Delivery Manager (Data)

The Delivery Manager is responsible for coordinating the successful delivery of OCU Digital’s engineering and platform projects, ensuring work is planned, prioritised and delivered efficiently. Working closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, Platform Managers and Digital Technology teams, they manage delivery plans, cross-team dependencies, risks and stakeholder communication to keep projects on track. They drive planning and reporting, promote delivery standards such as Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD), and ensure changes are implemented safely and effectively. By identifying risks early, improving delivery processes and fostering collaboration, the Delivery Manager helps OCU deliver high-quality digital products and services consistently and efficiently., * Coordinate the end-to-end delivery of digital engineering and platform projects, ensuring work is prioritised, planned and delivered against agreed timelines.

• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks and resource challenges, working with Product Owners, Engineering Managers and stakeholders to maintain delivery momentum.
• Lead delivery ceremonies, maintain project plans, RAID logs and reporting, and provide clear updates on progress, risks and key decisions.
• Promote delivery best practices, ensuring adherence to governance, Definition of Ready (DoR), Definition of Done (DoD), change control and quality standards.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance delivery processes, improve collaboration and support the development of delivery capability across OCU Digital.

• Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master or similar within a digital, software or technology environment, with a strong understanding of Agile, Scrum and Kanban delivery frameworks.
• Demonstrable experience managing cross-team dependencies, delivery risks, issues and trade-offs, with excellent planning, organisational and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficient in using delivery tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira or similar to manage workflows, track progress and produce delivery reporting.
• Strong communicator, able to engage effectively with engineers, product teams, service teams and senior stakeholders, while taking ownership and accountability for successful delivery outcomes.

• Experience driving continuous improvement across delivery practices, governance and tooling, with the ability to support sprint, release and increment planning.

• Experience delivering data platform, integration or large-scale digital programmes, particularly working alongside Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Scientists.
• Knowledge of service management, reliability, observability, SRE, DevOps and QA practices, ensuring smooth delivery into live environments.
• Agile or project delivery certification (e.g. Scrum Master, AgilePM or PRINCE2) and experience coaching or mentoring other delivery professionals.

About OCU Group

At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life. As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.

Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.

We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.

At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it. Our Culture & Values

At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United. Our Commitment to Inclusion

At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported. As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role. To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing recruitment@ocugroup.com.