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Job Title:  Senior Delivery Manager Salary:  £50,900 - £68,000  Location:  Cambridge/Hybrid with 40-60% of time in the office Contract:  Permanent  Hours:  Full- time   35 hours per week Are you passionate about enabling high‑performing delivery teams and ensuring complex technology products are released safely and effectively? We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world‑leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We are looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join our Exam Technology Organisation (ETO), working within Dev and Application Services. This is a key role where you will partner closely with Product Managers and technical teams to maximise delivery flow, quality, and team effectiveness while supporting our mission of delivering trusted exams and assessments worldwide. About the role    As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will be embedded within a product team in ETO and accountable for enabling effective, predictable delivery. You will ensure there is a timely flow of work and information, support release and risk management, and proactively shape team capability and capacity to meet delivery outcomes. Working in close partnership with the Product Manager, you will help balance priorities, manage dependencies, and create the conditions for teams to perform at their best. While you will not have direct line management accountability, your influence and leadership will be critical to the success of the team and the wider organisation. Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include: Owning and overseeing release planning and release management, ensuring appropriate controls, approvals, and measures are in place Supporting forecasting and cost tracking by inputting into product budgets, including headcount, skills, and third‑party costs Proactively identifying, managing, and reporting delivery risks and cross‑team dependencies Enabling effective collaboration across product, technical, and operational stakeholders Supporting the formation and continuous improvement of delivery teams, encouraging experimentation and learning Acting as a senior point of contact for delivery matters within your area of responsibility This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.  About You    You are an experienced delivery professional who thrives in complex, fast‑moving environments and is comfortable influencing without formal authority. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical knowledge with proven delivery management experience, and who can translate between engineering detail and delivery outcomes. Minimum requirements: Experience working in agile delivery teams, using Scrum and/or Kanban Experience leading or enabling software delivery teams Strong stakeholder and customer management capabilities Working knowledge of release management and risk management Experience working in cross‑functional, distributed teams, including onshore and offshore collaboration Excellent communication and facilitation skills If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate: Desirable criteria: A data‑driven and probabilistic approach to delivery management Strong experience managing dependencies and reducing delivery risk A passion for continuous improvement, learning, and experimentation Confidence running workshops, ceremonies, and large group sessions Experience empowering teams and supporting decentralised decision‑making For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site. W e are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.   Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the  gov.uk  website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.   Rewards and benefits     We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible  rewards package , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:   28 days annual leave plus bank holidays  Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance   Discretionary annual bonus   Group personal pension scheme  Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary   Green travel schemes   Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be  11th May.  We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place shortly after it closes. If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect: One application question at point of CV and cover letter A 15-minute screening call with the Hiring Manager. First stage virtual interview via MS Teams. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task which will need to be returned by email in advance of your interview. Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.     If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.  Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.   We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.      Why join us Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.  Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.  We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.   

Job Title:  Lead Software Architect Salary:  £68,600 to £91,700 Location:  Cambridge, UK – Hybrid Contract:  Permanent Hours:  Full time, 35 Hours Per Week Are you enthusiastic about shaping technology that delivers impact at scale? As we continue to evolve our digital platforms to support learners, lecturers and researchers around the world, we are looking to appoint an experienced and motivated Lead Software Architect to join our Academic Technology group here at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world‑leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a meaningful role in shaping the technical foundations of globally used digital products, ensuring they remain scalable, secure and fit for the future.  About the role    As Lead Software Architect, you will be accountable for owning the software architecture and engineering delivery across a product or platform vertical within our Academic Technology group. Working at the intersection of solution architecture, product and engineering, you will translate solution designs and product priorities into well‑architected, shippable software, ensuring that technical direction is sound and delivery is sustained from planning through to production and live operation. You will provide technical leadership across the full engineering lifecycle, including backend and frontend architecture, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and operational readiness. While this is not primarily a hands‑on coding role, it requires a strong engineering background and the ability to review code, challenge design decisions, unblock engineers and engage directly where it adds value. A core aspect of the role is leading the adoption of AI‑enhanced engineering practices. You will shape how teams use AI‑assisted tooling across planning, development and quality assurance, focusing on responsible, practical use that measurably improves delivery quality, throughput and maintainability. You will work closely with Solution Architects, Product Owners and UX colleagues to ensure requirements are technically feasible, well specified and correctly decomposed, acting as the key technical bridge between solution intent and engineering execution.  Additional responsibilities and accountabilities:   Owning the software architecture for an assigned product or platform area, ensuring solutions support both current delivery and future scalability. Driving engineering delivery from planning through to production, translating solution designs into implementable engineering plans with clear scope, dependencies and sequencing. Providing technical leadership and direction to distributed engineering teams, including Far shore, near shore and contract resources. Removing technical blockers, making pragmatic trade‑off decisions and keeping delivery on track. Defining and upholding technical standards, patterns and engineering conventions. Leading the adoption of AI‑assisted software development practices and tooling across engineering teams. Owning operational readiness, including infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and developer experience. Evaluating technology and tooling choices, including build‑vs‑buy decisions, with clear and defensible rationale. This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.  About You    As a senior software architecture or engineering leader, you will have a proven record of owning complex platforms or digital products end‑to‑end. You will be confident operating across technical and non‑technical audiences, bringing sound judgement, strong communication skills and a pragmatic approach to decision‑making. You will have experience translating product and solution designs into engineering delivery, leading distributed teams, and balancing technical quality with delivery pace in complex environments. If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate experience in content platforms, education technology, modern web technology stacks, or introducing new engineering tools and practices. For a detailed job description, refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.  We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's  Offer of an Interview  commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.  Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the  gov.uk  website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.   Rewards and benefits     We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible  rewards package , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:   28 days annual leave plus bank holidays  Private medical, Dental and Permanent Health Insurance   Discretionary annual bonus   Group personal pension scheme  Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary   Green travel schemes  Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.    We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be  8th May.  We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place shortly after it closes. We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:      2 questions to answer at the application stage with a CV. A 15-minute screening call with the Hiring Manager. First stage interview, in person (if possible) with senior engineering and product colleagues. Final stage interview: with Hiring Manager and Group Director, in-person at our offices in Cambridge.   If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.  Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.       We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.  Why join us   Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers, and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society, and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.  Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.  We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.  

