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Base Location: Havant, Reading, Leeds, Glasgow, Perth, Inverness and Aberdeen

Salary: £58,100 - £87,100 + performance related bonus and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

We’re Looking For a Delivery Lead, To

drive full-lifecycle delivery across two of SSE Thermal’s Operational Technology (OT) value streams:

• OT Security – supporting critical DMZ services for Flexible Generation and Energy Storage
• OT Systems – enabling secure operations of private electrical networks, control systems, and control rooms
  
  

• Own and manage delivery flow across Agile teams, ensuring consistent value delivery through facilitation, impediment resolution, and performance tracking.
• Lead financial oversight across both value streams — including budget tracking, forecasting, procurement, and receipting — in partnership with Product Owners and DTSO.
• Provide line management, mentoring and coaching support to other Delivery Managers within Thermal IT, helping to build delivery capability, ensuring consistency in delivery standards.
• Coordinate delivery across internal teams, third-party suppliers, and engineering stakeholders to meet OT risk, cyber compliance, and change governance standards.
• Support product backlog and roadmap planning to align delivery cadence with business priorities, capacity, and operational dependencies.
• Champion secure-by-design and DevSecOps principles, ensuring safe, compliant delivery and sustainable in-life operation.
  
  

• Proven experience in a Delivery Lead or senior Agile delivery role, with accountability across multiple teams or delivery workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience in line management, coaching and mentoring of other delivery professionals, with a focus on capability development and performance support.
• Strong working knowledge of OT networks, SCADA, ICS, and secure infrastructure delivery in regulated or asset-intensive environments.
• Proficient in budget ownership, procurement, and financial control processes across delivery portfolios.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement, risk management, and coordination across engineering, cyber, and third-party teams.
• Confident in the use of Agile tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps) and delivery metrics to drive visibility, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Utilities, Oil and Gas, and Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing

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