IDP Technical Delivery Lead

Overview

In this role you will lead the enterprise delivery and rollout of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), balancing technical delivery leadership with programme management. You’ll coordinate cross-functional teams to evolve the platform from roadmap to pilot and enterprise adoption, ensuring technical readiness and governance. You will act as a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders, shaping the platform as a product and driving measurable improvements in delivery velocity. This is about enabling self-service, standardisation and developer experience at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• tailored benefits
• flexible work options
• Learning and Development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end IDP delivery from roadmap through pilot, rollout, adoption and transition to operations
• Act as a trusted delivery partner to senior client technology stakeholders with clear progress visibility
• Translate strategic objectives into a prioritized IDP roadmap and delivery plan
• Plan and manage enterprise onboarding of teams and applications in controlled waves
• Own programme-level prioritisation across platform capabilities, integrations and onboarding
• Coordinate cross-workstream delivery across Platform Engineering, Cloud, DevOps, Security, Architecture, and Developer Experience
• Establish governance covering milestones, RAID, dependencies, decisions, financials and forecasting
• Track adoption, developer experience and delivery efficiency
• Ensure technical dependencies, non-functional requirements and operational readiness are incorporated
• Lead and coordinate distributed teams across onshore, nearshore and offshore locations
• Manage stakeholder relationships and resolve competing priorities
• Ensure transition to run includes appropriate support models, governance and documentation

Key requirements

• Strong background in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE or related field
• Deep understanding of Internal Developer Platforms, developer self-service, service catalogues, golden paths, platform APIs
• 10+ years in technology roles with experience leading complex enterprise technology programmes or platform transformations
• Experience managing large, multi-workstream technology programmes
• Experience with enterprise platform rollout from pilot to broad adoption
• Knowledge of modern Platform Engineering principles, automation and self-service
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, IaC, Git-based workflows, containers, cloud platforms and delivery automation
• Credible client-facing leadership with senior stakeholders
• Delivery governance experience across plans, milestones, RAID, resources and reporting
• Stakeholder alignment across multiple teams and business units

• stakeholder management
• leadership
• clear communication
• Platform Engineering
• DevOps
• Cloud Engineering

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