Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager
Salary: £50,900 - £68,000
Location: Cambridge, UK (Hybrid - we encourage applicants who are open to working in the office two days a week to apply)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week, Full-time (Monday to Friday, standard UK business hours)
Discover a world of endless possibilities with Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a distinguished global academic publisher and assessment organisation, proudly part of the University of Cambridge.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
We are looking for a dedicated Senior Delivery Manager to join our Exam Technology Organisation. The successful candidate will lead the successful delivery of cloud-native and platform-based solutions that support our global assessment operations.
About The Role
Reporting to the Delivery Lead, your accountabilities will include:
Additional Responsibilities And Accountabilities Include
- Enabling effective delivery across a portfolio of applications and agile teams - managing dependencies, coordinating releases, and ensuring technical solutions are scalable, secure and fit for purpose.
- Owning the technology stack in scope, maintaining supportability, performance and security compliance, and leading technical impact assessments and delivery estimates.
- Working closely with Product Owners, developers, testers and architects to drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of collaboration and accountability.
- Leading cross-functional teams - including developers, testers and DevOps engineers - without direct line management authority.
- Managing release planning, risk mitigation and stakeholder communication across complex delivery landscapes, influencing priorities with senior IT and business stakeholders.
- Supporting the expansion of cloud technologies and ensuring their integration into delivery pipelines and architecture.
This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.
About You
To be successful in this critical role, you will be able to demonstrate the following:
- Substantial experience in delivery management, project management or agile coaching within a software development environment.
- Should be able to demonstrate continuous delivery experience over multiple years within individual organisations.
- Deep understanding of Agile principles, with hands-on experience facilitating Scrum or Kanban delivery.
- Solid working knowledge of cloud platforms - AWS in particular (Azure or GCP also welcome) - and how they integrate into delivery pipelines and architecture.
- Sufficient hands-on technical understanding of cloud environments and modern application stacks to own supportability, challenge technical proposals and support delivery decisions.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, able to explain delivery concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Proven experience managing resource capacity, identifying skill gaps and planning team augmentation in a structured, forward-looking way.
- A data-driven mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement, experimentation and learning.
- Comfortable working with offshore and outsourced teams, collaborating effectively across time zones.
If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following
desirable criteria:
- Experience using Power BI or similar reporting tools.
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Bitbucket or similar platforms.
- Awareness of emerging AI tools and their potential impact on delivery practices.
- Exposure to assessment technologies or exam board processes.
- Relevant cloud or delivery certification (e.g. AWS, Agile/Scrum, project management).
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Please note that no relocation package is available for this position. Candidates are expected to be able to commit to and fulfil the required 40-60% office attendance requirement.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be
3 August 2026, although the vacancy may close earlier if a sufficient number of suitable candidates are identified. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and shortlisted candidates may be invited to interview throughout the advertising period.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- First stage virtual interview via MS Teams.
- Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
Documents
- Job Description - Senior Delivery Manager.pdf (280.77 KB)