Lead Outcome Technology Delivery Manager Cerberus – Programme Lead

As a Lead Outcome Technology Delivery Manager, you will be accountable for the delivery of outcomes through the complex technology products and services delivered by multiple teams. You will set up your teams for success and represent the delivery of outcomes to stakeholders and suppliers, building successful relationships across and beyond the organisation. You will ensure that decisions are made through effective, efficient governance, leading to better outcomes.

As a leader in the Home Office Technology Delivery community, you’ll share knowledge and experience with colleagues across the department and wider Government, building skills, advising others, and applying good practice and standards.

You will support the UK’s security and prosperity through the technology outcomes that your teams deliver.

Main Responsibilities

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:  

• Accountable for delivery against the agreed roadmap, with clear ownership of outcomes, plans, dependencies, risks and assurance, ensuring delivery stays on track within agreed quality, cost and time constraints.
• Establish and maintain effective governance, ensuring it is proportionate, decision‑making is timely, teams are well prepared to engage, and actions arising are owned and completed. Provide clear, consistent reporting and delivery confidence to senior stakeholders.
• Actively manage delivery risks and interdependencies, ensuring risks are identified, understood and mitigated, drawing on specialist input where required, and escalating issues appropriately.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and communication, identifying stakeholder groups and their needs, developing engagement strategies, and ensuring regular, accurate communication throughout delivery.
• Lead supplier and partner management, ensuring supplier performance aligns to programme priorities, issues are addressed proactively, and supplier activity is fully integrated into delivery plans, while continuously improving supplier management practices.
• Build and sustain high‑performing, joined‑up delivery teams, creating the right environment for effective cross‑functional collaboration, monitoring team health, resolving issues, and embedding and scaling the AI delivery capability into BAU ways of working to deliver outcomes at pace.

UK residency and security requirements       

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years.  

However, in exceptional circumstances security clearance applications for candidates who have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years may be considered. Failure to meet this residency requirement will result in your security clearance application being rejected.