Technical Delivery Manager

Company Description

Photon, a global leader in AI and digital solutions, partners with 40% of the Fortune 100 to drive innovation and AI adoption. By leveraging DigitalHyper-expansion, Photon empowers businesses to stay agile and future-ready amidst evolving digital and AI landscapes. The company powers billions of touchpoints daily, combining AI management, product design thinking, and engineering excellence to enable lasting transformation. With a workforce spanning several thousand employees across dozens of countries, Photon continues to shape tomorrow's technology solutions today. Learn more at

Role Description

Technical Delivery Manager:

Your role in the Team's Success
We are now looking for an experienced Technology Delivery Manager to act as the interface for a group of technical teams, ensuring smooth software delivery and optimisation for early value delivery. While experienced engineering managers own major strategic initiatives, this role focuses on delivering incremental improvements and supporting them when required through dependency management with technology functions outside the UK. You will manage and optimise workflow into and out of the UK Technology Division while supporting the Head of UK Technology with team management, resourcing, planning, and work visualisation.

What You'll Do Delivery Leadership and Optimisation

• Focus on delivering incremental value improvements as well as unexpected/unplanned work such as regulatory items that require coordination outside of established team structures
• Support experienced engineering managers who own major strategic initiatives, particularly through understanding external dynamics and ways of working outside the UK Technology division
• Identify, manage and coordinate dependencies (inbound/outbound) with other Technology Delivery Managers
• Anticipate and resolve potential blockers to delivery using technical expertise
• Translate technical issues into clear options enabling swift decision making

Team Enablement and Continuous Improvement

• Provide support and mentor teams on agile practices and data-driven continuous improvement
• Help teams understand and address bottlenecks using empirical methods
• Support teams in continually improving standards, ways of working and organisational structure
• Enable work by ensuring teams have the resources needed to start and track the process

Stakeholder Collaboration and Communication

• Excel at stakeholder communication at all levels
• Collaborate closely with Delivery Managers, Engineering Managers, Product Managers and business stakeholders to optimise delivery timelines
• Provide regular delivery updates through verbal and written communications
• Support project discovery, definition and estimation coordination
• Attend stakeholder meetings and represent the domain in project working groups

What You'll Need For This Role

• Proven track record of delivering complex cross-functional projects from inception to delivery
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to understand architectural systems and engineering concepts and coordinate optimal solutions
• Experience managing complex dependencies across multiple teams and external stakeholders
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to engage effectively across all organisational levels
• Ability to translate high-level strategic initiatives into tangible action plans
• Excellent organisation and project planning skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives
• Deep knowledge of agile methodologies and the ability to mentor teams in best practices

Good working understanding of continuous delivery and DevOps frameworks

KEY NOTE :

• Role Focus
  : Primarily an excellent 
  communicator
   who can 
  manage stakeholders
  .
• Key Responsibilities
  :
• Manage dependencies with key business stakeholders (business heads, leadership for various divisions).
• Represent 
  IG Trading
   (legacy platform) and 
  IG Markets
   (new platform/Next Gen. Techmod areas, mostly mobile apps) for the APAC and ME regions.
• Work with other TDMs and change managers.
• Technical Skills (Good to Have, Not Mandatory)
  : Solid understanding of Next Gen. tech systems, especially 
  mobile apps
  . Should be able to connect the dots and clearly communicate 
  technical dependencies
  .
• Exposure to 
  microservices, event-based architecture, and distributed systems
   is helpful.
• No hands-on development
   is required.
• Project Management
  : Experience with Agile practices like 
  Scrum sprints, roadmap planning, and quarterly planning
   is required; certification is 
  not
   a must. The company uses 
  Confluence and Wiki
   for project management. They are 
  not
   following 
  SAFe
  .

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