Adam Jones
Senior Consultant
SW Delivery Manager
Belgium
Apply by 24 Apr 2026
800.0 - Per Day
Job Ref.: 56589
Job Type: Contract
Job Description
The Software Delivery Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing end-to-end software delivery for complex, multi-component systems. The role ensures predictable delivery outcomes across multiple teams and stakeholders, encompassing roadmap execution, release management, quality assurance, and operational readiness. The Software Delivery Manager acts as the primary owner of delivery commitments, enabling alignment between product management, architecture, development, test, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Delivery governance
- Own delivery plans, milestones, and dependencies for complex systems and platforms
- Establish and manage delivery governance cadences (planning, tracking, steering)
- Proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks, impediments, and resourcing gaps
- Program and release management
- Coordinate multiple parallel development streams toward synchronized releases
- Define and manage release schedules, freeze criteria, and acceptance gates
- Ensure system integration readiness and cross-team alignment
- Stakeholder management
- Act as a central point of contact for delivery status, priorities, and escalations
- Communicate progress to senior management and key stakeholders in a structured manner
- Quality and compliance
- Ensure delivered software meets functional, non-functional, safety, and regulatory requirements
- Oversee defect management, regression strategy, and release acceptance
- Process and methodology
- Define, implement, and continuously improve delivery processes (Agile/Scrum, DevOps)
- Support maturity of engineering practices across teams
- People and coordination
- Coordinate cross-functional teams (development, architecture, QA, DevOps, operations)
- Support workload planning and capacity management
- Mentor teams to ensure disciplined execution and delivery accountability
Required Experience and Qualifications
- Proven experience managing software delivery for complex, distributed systems
- Demonstrated success in program or delivery management roles (Software Delivery Manager, SW Project Manager, SW Technical Manager, Program Manager, or similar)
- Strong understanding of systems engineering concepts
- Hands-on experience with Agile at scale (Scrum or equivalent)
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and conflict-resolution skills
- Ability to manage uncertainty, ambiguity, and evolving requirements
Desired Skills
- Technical background (software engineering, systems engineering, or equivalent)
- Strong analytical mindset and risk-based decision-making capability