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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Delivery Lead - Enterprise Technology - **Company:** Schroders - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £83,582.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Data Infrastructure, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications, AI Coding Agents - **Published:** October 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5941241512 ## About the Role * Substantial experience leading delivery across multiple teams or streams in a technology function, with a track record of raising delivery standards. * A genuine coaching orientation - able to build capability in others and lead through influence, not just direction. * Credible hands-on delivery background - comfortable stepping into the detail of planning, facilitation and shipping when needed. * Strong command of modern delivery practice (Agile and Lean), applied pragmatically rather than dogmatically. * Proven ability to manage complexity, ambiguity and cross-team dependencies in a large or federated technology estate. * Confident establishing governance, reporting and delivery transparency for a leadership audience. * Strong stakeholder management and communication across technical and senior stakeholders. Desirable * Experience in enterprise platform, data platform or engineering-enablement environments. * Familiarity with agentic / AI-assisted software development and its implications for the delivery model. * Exposure to regulated financial services delivery and its governance expectations., * Action-oriented and pragmatic; optimises for outcomes and alignment over process. * Builds trust quickly and coaches with credibility. * Comfortable moving between function-level strategy and team-level detail. * Resilient and adaptable in a fast-changing engineering environment. ## Description The Delivery Lead is a coaching-style delivery role that consolidates the different delivery streams across the Enterprise Technology function into a single point of delivery accountability. The role exists to bring consistency, pace and quality to how the function delivers - by coaching teams, raising delivery practice to a common standard, getting hands-on where it adds most value, and holding end-to-end accountability for delivery outcomes across the function. The role also plays a direct part in the Superhighway programme, Schroders' agentic-development initiative, helping shape and land the way teams deliver in an increasingly agentic engineering environment. This is a leadership role that leads primarily through influence, coaching and delivery expertise rather than through direct line management alone. It suits someone who is equally comfortable shaping a delivery operating model at the function level and rolling their sleeves up inside a team when the situation calls for it. Key accountabilities 1. Coach teams and raise delivery to a common standard * Coach delivery teams across the function - including delivery leads, engineers and product/BA colleagues - to strengthen how they plan, prioritise, sequence and ship work. * Establish and embed a consistent, lightweight delivery standard across streams, so teams work to shared, well-understood practices without unnecessary process. * Identify where teams are below standard and bring them up through hands-on coaching, pairing and practical support rather than mandate. * Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning and openness to feedback across delivery teams. 2. Get hands-on in delivery where it adds most value * Step directly into delivery when a team needs it - unblocking, structuring the work, facilitating, or leading a critical piece through to completion. * Model good delivery practice by doing, so coaching is grounded in credibility and current practice. * Deploy hands-on effort deliberately and proportionately, keeping the focus on building lasting team capability rather than creating dependency. 3. Hold end-to-end accountability for delivery across the function * Act as the single point of accountability for delivery across the Enterprise Technology function, giving leadership a clear, consolidated view of delivery status, risk and progress. * Consolidate visibility across delivery streams - milestones, dependencies, risks and run-the-bank commitments - into a coherent picture that supports decision-making. * Establish and maintain the governance, reporting and decision-making mechanisms that keep delivery accountable, transparent and on track. * Manage complexity, ambiguity and cross-team dependencies, removing systemic obstacles so teams can deliver. * Ensure delivery is aligned to the function's strategy, priorities and value objectives. 4. Play a direct role in the Superhighway agentic-development programme * Contribute directly to the Superhighway programme, shaping and landing the delivery approach for agentic software development at Schroders. * Help teams adopt agentic ways of working safely and effectively, translating new engineering approaches into practical, governed delivery practice. * Ensure delivery practices scale and adapt as the engineering model evolves, keeping guardrails and standards fit for an agentic environment.