Senior Delivery Manager - UK Security Clearance eligibility required

Senior Delivery Manager - Appvia - UK Government Security Clearance eligibility required

Internal Title: Senior Delivery Manager

Location: London, UK (Hybrid - typically 1-2 days per week in office)

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

Package:  £60,000 - £80,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits (see more below)

About Us

Appvia is a specialist cloud, platform engineering, and AI enablement consultancy, helping organisations design, build, and operate modern cloud platforms at scale.

We work across public and private sector organisations, delivering outcomes in complex and highly regulated environments. Our focus is on enabling teams to improve delivery performance, adopt modern engineering practices, and build secure, scalable platforms that support long-term change.

Our work spans cloud migration, platform engineering, DevOps transformation, and developer enablement, combining strong engineering expertise with pragmatic delivery.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to lead the successful delivery of complex technology programmes across Appvia’s customer engagements. This role sits within our Delivery team, reporting into a Principal Delivery Manager, and working closely with engineering leadership and client stakeholders. You will be responsible for managing multi-team and multi-stream delivery, ensuring that programmes are delivered effectively while maintaining high standards across delivery, engineering, and stakeholder engagement.

This is not a passive delivery role. We are looking for someone who actively enables and protects delivery teams, removing blockers, managing complexity, and creating the conditions for engineers to succeed. You will operate as the “umbrella” for the team, taking ownership of delivery challenges rather than escalating them without resolution.

While deep platform engineering expertise is not required, you will need a strong technical foundation, with the ability and interest to engage with cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering concepts.

Interview process - 3 stage

• Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager
• Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager
• Leadership Final Interview

Important: As some of our public sector clients require Security Clearance, you will need to be eligible, meaning:

• British Citizen or ILR
• To have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years
• Have no criminal records
• Have no financial irregularities

About you

You are an experienced Delivery Manager with a strong track record of delivering complex technology programmes, particularly within regulated or public sector environments.

You are comfortable operating in technically complex environments and working closely with engineering teams, while maintaining a clear focus on delivery outcomes.

You will bring:

• Experience delivering complex, multi-team technical programmes (cloud, DevOps, or platform engineering environments)
• A strong understanding of Agile and DevOps delivery practices
• Experience in incident management, prioritisation, and operational delivery
• Ability to manage dependencies, risks, and delivery governance effectively
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior and executive-level stakeholders
• Experience working in public sector or similarly regulated environments
• A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to unblock and drive delivery forward

Key Responsibilities

Delivery Leadership

• Lead delivery across multi-team, multi-stream technology programmes
• Ensure delivery is structured, predictable, and aligned to agreed outcomes
• Actively identify, manage, and unblock delivery risks and dependencies
• Own incident management, prioritisation, and response coordination
• Support both development and operational (DevOps) aspects of delivery

Team Enablement

• Act as a delivery “umbrella” for engineering teams, protecting focus and removing friction
• Ensure teams are set up to succeed with clear priorities, context, and direction
• Avoid simply escalating issues - take ownership of driving resolution
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing delivery environment

Stakeholder Management & Governance

• Act as a key point of contact for client delivery and stakeholder communication
• Manage expectations, trade-offs, and conflicting priorities across stakeholders
• Establish and maintain delivery governance, reporting, and escalation frameworks
• Coordinate cross-team alignment and ensure consistent communication across workstreams

Data-Driven Delivery

• Define and track delivery metrics such as velocity, lead time, burn-down, and throughput
• Use data to assess delivery health, forecast outcomes, and inform decision-making
• Provide clear, evidence-based reporting to stakeholders

Continuous Improvement

• Drive improvements in delivery practices, processes, and ways of working
• Contribute to Appvia’s evolving delivery frameworks and operating models
• Support adoption of modern delivery approaches aligned with DevOps and platform engineering

Why join Appvia?

We are a self-funded, London-based consultancy, growing rapidly while staying true to what got us here: a human, engineering-led culture built on trust, ownership, and getting things done.

As we scale, we’re maturing as a business and expanding into new areas across platform engineering, software, data, and AI. We’re intentional about keeping our culture at the heart of it. We operate with a flat structure, agile ways of working, and a strong focus on collaboration, where good ideas come from anywhere and people are trusted to make an impact.

We work alongside our customers to solve complex, real-world problems: modernising systems, improving delivery, and building scalable platforms that enable long-term success.

If you want to be part of a team that values people as much as technology and gives you the space to grow while working on meaningful challenges, Appvia is the place to do it.

What’s on offer?

⚖️ Work-life balance

• Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work
• Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month
• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay
• Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents

💚 For your well-being

• Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%
• Death in Service
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free hygiene products available in the London office

🧠 Mental health support

• Free therapy through AXA
• Access to the Headspace App
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders

😃 Other fun perks

• Learning budget of £1,000 a year
• Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia
• Dog friendly office
• Wear what makes you comfortable
• Free snacks in the office
• Pool table & ping pong table
• Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more!

But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.

Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.