Technical Delivery Lead, Business Applications
London, City
Circa £90k plus bonus and excellent package


A leading financial services organisation in the City of London is recruiting a Technical Delivery Lead to join its Business Applications function. This is a permanent position at AD level, reporting into the Head of Business Applications.
This is firmly an applications delivery role. The function builds and runs business-facing IT services across a Microsoft Stack including Dynamics 365, Microsoft Fabric and Azure Integration Services. The Delivery Lead will own end-to-end delivery across these platforms, working alongside development teams, product leads and business stakeholders to ensure applications are delivered to a high standard, on time and fit for purpose.
Agile is central to how this team operates. The right candidate will bring genuine Agile discipline, a structured approach to delivery, and ideally a Scrum Master certification or equivalent that demonstrates they have embedded these ways of working in practice, not just in theory.
The function is growing; this role brings structure and delivery discipline to a team operating at pace across multiple concurrent workstreams.


Responsibilities


*Own end-to-end delivery across business applications built on the Microsoft Stack
*Drive and embed Agile ways of working consistently across internal and external development pods
*Facilitate sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives to maintain predictable, well-structured delivery
*Maintain visibility of progress, risks and dependencies across all workstreams
*Provide delivery assurance: ensuring applications are complete, tested and fit for release
*Line manage the QA Lead and matrix manage delivery tasks for multiple team members
*Oversee external partner delivery performance against agreed standards
*Produce clear delivery reporting for business and governance forums
*Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes and ways of working


Required Experience and Skills


*Proven experience as a Technology Delivery Lead or Applications Delivery Lead, specifically within an applications environment
*Hands-on experience delivering on Microsoft Stack platforms: Dynamics 365, Microsoft Fabric and Azure Integration Services (non-negotiable)
*Strong, practised Agile delivery discipline; this team works in an Agile framework and expects its Delivery Lead to champion it
*Scrum Master certification or equivalent Agile qualification, ideally with evidence of applying it in a real delivery environment (strongly preferred)
*Experience working closely with application development teams, organising workloads and driving quality outcomes
*Competent with DevOps stack reporting and tooling
*Strong communication skills; comfortable engaging with business stakeholders at all levels
*Experience managing or overseeing external delivery partners


Desirable


*Experience in wealth management, financial services or a regulated environment
*Background in software development, giving a strong appreciation of what development teams need to deliver well
*Additional DevOps or Agile certifications


What’s on Offer


Salary: circa £90k plus excellent banking benefits and total comp.
City of London location
Assistant Director grade
Line management responsibility with scope to grow as the application portfolio expands
A technically interesting environment delivering across a modern, cloud-connected Microsoft Stack