A look into the role 

As an Engineering Delivery Manager at GT, you will: 

Team leadership, people and resourcing 

• Line-manage and develop a group of engineers, through regular one to ones, honest feedback and real career conversations. This is your primary focus, and your reports may be deployed across more than one delivery pod 

• Own the growth, wellbeing and performance of the people you manage, drawing on input from the pods and leads they work with day to day 

• Build trust and psychological safety with your people, so they feel able to ask questions, admit what they do not know, and do their best work 

• Lead hiring, onboarding and retention for the people you manage 

• Own capacity and resource allocation for one or more pods, making sure the right engineers, skills and balance of experience are available to support what the pod is being asked to deliver, and being clear when capacity, skills or dependencies mean something cannot land as planned 

• Support everyone in the pods you lead to do their best work regardless of who manages them, and feed back to their managers on how they are getting on 

Agile practice and delivery coaching 

• Act as the agile practitioner for your pods, choosing and implementing the ways of working that fit, and coaching each team to run its own ceremonies well 

• Use agile and lean techniques to keep improving the delivery cycle, and facilitate directly where a pod is not yet able to do that for itself 

• Raise agile maturity across engineering by sharing what works between pods, so each one is not solving the same problem on its own 

• Draw on the Agile Community of Practice for professional guidance, peer support and craft development, separate from your line-management reporting into the Head of Engineering 

Delivery support and blocker resolution 

• Use your knowledge of the software delivery lifecycle to spot blockers and delivery risks early, and remove the ones the pod cannot resolve itself 

• Track flow metrics and use them to drive real improvement in how the pod works, rather than as a reporting exercise 

• Partner with the Product Manager in each pod. Priority is owned by the Product Manager, and capacity, resource allocation and skills fit are your call 

• Take on delivery ownership for pods and teams that do not have a dedicated Product Manager, so delivery always has a clear owner 

• Own capacity, resourcing and skills escalation for the pods you support, up to the Head of Engineering, so risks are visible early and trade-offs are clear 

Partnership, community and AI-native delivery 

• Work in genuine partnership with the Tech Leads and Product Managers in your pods, and with your fellow managers, succeeding through them rather than around them 

• Draw on the engineering management community of practice for your own craft development and peer support, and share patterns across pods 

• Help your pods make the most of AI-native delivery, making sure they have the capacity and the discipline to review AI-assisted work properly, because review quality is the real constraint, not build speed 

Knowing you're right for us 

Joining us as an Engineering Delivery Manager, the minimum criteria you'll need is proven experience line-managing and developing engineers, and running agile delivery for a team or pod, including capacity and resource allocation. It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don't worry if you don't tick every box, we'll help you develop along the way. 

• People-first leadership, with real strength in coaching, honest feedback, wellbeing and inclusive team-building 

• Comfort working in a matrix, developing people who are deployed across different teams and leading one or more delivery pods whose members you do not all line-manage 

• A track record of capacity planning, resource allocation, skills mapping, flow and unblocking in a sustainable delivery environment 

• Hands-on agile leadership: choosing and implementing the right ways of working, coaching a team to improve them, and using flow metrics to make delivery genuinely better 

• Confidence leading in a fast-moving, AI-native environment where the ways of working are still forming 

• Strong partnership skills, succeeding through your Tech Lead and Product Manager rather than around them 

• A background in software engineering, enough to earn engineers' trust and understand their world, without needing to do their job 

• Familiarity with modern DevOps and agentic development, for example Azure DevOps and Claude Code 

Knowing we're right for you 

Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential. 

Our open and accessible culture means you'll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That's why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work. 

We're also committed to supporting you through different life stages, with a range of family friendly and wider leave policies. You can find full details of our reward, benefits and leave policies on our website: Reward and benefits. 

Beyond the job 

Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you're with outside of work matter, that's why we're happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we'll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.