Delivery Lead

About Us

Magentus products and services have been at the forefront of delivering health technology for more than 30 years, offering deep expertise across clinical systems, health informatics and practice management.

Across pathology, radiology, oncology, maternity, and practice management, we are connecting the health ecosystem and transforming digital healthcare at scale. Driven by our dedicated teams across the globe, our success reflects our passionate commitment to improving healthcare outcomes.

People are at the heart of everything we do at Magentus — we work as one team to create a healthier society.

Short Summary

The Delivery Lead plays a critical role in ensuring product teams delivery high-quality, valuable outcomes efficiently and effectively and aim to reduce the overall cost of delivering customer value.

More hands-on than an Agile Coach or Scrum Master, this role is embedded in product teams, and responsible for ensuring efficient and effective delivery of customer value by proactively identifying and addressing risks, resolving dependencies, and optimising team flow. The Delivery Lead brings strong portfolio management practices into execution, ensuring alignment with business priorities whilst maintaining a sustainable pace of delivery. The Delivery Lead collaborates closely with the Product Manager, Product Designer, and Engineers to ensure teams are regularly delivering customer outcomes within business and operational guardrails.

This is not a process-only or facilitation role and requires deep understanding of the product delivery lifecycle, with the ability to dive into observability tooling, performance metrics, and product analytics. Importantly, this role is responsible for driving the appropriate balance of feature, tech improvement, security findings, and managing levels of technical debt within teams (i.e. aligned to the agreed portfolio allocations).

Key Responsibilities of the role:

Delivery Ownership and Execution

• Drive the end-to-end delivery of product initiatives, ensuring work is well-sequenced, dependencies are managed, and risks are mitigated.
• Accountable for ensuring teams are creating and maintaining realistic delivery plans (capacity, milestones, releases, benefits realisation) with the ability to call out issues early based on progress to plan data.
• Partner with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and Platform teams to balance delivery speed, technical health, customer and business value.
• Data-driven continuous improvements and optimisation of ways of working that enable teams to deliver incrementally while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Responsible for the end-to-end ownership of all agile ceremonies to ensure effectiveness and value toward to delivery of customer value.
• Support teams in breaking down work into achievable increments that deliver customer value faster.
• Incident management and defect resolution. Effective Post Incident Review reporting and addressing underlying problems to avoid future incidents of a similar nature.
• Accountable for effective status reporting, identification of trends, and delivering compelling insights to inform teams and senior leadership.
• Responsible for objective analysis of benefits realisation and intended goals as baselined at the start of initiative

Portfolio & Dependency Management

• Responsible for ensuring product teams' work aligns with broader portfolio objectives and strategic priorities.
• Accountable for effective reporting of CAPEX levels within the team, and ensuring teams are following the correct processes for work to be categorised appropriately.
• Accountable for surfacing and resolving cross-team dependencies and constraints early, coordinating with other Delivery Leads and stakeholders.
• Drive appropriate delivery systems and tools to enable progress to plan visibility between product teams and the wider organisation, ensuring transparency of progress, risks, and trade offs

Risk Management & Continuous Improvement

• Proactively identify delivery risks and accountability for ensuring mitigation strategies are in place.
• Facilitate the right conversations to align stakeholders, clear roadblocks, and enable teams to move forward effectively.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging data and feedback to enhance team efficiency, collaboration, and predictability.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Foster a strong delivery culture within the team, ensuring a shared understanding of goals and accountability.
• Champion and scale out agile, systems thinking, value stream, and lean practices with pragmatism and practicality — demonstrating through data what works for the team and business.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to create an environment where teams can thrive

What experience do I need:

Technical Requirements:

• Strong proficiency in running and ability to recommend Atlassian tooling improvements across our ecosystem, including; Compass, Jira Software, Jira Product Discovery, and Atlassian Analytics
• Experience with cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Expert understanding of software development practices and how these are practically
• implemented with product teams (e.g., TDD, BDD, Pair Programming)
• Experience with DevOps practices (e.g., CI/CD, observability, infrastructure as code)

General Attributes

• Strong problem-solving skills with a passion for tackling complex technical challenges
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Self-motivated and able to work independently, as well as collaboratively in a team environment
• Adaptable and open to learning new technologies and methodologies
• A proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation
• Proven ability to mentor and motivate teams

What’s in it for you:

Flexible Working Environment:

• Hybrid working environment from London (Farringdon) – 3 days a week from the Office and 2 from home

Leave:

• 25 days (increases with length of service up to 4 days) plus 8 bank holiday
• Holiday purchase scheme via salary sacrifice
• An extra day annual leave for your birthday
• Enhanced Maternity Leave
• Enhanced Paternity Leave
• Religious holiday swap programme
• Up to two days paid Volunteering days
• Paid time off during the working day to donate blood
• Pawrental Leave

Leadership & Development:

• Litmos learning
• Product Training

Employee Recognition:

• Peer recognitions
• CEO awards
• Length of service awards
• Performance Annual Bonus Programme

Employee Benefits:

• Life Insurance (4x annual salary)
• Private health care (BUPA) plus discounted rates to add your loved ones
• Salary Sacrifice Pension
• Income Protection
• EAP (access to online Healthcare)
• Employee Referral scheme- £1,000 tax free
• Branded merchandise starter pack
• £250 working from home allowance
• Free Flu Jabs
• Enhanced Sick Pay

Our values say a lot about us:

• One Team
• Make a difference
• We Care
• Constant Evolution
• Trust

People are at the heart of everything we do at Magentus — we work as one team to create a healthier society. We hold monthly communication sessions with the Senior Leadership Team to provide company updates and strategic briefings.

Magentus Software Limited is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees feel valued and respected.

We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals and believe in fostering a workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and succeed.

We are also a proud member of the Disability Confident Employer Scheme, demonstrating our commitment to supporting disabled individuals in the workplace.

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