Technical Delivery manager

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education. Job Description: Technical Delivery Manager Location: London, UK Work Model: Full-time, onsite at customer location Role Type: Customer-facing delivery leadership role Role Summary We are looking for a Technical Delivery Manager to lead complex technology delivery for a strategic enterprise customer in London. This role requires a strong combination of hands-on technical understanding, delivery ownership, client management, Agile execution, and cross-functional leadership. The ideal candidate will manage end-to-end delivery across cloud, data, application modernization, AI-enabled engineering, and enterprise integration initiatives. The role is fully customer-facing and requires daily onsite collaboration with business, technology, product, architecture, and engineering stakeholders. Key Responsibilities Delivery Leadership Own end-to-end delivery across assigned programs, workstreams, releases, and sprint commitments. Drive planning, execution, risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication. Ensure delivery predictability across scope, schedule, quality, budget, and customer expectations. Manage delivery governance using Agile methodology, sprint ceremonies, release planning, retrospectives, and operational reporting. Maintain clear traceability of requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, UAT sign-offs, defects, and production readiness. Customer & Stakeholder Management Act as the primary onsite delivery interface for customer stakeholders. Build trusted relationships with business, product, technology, architecture, security, infrastructure, and operations teams. Translate business priorities into actionable delivery plans and technical execution roadmaps. Proactively communicate risks, blockers, trade-offs, and mitigation plans. Support executive-level reporting, steering committee updates, and escalation management. Identify growth opportunities and partner with internal team to build solution proposals Technical Oversight Provide technical leadership across cloud, data, application, integration, and DevOps workstreams. Work closely with architects, engineers, QA, DevOps, and data teams to validate technical design and delivery feasibility. Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, privacy, data residency, and operational standards. Review technical dependencies across applications, data pipelines, APIs, environments, and CI/CD processes. Drive production-readiness reviews, performance validation, monitoring, and support handover. Engineering & Agile Execution Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Manage delivery through tools such as JIRA and/or Azure DevOps. Ensure stories are well-defined, estimated, prioritized, and linked to business outcomes. Track velocity, capacity, defects, risks, dependencies, and release burn-down. Promote disciplined engineering practices, including code quality, peer review, automation, testing, and deployment controls. Data, Cloud & DevOps Delivery Manage delivery across modern data platforms and cloud-native environments. Coordinate data engineering, transformation, ingestion, analytics, and reporting workstreams. Oversee CI/CD pipeline execution, environment readiness, deployment planning, and release validation. Support operational readiness through monitoring, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement. Required Te…