Academic ConnectLead Delivery Manager
University Information Services (UIS) is the central engine delivering the digital services, IT infrastructure, business information, and powerful research computing services at the core of the University of Cambridge, a globally recognised institution.
The University has a bold, collaborative ambition to evolve its digital business, education, and research services, and the UIS team is driving this exciting transformation.
Why Join Us?
Strategic Impact:
Digital excellence is a key priority for University leadership, ensuring Cambridge maintains its world-leading status. You will be instrumental in deploying modern digital ways of working that enhance our global reputation for excellence in research, teaching, and learning.
Unique Collaboration:
This role offers an unparalleled opportunity to collaborate and interact with some of the finest minds in the world. You will share data, insight, and expertise to make a meaningful, direct difference to the University's success and mission.
Modern Delivery:
We work in multi-disciplinary teams, primarily leveraging Agile methodology, to effectively manage and deliver a complex portfolio of services, projects, and programmes.
Our Scale and Scope:
Serving 30,000+ Users:
We support a vast user base, including students, academics, and external partners.
Critical Infrastructure:
Our assets include one of the UK's most powerful research computing facilities and a massive 90-kilometre fibre network spanning the Cambridge city area.
Investment:
Community Building:
The CIO's team actively collaborates with IT and digital staff across all departmental teams, fostering a strong digital community of practice and specialist networks across Cambridge.
About the Role:
The Lead Delivery Manager will be aligned to a specific portfolio or domain, working in close collaboration with other organisational units and members of UIS to deliver user-facing digital services. You will be working alongside Heads of Product and Technical Lead/Solution Architects in a Three Amigos model to transform the portfolio and provide exemplary and positive delivery across the University.
Key responsibilities:
- Accountable for the delivery of complex products and services that are delivered by multiple teams or have high technical, organisational or reputational risk.
- Manage dependencies of varying complexity.
- Manage complex budget(s) and commercial processes.
- Define and oversee the delivery strategy for multiple products or services.
- Provide delivery oversight and expertise to multiple teams in your portfolio or domain area.
- Work closely with delivery managers to remove obstacles, maintain a smooth workflow and continuous delivery.
- Line manage and coach delivery or senior delivery managers.
Experience needed:
- Experience building and maintaining multiple multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
- Proven track-record managing delivery of digital products and services and leading the procurement and delivery of complex third-party / software-as-a-services products.
- Ability to appropriately apply core delivery and programme management skills to a range of delivery settings, applying an agile-first approach.
- Ability to build strong and productive relationships.
We welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for part-time working or other flexible working arrangements.
We particularly welcome applications from women and candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our institution.
Queries should be directed to recruitment@uis.cam.ac.uk in the first instance, quoting reference VC48223.
Please quote reference VC48223 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
Key information
Department/location
University Information Services
Salary
Up to £80,004
Reference
VC48223
Category
Date published
10 December 2025
Closing date
15 March 2026
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