Content, Broadcast and Platforms - Delivery Manager

Sky UK
London, UK
about 2 months ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Software Bug Management Cloud Computing Continuous Delivery Reliability Engineering Software Engineering Backend

Job description

CBP is responsible for strategy, delivery, support, software development and project management for the end-to-end engineering for producing live sports content, delivering TV channels and proven video on demand services including all backend management systems. We are responsible for Production, Channel Origination, Distribution, Content Supply Chain, Cloud and SRE for our internal stakeholders at Sky across UK, ROI, Germany, Austria and Italy. Our stakeholders include Sky Sports, Sky News, Entertainment, Sky Creative, Q, Now and Glass.

As a CBP Delivery Manager, you will be required to help deliver and promote the Domain strategy for continuous delivery and improvement of production workflows and systems

This role will help establish a product culture and mindset as well as driving implementation of new practices to ultimately improve efficiencies across our offerings.

You will assist with cost & capacity tracking across multi-disciplinary teams to facilitate accountability within the delivery teams, ensuring rate cards follow delivery templates to take products to market more efficiently

This Role reports to the Head of Delivery within Strategy, Product and Delivery.

What you’ll do

  • Ensure Domain delivery transparency - Ensure that roadmaps, dependencies and progress are fully understood and communicated across the organisation updating all stakeholders on upcoming feature releases

  • Drive data-driven delivery - Define and track meaningful KPIs across performance, cost, and team capacity, using insights to help identify areas of improvement for capabilities and upcoming risks

  • Technical Delivery Accountability - ensure the timely delivery, and reporting of new features, improvements and bug fixes, by aligning delivery resources across multiple teams within the organisation

  • Embed governance and cost accountability - Track and align delivery costs, including supplier orders, internal recharge, and resource overheads on a feature basis to identify opportunities for performance improvements and optimisations within our ecosystems and ensure continuous policy alignment

  • Engage and influence stakeholders - Advise Stakeholder and leadership teams on delivery status, timelines and impediments on a proposition basis to ensure the Product Lead and business stakeholders can choose the propositions based on value

  • Partner across teams - Work closely with the Domain Product Leads, collaborating on prioritisation of Product roadmaps & known dependencies, supporting the further establishment of a culture of product & value driven delivery across CT&I

  • Challenge the status quo - strive to unlock new value and increase the flow of delivery across organisation, promoting team successes and challenge things that could have been done better.

Requirements

  • Proven experience delivering products and projects within large enterprise environments, using Agile and project management methodologies.

  • Strong product mindset with extensive knowledge of the end-to-end product delivery lifecycle, processes, and artefacts.

  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence both technical and business teams.

  • Demonstrated success in business case development, value realisation, continuous improvement, and KPI-driven delivery outcomes.

  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex information to diverse audiences.

  • Solid understanding of content delivery operations and technical workflows, combined with a passion for continuous learning, innovation, and adoption of new technologies.

Preferred skills

  • Exposure to both On-Premise and Cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure) based infrastructure environments and deployment patterns
  • A keen Interest in sports production and live content delivery

Benefits & conditions

There’s one thing people can’t stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

  • Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema

  • Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution

  • Private healthcare with mental health support

  • Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance

  • Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect

  • Sharesave and Tech schemes

  • A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work

We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 2 days in the office per week.

Your office base

Osterley

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers. On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

About the company

Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, Sky Stream to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. And we do it all right here at Sky., We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.

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