Technology Delivery Manager - Software & Platforms
Requirements
The role requires significant experience leading complex technology, software, digital product, or platform programmes, along with strong programme, commercial, financial, and stakeholder leadership. Candidates should have experience leading large distributed teams and knowledge of product-centric Agile delivery, modern engineering practices, cloud-native architectures, DevOps, CI/CD, quality engineering, and responsible AI or automation.
Job Description
Technology Delivery Manager - Software & Platforms
Career Level 7: Manager
Location: London
As a Technology Delivery Manager in our Software & Platforms team, you will lead complex programmes that create, modernise and operate software products, digital platforms and cloud-based services. You will be accountable for client outcomes, delivery performance, commercial control and team leadership. You will shape delivery models that combine product thinking, engineering excellence, platform capabilities and responsible AI to deliver measurable value at pace.
What you will do
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex software product, platform engineering and technology transformation programmes.
- Define delivery strategy, governance, operating model, integrated roadmap and measurable outcomes across multiple workstreams.
- Own programme financials, forecasts, resourcing, contractual commitments, delivery assurance and overall programme health.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and act as an advisor on programme execution, product delivery and platform transformation.
- Lead geographically distributed teams spanning product, engineering, architecture, security, data, cloud, quality engineering and operations.
- Establish engineering and operational controls covering architecture, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, security, resilience, observability, release management and service transition.
- Drive proactive management of risks, issues, dependencies, technical debt and non-functional requirements.
- Shape AI-enabled delivery models, automation opportunities and reusable assets while maintaining responsible AI, privacy, security and governance requirements.
- Support business development, solutioning, estimates, proposals, mobilisation and contract shaping for Software & Platforms opportunities.
What we are looking for
- Significant experience leading complex technology, software engineering, digital product or platform programmes.
- Strong programme leadership, commercial management, financial control and stakeholder influencing capabilities.
- Proven experience leading large, multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
- Strong understanding of product-centric delivery, Agile methods, the software development lifecycle and modern engineering practices.
- Working knowledge of cloud-native architectures, DevOps, CI/CD, automated quality engineering, SRE or managed service operations.
- Demonstrated ability to improve delivery outcomes through innovation, automation, data and AI.
Set yourself apart
- Leadership experience across SaaS, platform engineering, product modernisation, API ecosystems, cloud transformation or high-scale digital services.
- Experience shaping outcome-based commercial models, delivery metrics, service levels and acceptance criteria.
- Understanding of multi-tenant platforms, ecosystem partnerships, developer experience and platform operating models.
- Track record of applying responsible AI and automation to improve engineering productivity, quality, predictability and service performance.
About the opportunity
You will work with diverse teams to solve complex client challenges, develop your skills and contribute to inclusive, high-performing delivery. Role requirements may vary by engagement and client context.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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About Accenture
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone else's copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.
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