identify and resolve delivery risks, blockers and cross-team dependencies.
• Support a controlled launch and transition into ongoing service delivery.

Key experience and requirements

• Delivery Lead or Delivery Manager experience within UK government digital programmes.
• Strong knowledge of GDS ways of working and experience delivering through discovery, Alpha, beta and live.
• Experience leading website development or transformation projects involving Front End development and UCD.
• Experience delivering content migration, information architecture or platform-consolidation initiatives.
• Confidence facilitating agile ceremonies and coordinating multidisciplinary, predominantly remote teams.
• Strong senior stakeholder management across multiple organisations or delivery partners.
• Experience delivering intranets, internal communications platforms or similar content-led services would be beneficial.
• Previous health or wider public-sector delivery experience would be advantageous.