Technical Delivery Lead, Two Circles

• Proven experience leading complex technical programmes or projects
• Comfortable working with solution architects, lead engineers, and cross-discipline teams
• Strong technical literacy across cloud (especially Microsoft/Azure), Solution/enterprise architecture and Content driven digital experiences and supporting capabilities
• Skilled in identifying and managing critical paths and cross-team dependencies
• Solid understanding of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methodologies
• Ability to operate in high-paced environments and bring clarity where there is ambiguity
• Experience with operational readiness, release management, or go-live planning
• Experience working with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet

Desirable

• The Technical Delivery Lead role sits within our rapidly expanding Delivery team. It’s a fantastic opportunity for a highly technical, hands-on delivery leader to help drive the success of a major programme at Two Circles
• The Technical Delivery Lead is responsible for the end-to-end technical coordination and execution of a complex technology programme. You will work across multiple workstreams to ensure operational readiness, build and execute the go-live plan, and stitch together technical dependencies to ensure delivery is aligned and progressing
• You will work closely with solution architects, engineers, and technical leads—helping identify critical paths and unblocking progress. You are technically confident, delivery-minded, and capable of translating strategy into action
• You’ll also partner with the programmes’s Enterprise Architecture stream, ensuring strategic alignment and delivery cohesion, especially as the programme moves into its final stages
• You have strong consultancy and client-facing skills, with the ability to communicate technical detail clearly, manage stakeholder expectations, and build trusted relationships across client and internal teams
• Lead the execution of the technical delivery plan, ensuring visibility and accountability across engineering workstreams
• Build and drive the go-live plan, ensuring solutions, data, and teams are ready for launch
• Coordinate operational readiness efforts internally and externally, bringing together tech, data, content, marketing and product to support launch success
• Track and manage incoming technical requests from various vendors), ensuring they are appropriately integrated across relevant workstreams such as Digital Products, DWH, MarTech etc
• Collaborate closely with key technical workstreams (e.g. Enterprise Architecture, AI) to ensure alignment between design, implementation, and delivery
• Identify and manage critical paths, interdependencies, and risks across delivery teams
• Coordinate delivery planning activities such as delivery schedules, tracking notes, actions, and RAID logs
• Attend technical working group calls to monitor progress against technical delivery planning
• Ensure blockers are identified early, communicated clearly, and resolved quickly to keep delivery on track
• Coordinate across workstreams and testing teams to align release schedules with testing timelines, ensuring clear communication of key dates and environment constraints (e.g. avoiding Pre-Prod releases during load testing)
• Ensure visibility of monitoring and alerting across the the architecture, so potential points of failure are clearly understood and issues can be identified and resolved quickly
• Work across cross-functional teams including product, engineering, architecture, QA, and external partners
• Translate technical complexity into clear delivery language for non-technical stakeholders
• Serve as a key delivery point of contact for technical queries, dependencies, and progress tracking
• Provide regular progress updates to the Programme team and other senior stakeholders that sit in different capabilities