Location: Paddington or Newbury
The Digital & IT platform is responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise‑scale digital and technology capabilities that enable scalable, multi‑market delivery. The platform provides cloud‑native engineering foundations, reusable enablers, and secure services that support fast, reliable, and high‑quality execution across complex value streams.
Operating within a multi‑market, multi‑tenant environment, the platform plays a central role in shaping large‑scale digital initiatives and future growth beyond traditional boundaries.
Value Stream Engineering Team deliver end‑to‑end digital experiences through cross‑functional, product‑centric squads. Each squad owns clear customer and commercial outcomes — from launching new digital propositions to evolving core platform capabilities — using modern engineering practices and cloud‑native tooling.
The Platform Delivery Lead is a senior role accountable for orchestrating fast, predictable, and high‑quality delivery across multiple cross‑functional squads building critical digital and IT platform capabilities. The role ensures strong alignment across engineering, product, architecture, and commercial teams, while removing delivery obstacles and enabling efficient execution at scale.
Given the responsibilities outlined above, the role includes:
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Provide strategic delivery leadership across multiple squads, influencing 40+ FTEs to enable high‑velocity, high‑quality delivery.
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Drive effective outcomes across significant annual platform investment, improving efficiency, reducing cycle time, and increasing delivery throughput.
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Guiding senior engineering, product, and architecture leaders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and mitigate delivery risk.
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Lead cross‑functional delivery governance and forums, enabling fast decision‑making, proactive risk management, and clear communication across Digital & IT, Commercial, Network, and Security stakeholders.
