Technical Delivery Manager
Target Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cardiff • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £55,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead cross‑functional Agile teams, promoting a collaborative delivery culture and high levels of ownership, motivation, and transparency.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies (stand‑ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions) and ensure they add value.
- Build strong relationships with client stakeholders, engineering leads, and product owners to ensure shared understanding of outcomes.
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of client ecosystems, data flows, and operational impacts of change.
- Communicate effectively in both business and technical language, tailoring content appropriately for different audiences.
- Manage expectations transparently, ensuring client confidence throughout delivery cycles. Provide transparent reporting on progress, risks, issues to stakeholders and steering groups.
- Define measurable success criteria and ensure quality through rigorous acceptance processes, testing oversight, and demo-based validation.
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure solutions are technically feasible, correctly estimated, and aligned to requirements.
- Own project financials, ensuring delivery within agreed budgets, burn rates, and benefit profiles.
- Work with Finance Partners and PMO to ensure accurate reporting, financial tracking, and forecasting.
- Identify commercial opportunities, contribute to bids, and ensure accurate project scoping for new client work.
- Ensure projects adhere to Target’s Delivery & Quality Frameworks while promoting iterative, lean, and automation‑first principles.
- Lead technical and operational readiness activities, including data migration planning, testing strategy development, and cutover coordination.
- Drive post‑implementation reviews, embedding lessons learned, improving delivery across the organisation.
- Champion continuous improvement and Agile maturity across teams.
Requirements
- Has demonstratable experience planning and managing Agile or hybrid projects involving technology, data, and operational change.
- Understands end‑to‑end delivery flows, including discovery, design, development, testing, migration, release, and stabilisation.
- Is able to create and manage product roadmaps, delivery backlogs, Kanban boards, and technical RAID logs.
- Tailors communication for engineers, business leaders, and client executives.
- Handles conflict constructively, enabling alignment and protecting client relationships.
- Confidently facilitates workshops, technical discussions, and Agile ceremonies with confidence.
- Uses modern planning tools effectively (MS Project, Jira, Kanban).
- Has experience managing system implementations, platform upgrades, SaaS/on‑prem migrations, or API/integration‑driven change.
- Understands software delivery lifecycles, testing approaches, and DevOps‑aligned practices.
- Ideally has knowledge of Financial Services, regulatory landscapes, and Target’s core markets such as Lending, Mortgages, Public Sector, or Investments.
- Keeps up‑to‑date on trends in Agile, DevOps, digital transformation, programme delivery and regulatory change.
Benefits
- 30 days holiday PLUS bank holidays *(That's right! 30 days from Day 1)*
- Defined Pension Contribution Scheme (Employer matched up to 6%)
- Employee Discount Scheme, access to discounts and offers across 100s of leading retailers.
- Company Paid Private Medical Insurance (benefit in kind)
- Group Life Assurance
- Group Income Protection
- Annual Pay Review
- Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
- Help@Hand – Confidential access to health and wellbeing support to include Employee Assistance Program
- Free Flu Vaccinations, Eye Tests and employer contribution towards glasses
- Recognition Scheme
- Free Mortgage Advice and Support
- Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
- Technology Buying Scheme (Salary Sacrifice)
- Critical Illness Cover
- Dental Insurance
- Gym Flex - discounted annual gym/health club memberships
- Taste Cards / Gourmet Cards
- RAC Breakdown Cover
- Charitable Payroll Giving
- Cycle to work Scheme (Salary Sacrifice)
- Health Cash Plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Agile project managementdata migration planningtesting strategy developmentproduct roadmapsdelivery backlogsKanban boardstechnical RAID logssoftware delivery lifecyclesDevOps practicesacceptance processes
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationconflict resolutionstakeholder managementtransparencycontinuous improvementfacilitationrelationship buildingmotivationownership