Core Cloud Delivery Manager
Rate: £565
Clearance required: BPSS + SC ACTIVE
Location: Croydon - as and when for important meetings
"The Delivery Manager is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the clients Core Cloud services, ensuring platforms, products, and supplier outcomes are delivered on time, within tolerance, and to production-grade standards.
This is not a ceremonial Agile role. It is a hands-on delivery leadership position operating in a high-assurance, multi-supplier, politically visible environment. You will be expected to control risk, expose reality early, and keep delivery moving despite ambiguity, dependency churn, and security constraints.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery & Execution
- Own delivery across one or more Core Cloud workstreams (platform, migration, security uplift, tooling, or service onboarding).
- Translate strategy, roadmaps, and funding intent into executable delivery plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and tolerances.
- Drive delivery through discovery, alpha, beta, and live phases without losing momentum.
- Actively manage delivery risk, technical debt, and operational constraints
Stakeholder & Governance Management
- Operate confidently across the clients senior stakeholders, DDaT leadership, architects, security teams, and commercial functions.
- Run delivery governance forums with clarity and pace, focusing on decisions, not theatre.
- Provide clear, honest delivery reporting (RAG, risks, mitigations, forecast confidence).
- Challenge optimism bias and escalate early when delivery is at risk.
Multi-Supplier & Team Leadership
- Coordinate delivery across multiple suppliers and internal teams, ensuring clear ownership and zero gaps.
- Enable engineering teams by removing blockers rather than adding process drag.
- Foster a delivery culture that values predictability, quality, and operational readiness.
Agile, Lean & Assurance Alignment
- Apply Agile pragmatically using Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches as appropriate.
- Ensure delivery aligns with GDS Service Manual, the clients assurance gates, and NCSC expectations.
- Balance speed with assurance
- Financial & Commercial Awareness
- Track delivery against funding envelopes and call out burn-rate risks early.
- Support commercial governance, change control, and scope management.
- Ensure value is demonstrable, not implied.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience delivering large-scale cloud or platform programmes in complex environments.
- Strong background in public sector digital delivery, ideally within central government.
- Demonstrable experience managing multi-supplier delivery under tight assurance constraints.
- Comfortable working with cloud platforms (AWS) and understanding modern DevOps delivery models.
- Strong grasp of delivery metrics, forecasting, dependency management, and risk control.
- Confident communicator who can challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
- Experience working under security, compliance, and regulatory constraints.
Desirable Experience
- Experience delivering or operating core cloud, shared platforms, or landing zones.
- Familiarity with the clients governance, GDS assessments, or cross-government platforms.
- Exposure to FinOps, platform reliability, or live service operations.
- Experience supporting migration programmes or large-scale onboarding.
'This role requires additional vetting, which means this could take longer than our normal onboarding process. You will require additional vetting for this position, which means the process can take longer than the usual onboarding process with Capgemini. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries.'
