Delivery Lead

Delivery Lead

St. Louis, MO 3 days/week onsite

Long Term Contract

The Senior Delivery Lead is accountable for end-to-end delivery of large-scale, complex technology programmes across multiple geographic zones. Operating as a trusted adviser to senior client stakeholders, this role bridges business objectives and delivery execution ensuring seamless programme governance, commercial rigour, and sustained delivery excellence across the full programme lifecycle.

The role demands a blend of deep technical programme management expertise, consultancy experience, executive stakeholder management and people enablement. Operating across engineering, product, architecture, and business change functions in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments they will be able to engage and challenge at all levels to ensure delivery on time and budget.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Own end-to-end delivery across multi-region / multi-zone technology teams and programmes

Define and embed programme governance: planning cadences, RAID management, quality controls, and escalation frameworks

Lead integrated planning across agile and waterfall workstreams, managing scope, resource, and cross-team dependencies

Ensure adherence to delivery timelines, quality standards, internal and customer governance as well as agreed delivery objectives to tight deadlines throughout the programme lifecycle

Drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency across delivery processes and tooling

Ensure a clear communication strategy and standard across the programmes and teams, including executive reporting and cross-functional updates

Facilitation of workshops and requirements discovery bringing teams together to align on value driven business outcomes

Maintain sufficient technical depth across architecture, cloud, or enterprise systems to challenge estimates, assess risks, and make informed trade-off decisions

Ensure all deliverables meet architectural standards, security requirements, and regulatory obligations

Foster a high-performance, inclusive delivery culture with clear accountability and psychological safety

Act as a role model across the teams and delivery, with awareness of individuals wellbeing to enable and foster a combined delivery mentality.

Required Skills Experience

12 18+ years of technology delivery experience, with at least 5 years in senior programme or delivery lead roles

Demonstrable consultancy experience: engagement shaping, client advisory, commercial management, and pre-sales / bid contribution

Proven track record of delivering large-scale, multi-geography technology programmes from initiation through to BAU transition

Strong technical background: hands-on exposure to architecture, cloud platforms, or enterprise systems (e.g. Oracle ecosystems)

Demonstrated experience in digital transformation, cloud migration, or enterprise application modernisation programmes

Excellent executive-level stakeholder management and communication skills

Experience managing external suppliers, third parties, and system integrators in a commercial context

Exposure to regulated industries BFSI, Capital Markets, or Enterprise Transformation environments strongly preferred

Familiarity with Oracle-based Enterprise Applications involving WebLogic / cloud transformation initiatives

Familiarity with Enterprise technology stacks e.g. Infrastructure, Virtual layer, Application Layer

Understanding and exposure to core Azure services like Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, App Services and Databases

Qualifications

PMP, Prince2 Practitioner, or MSP Practitioner Essential

Agile/SAFe certification (SPC, AgilePM, or equivalent) Desirable

Degree-level education in Technology, Business, or a related discipline Desirable