Data Delivery Manager

Contract Delivery Manager – Global Data Strategy

📍 Location: London / Hybrid

💼 Contract: 6 months+

💰 Rate: c£400 per day

Are you an experienced Delivery Manager with a strong background in data initiatives and technical delivery

We’re looking for a Contract Data Delivery Manager to join a Global Data Strategy function, helping multiple engineering teams deliver high-quality data products, programmes and projects aligned to strategic business objectives.

This is an opportunity to step into a complex data environment and make an immediate impact — bringing teams together, managing dependencies, removing blockers and ensuring strategic data initiatives are delivered successfully.

🔹 The Role

You'll work at the intersection of Data, Product, Engineering and Transformation, coordinating delivery across multiple teams and ensuring everyone is aligned around common outcomes.

You'll be responsible for:

• Coordinating delivery across multiple engineering and cross-functional teams

• Delivering data initiatives across programmes, projects and/or data products

• Managing complex dependencies, blockers, risks and competing priorities

• Facilitating cross-team planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and roadmap sessions

• Building consensus and influencing stakeholders without direct authority

• Partnering with Product Managers and Product Owners on roadmap and release planning

• Translating product and data strategy into clear, actionable delivery plans

• Working with Engineering Managers to improve ways of working and delivery effectiveness

• Tracking delivery health, KPIs and progress against strategic objectives

• Identifying and implementing improvements to delivery processes and workflows

• Driving continuous improvement across the wider Data organisation

• Ensuring technical delivery remains aligned with broader business and product objectives

🔹 What we're looking for

We're looking for an experienced Delivery Manager / Technical Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering complex initiatives within a data and technology environment.

You'll ideally have:

✅ Proven experience delivering data initiatives, including programmes, projects and/or data products

✅ Strong experience working with Data, Engineering and Product teams

✅ Experience managing complex, multi-team technology and data deliveries

✅ Strong understanding of data platforms and data engineering environments

✅ Experience working with Data Lakes

✅ Databricks experience is a big advantage!

✅ Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills

✅ Experience with Agile, Scrum and Lean delivery practices

✅ Strong ability to manage dependencies, risks and competing priorities

✅ Experience influencing and building consensus without direct authority

✅ Good understanding of the software development lifecycle

✅ A structured, analytical and outcome-focused approach to delivery

✅ Experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps or Linear

Experience with OKRs, roadmap planning, strategic transformation or delivery maturity/process improvement would also be highly beneficial.

🌟 Why this contract?

You'll be joining a global data organisation and working across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Quality Assurance and Transformation to deliver strategically important data products and initiatives.

You'll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact on delivery performance, ways of working and the successful execution of the data roadmap.

If you're a Delivery Manager with hands-on experience delivering data programmes, projects or products, understand modern data platforms and Data Lakes, and are comfortable operating across multiple engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you.

📩 Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation about the contract.

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