Contract Delivery Lead - Azure/API-First Programme
Posted 1 day ago by TechNet IT Recruitment (Permanent)
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Worcestershire, UK
Summary: The Contract Delivery Lead will oversee a complex Azure-based, API-first software programme, ensuring delivery ownership and governance control. This role requires a hands-on approach to manage execution and control, distinct from traditional Scrum Master or Agile Coach positions. The successful candidate will be accountable for delivery plans, risk management, and governance reporting. This position is a replacement hire aimed at enhancing delivery effectiveness within the programme.
Key Responsibilities:
- Personally commit to delivery plans and stage exits
- Actively manage scope, sequencing, and interdependencies
- Identify, mitigate, and own programme risk
- Use Jira as a genuine planning and control tool (not just reporting)
- Provide clear, structured, defensible governance reporting
- Stabilise and reset delivery where required
- Operate confidently within a live Azure, API-first architecture environment
Key Skills:
- Proven experience leading delivery within Azure-based software programmes
- Strong technical credibility - able to challenge engineering constructively
- Demonstrable experience resetting or stabilising live programmes
- Clear evidence of delivery ownership, not coordination
- Strong governance discipline and stakeholder confidence at senior level
- Experience operating in regulated or structured delivery environments preferred
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Worcestershire
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract Delivery Lead - Azure/API-First Programme
Worcestershire (Hybrid)
12 Month Contract
Inside IR35
Technet IT has partnered with a leading organisation in the industry to appoint an experienced Contract Delivery Lead for a live, Azure-based, API-first software programme.
This is a replacement hire. The previous appointment did not provide the level of delivery ownership and governance control required, so we are being deliberately precise in our brief.
This is not a Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or reporting PM role.
We require a hands-on delivery owner who will take full accountability for execution and control across a complex live programme.
The Role
You will:
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Personally commit to delivery plans and stage exits
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Actively manage scope, sequencing, and interdependencies
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Identify, mitigate, and own programme risk
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Use Jira as a genuine planning and control tool (not just reporting)
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Provide clear, structured, defensible governance reporting
-
Stabilise and reset delivery where required
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Operate confidently within a live Azure, API-first architecture environment
What We're Looking For
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Proven experience leading delivery within Azure-based software programmes
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Strong technical credibility - able to challenge engineering constructively
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Demonstrable experience resetting or stabilising live programmes
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Clear evidence of delivery ownership, not coordination
-
Strong governance discipline and stakeholder confidence at senior level
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Experience operating in regulated or structured delivery environments preferred
Delivery ownership and technical credibility are non-negotiable.
This is an Inside IR35 engagement requiring an individual comfortable operating with autonomy, clarity, and accountability.
If you have led complex Azure/API programmes end-to-end and are confident taking full control of delivery outcomes, we would welcome a conversation.