Technical Delivery Lead, Business Applications

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