Delivery Manager - Public Sector

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK. A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long‑term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e‑learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer‑to‑peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work‑life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your role and responsibilities:

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of cloud modernisation projects in line with the SOW and contract.
• Manage scope, schedule, costs, and quality across multiple workstreams.
• Apply modernisation techniques including refactor, containerisation, APIs, and microservices.
• Oversee design and delivery incorporating SOE, SOI, SOI (integration), and SOR components.
• Act as the primary interface with client PMs and senior stakeholders.

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Google Cloud).
• Expertise in agile delivery models and design thinking approaches.
• Deep understanding of co‑existence architecture and continuous modernisation.
• Ability to manage complex technical projects with multiple dependencies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent leadership and team management.
• Strong Risk Management abilities.
• Delivery of delivery plans.
• Strong experience working within an Agile Framework: Scrum / Kanban.
• Excellent Communication and Collaboration experience.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Experience in language and database conversion initiatives.
• Background in enterprise‑scale API and microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of garage method for cloud delivery.
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud integration patterns.
• Experience with JIRA Confluence Mural Planner Microsoft Suite.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.