Contract:  6 months fixed term contract, full-time Location:  London (hybrid-working) Closing Date : 15 April 2026 About the role The Programme Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating a portfolio of related projects to deliver strategic outcomes across Trinity College London’s UK and international markets. The role focuses on ensuring cohesive programme delivery, aligning multiple workstreams, and driving successful rollout and adoption across diverse markets. It brings together cross-functional initiatives into a structured programme, ensuring alignment to organisational priorities, effective governance, and realisation of benefits at scale. This is a critical role within change delivery, combining strategic oversight with a strong focus on execution, stakeholder alignment, and market adoption. Your duties will include, but not limited to: Lead the end-to-end delivery of programmes comprising multiple interdependent projects across business and technology domains. Define programme structure, governance, and delivery approach to ensure alignment across workstreams. Ensure coordination and integration of project outputs into a coherent programme outcome. Drive large-scale rollout and adoption across international and multi-market environments. Maintain focus on benefits realisation, ensuring outcomes deliver measurable value. Establish and maintain programme governance, ensuring alignment with organisational frameworks. Provide clear, consolidated reporting on programme progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes. Identify and manage cross-project risks, issues, and dependencies at programme level. Support decision-making through structured insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders Ensure effective prioritisation of resources in line with strategic objectives. Engage senior stakeholders, market leads, and functional teams to ensure alignment and commitment to programme outcomes. Act as a central point of coordination between UK and market teams. Drive stakeholder engagement strategies to support successful rollout and adoption. Communicate programme vision, progress, and impact clearly across all levels of the organisation. Lead the adoption of programme outputs across markets, ensuring sustainable implementation. Support organisational change and business process improvement initiatives. Embed continuous improvement, lessons learned, and best practice across programme delivery. Contribute to the development of programme management capability within the organisation.   About you Demonstrable experience delivering complex programmes within international or multi-market environments. Proven experience managing large-scale rollout and adoption initiatives. Strong understanding of programme governance, risk management, and benefits realisation. Experience aligning multiple projects within a programme or portfolio structure. Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate strategy into coordinated delivery. Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels. Clear and confident communicator across technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborative, adaptable, and able to operate in complex, evolving environments. Outcome-focused, with a strong emphasis on value and impact.   Our benefits Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of  benefits  here at Trinity.    Our commitment Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.  We actively encourages applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse.  Trinity promotes and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge. To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our  Equality, diversity and inclusion  page.    How to Apply To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of interest so please do not delay if interested. Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.  Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check. Trinity College London will collect and use your personal information for our recruitment process in accordance with our  Recruitment Privacy Notice . Trinity College London will hold candidate data on file for no more than six months from application submission. If you want your information to be removed earlier, please contact us directly. If we want to hold your information beyond the six months, we will contact you to get your consent. Our data protection policy can be viewed in full  here .

