Senior IT Delivery Manager

The IT Delivery Manager will provide senior leadership and direction across multi-disciplinary IT delivery teams operating onshore, nearshore, and offshore, ensuring seamless, high-quality delivery across all locations. The role requires aligning the IT delivery model with customer objectives and evolving business strategies, driving consistency, efficiency, and measurable value through clear governance, performance management, and proactive stakeholder engagement. The role also ensures that IT services are reliable, scalable, and fully aligned to support the organisation's strategic outcomes by promoting operational excellence, strengthening delivery processes, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement., Strategic & Operational Leadership:

• Lead alignment between IT delivery and senior stakeholders, ensuring services meet strategic and contractual expectations.
• Drive cross-tower coordination, performance management, and operational resilience across onshore/nearshore/offshore teams.
• Identify and shape opportunities for service optimisation, innovation, and account growth.
• Identify and drive cost Optimisation

Technical Delivery & Modernisation:

• Maintain strong understanding of architecture, platforms, integrations, and technical environments.
• Guide improvements in reliability, security, availability, and efficiency through collaboration with architects and technical leads.
• Sponsor modernisation initiatives (cloud, automation, DevOps, digital enhancements) while ensuring governance and operational readiness.

Governance, Risk & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Own and manage IT governance, compliance, and risk frameworks, including the IT risk register.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leadership, providing clear communication and acting as SPOC for global delivery teams.
• Champion continuous improvement cycles, lessons learned, and service-quality enhancement programmes.

This role has direct line management responsibilities including:

• DevOps teams/Testing teams/Environments teams
• Application Management (AM) delivery teams
• Resourcing of delivery initiatives

Note: This role is UK-based and offers a remote working opportunity, with occasional UK domestic travel as required. The successful candidate should hold or be capable of obtaining SC clearance to work with UK public sector organisations.

• Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%
• Private medical cover
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• 25 days paid leave + National Holidays
• Flex benefits program

Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 70,000 employees and annual revenue of c. € 10 billion, operating in 67 countries under two brands - Atos for services and Eviden for products. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high-performance computing, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea) and listed on Euronext Paris. The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.