Job Description
Senior Technical Delivery Manager
Location: National*
Closing Date: 15th February 2026
Interviews: Week commencing 2nd March 2026
Grade: G7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary:
National £58511 - £65329
London £63343 - £70725 ((including a potential allowance up to £1,145)
Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working,
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy Reference: 14399
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Senior Technical Delivery Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Data modelling & Engineering Team.
This role aligns against the Senior Delivery Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
The Data and Analytics Engineering Hub is at the heart of MoJ’s transformation into a truly data-driven department. Our Delivery Managers work with digital teams and external suppliers to help them make data from their services available on the Analytical Platform. They also work with internal users of the Analytical Platform to help shape requirements, strategies, and to deliver this work via Data and Analytics Engineers.
You will lead the delivery of data and analytics services, working closely with engineers, stakeholders, and users to shape strategies and deliver impactful outcomes. As part of a dynamic team, you’ll have opportunities for professional growth, including funded certifications and development programs.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary Delivery Manager lead, coordinating end-to-end delivery and acting as the go-to contact for delivery oversight and execution.
- Use tools such as GitHub Projects, Jira, Trello and others to capture requirements, plan work, allocate tasks, and enable communication across users, teams, and suppliers.
- Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders to set priorities, define clear outcomes, and drive efficient, standardised delivery practices.
- Lead the delivery of complex, high-risk digital products and services using agile and lean methods, maintaining momentum across teams and portfolios.
- Act as the primary point of accountability and escalation for delivery, proactively managing risks, dependencies, and blockers.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering teams and domain leads to plan, coordinate, and demonstrate the impact of data and analytics delivery.
- Use data, metrics, and insights to inform decision-making, improve delivery performance, and continuously mature delivery approaches.
- Build, maintain, and motivate multidisciplinary teams, creating an environment where teams are protected, focused, and effective.
- Coach and mentor delivery managers and team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.
- Promote and embed agile and lean ways of working, supporting teams to adopt appropriate tools and techniques.
- Lead cross-team alignment and organisational change through effective communication, workshops, events, and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to the wider delivery management community across Technology Services and Justice Digital, strengthening delivery capability and peer networks.
Benefits
- 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
- A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
- Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
- Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
- 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
- Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
- Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
- Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
- Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
- Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
- 5 days volunteering paid leave.
- Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
Person Specification
Essential
- Delivery Management and Team Collaboration
Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, maintaining strong focus on outcomes while proactively removing blockers. You foster healthy, transparent, and collaborative teams, resolve conflict, accelerate team performance, adapt team structures to context, and balance effective delivery with ongoing professional development - Agile and Lean Practices
You lead and coach on Agile and Lean practices, stay up to date with emerging trends, and continuously improve ways of working to enable effective delivery. You apply continuous planning, forecasting, estimation, metrics, risk management, and roadmap planning with strong awareness of team and cross-team activity. - Communicating between the technical and non-technical - You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity. Can successfully react and respond to challenges.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
How to Apply
Candidates must submit a CV (no more than 2 pages) and Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) should highlight your relevant experience and skills, supported by clear examples of work you have undertaken. It must address the following three criteria, listed within the Person Specification. Please structure your response using a separate paragraph for each:
- Delivery Management and Team Collaboration
Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, maintaining strong focus on outcomes while proactively removing blockers. You foster healthy, transparent, and collaborative teams, resolve conflict, accelerate team performance, adapt team structures to context, and balance effective delivery with ongoing professional development - Agile and Lean Practices
You lead and coach on Agile and Lean practices, stay up to date with emerging trends, and continuously improve ways of working to enable effective delivery. You apply continuous planning, forecasting, estimation, metrics, risk management, and roadmap planning with strong awareness of team and cross-team activity. - Communicating between the technical and non-technical - You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a team does to create trust and authenticity. Can successfully react and respond to challenges.
Application Guidance
Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a Personal Statement Application Guidance
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks.
We will assess your Experience, and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
● Leadership
● Changing and Improving
● Delivering at Pace
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will be invited to a one‑hour panel interview held via video call. You will also be asked to prepare a short, five‑minute presentation as part of the interview.
If you are successful after the initial screening, we will send you full details and guidance for the presentation ahead of your interview.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based the following Criteria will be conducted before the sift:
- Delivery Management and Team Collaboration
Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, maintaining strong focus on outcomes while proactively removing blockers. You foster healthy, transparent, and collaborative teams, resolve conflict, accelerate team performance, adapt team structures to context, and balance effective delivery with ongoing professional development
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk
