Target Group

Technical Delivery Manager

Target Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cardiff • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £55,000 per year

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 & Tools
Agile project managementdata migration planningtesting strategy developmentproduct roadmapsdelivery backlogsKanban boardstechnical RAID logssoftware delivery lifecyclesDevOps practicesacceptance processes
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationconflict resolutionstakeholder managementtransparencycontinuous improvementfacilitationrelationship buildingmotivationownership