Cloud Delivery Manager

- Own delivery across one or more Core Cloud workstreams (platform, migration, security uplift, tooling, or service onboarding) - Translate strategy, roadmaps, and funding intent into executable delivery plans with clear milestones, dependencies, and tolerances - Drive delivery through discovery, alpha, beta, and live phases without losing momentum - Actively manage delivery risk, technical debt, and operational constraints - Operate confidently across senior stakeholders, leadership, architects, security teams, and commercial functions - Run delivery governance forums with clarity and pace, focusing on decisions, not theatre - Provide clear, honest delivery reporting (RAG, risks, mitigations, forecast confidence) - Challenge optimism bias and escalate early when delivery is at risk - Coordinate delivery across multiple suppliers and internal teams, ensuring clear ownership and zero gaps - Enable engineering teams by removing blockers rather than adding process drag - Foster a delivery culture that values predictability, quality, and operational readiness - Apply Agile pragmatically using Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches as appropriate - Ensure delivery aligns with GDS Service Manual, assurance gates, and NCSC expectations - Track delivery against funding envelopes and call out burn-rate risks early - Support commercial governance, change control, and scope management - Ensure value is demonstrable, not implied