The Infrastructure team resides within the innovative and progressive Digital and Technology Directorate and is embedded in a major and exciting three year legacy displacement programme. The directorate is a welcoming group of over 100 multidisciplinary professionals, all focused on building, delivering and supporting secure, modern and efficient digital and technology services. This role leads the infrastructure team with responsibility for the design, implementation, administration and support of infrastructure and digital solutions and services and the effective deployment of resources. About the Role We are looking for an accomplished Digital and Technology Infrastructure Services Manager to join us and lead a team of engineers and their workload. You'll mentor, coach and help develop the team as well as work-load manage business as usual with projects. This is a great opportunity for you to apply your broad skills across a range of systems and services and to provide technical leadership, working collaboratively with key stakeholders and external parties in supporting and working closely with Digital and Technology teams, security advisors and senior management to provide solutions design, expertise and assurance to projects and programmes. You will help develop and maintain Digital and Technology infrastructure and platform policies and procedures, and work with senior management to develop the cyber security strategy. SC-level Security Clearance or willingness to obtain SC clearance is mandatory for this role and requires that you have lived in the UK for the last 3 years. The length of required residency may depend on individual circumstances. About You We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic senior manager who will play a major role in the delivery of Digital and Technology services, from legacy system improvements / replacements through to digital and IT transformation. You will work closely with the various Digital teams and the Cyber Security team to design, create and improve new and existing products and services and you will work with business users, delivery teams and suppliers to identify and resolve issues and user needs. You must have very good, broad experience and knowledge of working in a Digital and Technology support environment using a variety of tools to support the management and delivery of production services. You should have experience across all IT service delivery activities including service management, incident management, change management, release management, configuration management, continual service improvement and customer satisfaction as well as playing a role in ensuring the highest levels of operational service delivery. A key part of this role is core infrastructure lifecycle management, ensuring clear and effective roadmaps and taking responsibility for their upgrades or replacements as required. Aligned with this is working with partners to help deliver the service and contract management of these third parties, including support and maintenance contract renewals. The role incorporates budget responsibility for the infrastructure and associated services, working alongside Finance and Procurement colleagues on renewals and supplier performance management. In addition to the activities outlined above, you must have people management experience to lead a team of infrastructure engineers, delivering a range of IT services. Benefits • You will be based in a beautiful setting by the River Thames in Kew with staff parking and good transport links. • An opportunity to work a hybrid working pattern • A comprehensive benefits scheme including a generous Civil Service pension, a subsidised on-site coffee shop and restaurant, season ticket loans, on-site gym and clubs. • 25 days leave rising incrementally to 30 days after six years (plus 10.5 days public and privilege holidays each year) • Excellent training and development opportunities tailored to your role and an agreed development plan. • Influencing the strategic objectives and the opportunity to define, design and implement improvements. • An opportunity to use or learn a wide range of skills. This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department. A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site for a minimum of 60% of their work time. Application Process: Interviews: Interviews will be held onsite, no earlier than week commencing 4th May Applications: You will be asked to provide answers to 5 questions relating to the key requirements for the role, and to provide your work history. Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.  Please visit the Civil Service Careers website where you can find further information on the use of AI in the application guidance section. Sponsorship: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Reference number: 431765 Salary: £57,500– £62,500 Total Package: Grade 7 Contract: Permanent Location: London/Milton Keynes/East Kilbride We lead the UK’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world.  We employ around 17,000 staff in our global network of 281 offices worldwide. Our UK-based staff work in King Charles Street in London, Abercrombie House in East Kilbride and in Milton Keynes. Your role with us   The Information and Digital Directorate is responsible for delivering our ambition to make the FCDO the world’s most technologically integrated and innovative foreign ministry. This means harnessing digital, data, technology, IT security and information management to deliver our diplomatic, development and consular aims, all while keeping our people and information safe, especially from hostile actors.  When you join us in this significant role, you’ll lead our dynamic Service Centre teams and work to ensure that all service and support functions are responsive to the needs of our end users, technical changes are well managed and communicated, and problems are resolved at root cause. Focused on championing knowledge management, continuous improvement and operational excellence, and enabling our organisation’s global work through reliable, innovative IT services, you’ll also play a key role in shaping the culture and capability of the Service Centre.  Committed to providing effective line management and championing diversity and inclusion, you’ll foster an environment where learning and professional growth are actively encouraged. You’ll hold overall responsibility for ten teams across our offices in London, East Kilbride and Milton Keynes, and by managing resources, prioritising capacity and leading recruitment, you’ll ensure they’re equipped to meet evolving organisational needs.   Who we’re looking for   To be a success in this vital role you should hold an ITIL Service Management qualification at Foundation level, possess strong technical skills, and have a track record of leading operational Service Desk functions. It’s important that you can demonstrate a number of skills at the role level of Senior IT Service Management – these should include Service Management Framework Knowledge (Practitioner Level), User Focus (Expert Level), Service Focus (Practitioner Level) and Strategic Thinking (Practitioner Level).  When you join us you’ll enjoy access to a wide range of professional development opportunities, including Civil Service training and qualifications such as Information, Technology Infrastructure Library, Strategic Decision Making and Leadership skills. So if you’re excited by the idea of leading change, influencing service strategy and delivering value at scale, this is your opportunity to make a real impact and lead from the front.  If you’re successful you’ll be expected to travel to FCDO offices across the UK on a monthly basis and international travel may also be involved. Please be aware that you must be a British Citizen at the time of application and be required to attain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance. For more information about this process, click here .  We value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from all communities.  Everyone here gets the support to develop their skills and capabilities as well as benefits that help to make the most of life in and out of work, including a Civil Service pension.  Use your talent and experience to shape our nation’s future, and deliver tangible improvements to millions of lives, including your own.  Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 2nd March 2026.