Senior Delivery Manager
£50,900 - £68,000 a year
Location
Cambridge, UK (Hybrid - we encourage applications from people who are comfortable working in the office two days a week)
Contract
Permanent
Working Hours
35 hours per week, Full time (Monday to Friday, normal UK business hours)
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is a world renowned academic publisher and assessment company, and part of the University of Cambridge. With us you'll discover a world of opportunity that has no bounds.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud member of the University of Cambridge.
We are recruiting a committed Senior Delivery Manager to join our Exam Technology Organisation. The selected candidate will be responsible for the successful delivery of cloud native and platform based solutions to support our worldwide assessment activities.
About Role
You will report to the Delivery Lead and will be responsible for:
Other duties and responsibilities include:
- Helping to deliver effectively across a portfolio of apps and agile teams, managing dependencies, coordinating releases, ensuring technical solutions are scalable, secure and suitable for purpose.
- Own the technology stack in scope, be accountable for supportability, performance and security compliance and lead technical impact assessments and delivery estimates.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, developers, testers and architects to promote continuous improvement and build a culture of cooperation and accountability.
- Led cross-functional teams of developers, testers and DevOps engineers without having direct line management authority.
- Complex delivery environments, influencing priorities with senior IT and business stakeholders, Release planning, Risk mitigation and stakeholder communication.
- Contribute to the evolution of cloud technologies and their inclusion in delivery pipelines and architecture.
This position has been designated as a hybrid position, where the successful candidate will generally spend 40-60% of time working and interacting in person at their assigned location.
As well as our hybrid principles, we will consider other flexible working requests from day one of employment, including different working arrangements if you need adaptations because to a disability or long term health condition.
Your Profile
The following skills and qualities are essential to succeed in this vital role:
- Significant experience with delivery management, project management or agile coaching in a software development context.
- Strong knowledge of Agile principles.
- Hands on expertise in assisting Scrum or Kanban delivery.
- Good working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP welcome) and how they fit into delivery pipelines and architecture.
- Enough hands on technical awareness of cloud environments and modern application stacks to own supportability, question technical proposals and support delivery decisions.
- Excellent communication and facilitation abilities.
- Comfortable working with overseas, outsourced teams.
- Experience with Power BI.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Bitbucket.
- Knowledge of developing AI tools.
- Knowledge of assessment technologies.
- Relevant cloud or delivery certification.
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Permanent Health Insurance
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Personal group pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Green Travel Initiatives
- Skilled Worker Visa Route
Cambridge University Press & Assessment are a qualified sponsor for eligible posts and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK.
Recruitment Process
- First stage virtual interview via MS Teams
- Final stage interview in Cambridge
Apply Early
Applications close 22 July 2026 or earlier if sufficient applications are received.