Senior Technical Delivery Manager

Here at Mindera, we are building a world-class team and would love for you to join us. As a Senior Delivery Manager with a strong technical background, you will lead and coordinate the delivery of software solutions, working closely with development teams, Tech Leads, clients, and business stakeholders. With a solid understanding of Agile methodologies and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), you will help teams turn business needs into realistic plans and successfully deliver solutions from initial requirements through to production. You will work closely with the team to estimate effort, define delivery plans, manage priorities, and ensure progress remains transparent and aligned with business expectations. You will proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers, facilitating decisions and negotiating scope when needed to balance business value, technical constraints, and delivery commitments. As a key point of contact for clients and business stakeholders, you will build strong relationships, manage expectations, and communicate clearly about progress, challenges, and potential trade-offs. Your ability to understand technical challenges, collaborate with engineers, and anticipate delivery risks will be essential to the team's success. At Mindera, we value empathy, self-organization, ownership, and a positive attitude. We believe successful delivery comes from trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement. If you enjoy empowering teams, solving problems, and creating alignment between technical and business perspectives, you'll feel right at home here. We also encourage the use of AI to support delivery management, planning, risk analysis, documentation, and related activities. We believe that sound judgment, problem-solving, collaboration, and accountability remain essential to successful delivery, with or without AI. During the interview process, our goal is to understand your delivery management knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and approach to delivering software successfully from planning through to production. If you plan to use AI during the interview process, please be transparent with us to avoid misunderstandings. Expected travelling time (UK and USA): 0%-15%, varies according to project/client. You will be working with teams across different time zones and locations. Requirements
- 8+ years of experience managing technical IT projects and supporting Agile engineering teams in enterprise environments.
- Proven experience driving end-to-end delivery, including planning, workload estimation, scope management, risk mitigation and dependency management.
- A strong technical background, with the ability to understand infrastructure, servers, virtual machines, high availability (HA), replication and disaster recovery concepts, including RPO and RTO.
- Familiarity with DevOps and infrastructure automation practices, including tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Proven ability to lead technical teams, resolve conflicts, remove impediments and drive projects towards successful delivery.
- Experience managing project risks, identifying delivery issues and developing recovery plans to bring projects back on track.
- Experience with Agile methodologies, Scrum, sprint planning and continuous improvement.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence and ServiceNow.
- Experience working with international stakeholders and distributed teams across multiple locations.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and reporting skills.
- A proactive, hands-on approach to delivery, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. What you will be doing:
- Drive the end-to-end delivery of technical projects within a DevSecOps environment, ensuring progress against agreed scope, timelines and objectives.
- Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, security and operations teams to understand technical requirements, dependencies and delivery constraints.
- Lead project planning, workload estimation, scheduling and scope management in collaboration with technical teams.
- Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, blockers and potential delays, ensuring timely mitigation and escalation when needed.
- Develop and drive recovery plans for projects that are falling behind schedule or at risk, ensuring clear actions, ownership and follow-up.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies and promote continuous improvement across the team.
- Coordinate priorities, manage conflicts and remove impediments to keep delivery moving forward.
- Ensure that infrastructure availability, resilience, disaster recovery and security requirements are considered throughout project delivery.
- Track progress, milestones, deliverables and dependencies, providing clear and transparent reporting tailored to different stakeholders.
- Coordinate cross-team activities and manage stakeholder expectations regarding timelines, scope, risks and delivery outcomes.
- Ensure that technical decision