Senior Delivery Manager in Sheffield

At Grant Thornton we do things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance.

Grant Thornton UK LLP is part of a global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms, made up of some 58,000 people in over 135 countries. We're a team of independent thinkers who put quality, inclusion and integrity first. All around the world we bring a different experience to our clients. A better experience. One that delivers the expertise they need in a way that goes beyond. Personal, proactive, and agile.

As an Engineering Delivery Manager in our engineering function at GT, you will hold two connected responsibilities. Your priority is people management: line-managing a group of engineers and owning their growth, wellbeing and performance. Alongside that, you are the delivery and agile lead for one or more pods, owning capacity, flow and ways of working so those pods can do their best work.

A look into the role:

• Line-manage and develop a group of engineers, through regular one to ones, honest feedback and real career conversations.
• Own the growth, wellbeing and performance of the people you manage, drawing on input from the pods and leads they work with day to day.
• Build trust and psychological safety with your people, so they feel able to ask questions, admit what they do not know, and do their best work.
• Lead hiring, onboarding and retention for the people you manage.
• Own capacity and resource allocation for one or more pods, making sure the right engineers, skills and balance of experience are available to support what the pod is being asked to deliver.
• Support everyone in the pods you lead to do their best work regardless of who manages them.

Agile practice and delivery coaching:

• Act as the agile practitioner for your pods, choosing and implementing the ways of working that fit, and coaching each team to run its own ceremonies well.
• Use agile and lean techniques to keep improving the delivery cycle.
• Raise agile maturity across engineering by sharing what works between pods.

Delivery support and blocker resolution:

• Use your knowledge of the software delivery lifecycle to spot blockers and delivery risks early.
• Track flow metrics and use them to drive real improvement in how the pod works.
• Partner with the Product Manager in each pod.

Partnership, community and AI-native delivery:

• Work in genuine partnership with the Tech Leads and Product Managers in your pods.
• Draw on the engineering management community of practice for your own craft development and peer support.

Knowing you're right for us:

• Proven experience line-managing and developing engineers, and running agile delivery for a team or pod.
• People-first leadership, with real strength in coaching, honest feedback, wellbeing and inclusive team-building.
• A track record of capacity planning, resource allocation, skills mapping, flow and unblocking in a sustainable delivery environment.
• Confidence leading in a fast-moving, AI-native environment.

Knowing we're right for you:

• Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.
• Our open and accessible culture means you'll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm.
• We're also committed to supporting you through different life stages, with a range of family friendly and wider leave policies.

Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you're with outside of work matter, that's why we're happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles.