Delivery Lead - Belfast
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000
Location: Belfast (Hybrid)
Contract Type: Permanent
Do you want to lead delivery for one of Belfast's most exciting FinTech success stories?
Want to take ownership of complex projects that power global trading platforms?
Looking for a role that blends leadership, delivery excellence, and real business impact?
The Role
This global FinTech has chosen Belfast as a key technology hub, driving the next generation of innovation within its global trading platforms. As Delivery Lead, you'll play a critical role in ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery of technology solutions used by clients across the world.
You'll manage and support cross-functional teams - both local and remote - while ensuring alignment between business priorities and delivery outcomes. Working closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders, you'll remove blockers, manage dependencies, and keep projects running smoothly.
This is a highly visible role where your decisions will directly influence technology delivery for some of the world's most sophisticated trading systems.
What's In It For You?
- £70,000 - £80,000 base salary
- Hybrid working (3 days in office)
- Annual performance bonus
- Private medical cover, life assurance, and enhanced pension
- Opportunities to lead global projects across modern, agile teams
- Work with cutting-edge financial and trading technologies
- Clear progression into senior leadership roles
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead planning, estimation, and delivery of the team's technical roadmap
- Ensure realistic, transparent project plans and communicate progress effectively to stakeholders
- Manage dependencies and remove delivery impediments to optimise team efficiency
- Oversee risk management and change control for multiple projects
- Drive continuous improvement in product development processes and delivery workflows
- Collaborate with global teams across multiple time zones
- Act as Scrum Master when required and coach teams in agile best practices
- Coordinate between technology and business functions to align priorities
- Support User Acceptance Testing and stakeholder sign-off
- Facilitate workshops and working groups to capture clear, actionable outcomes
About You
You're an experienced Delivery Lead or Agile Delivery Manager with a track record of delivering large-scale technology change within financial services or complex enterprise environments. You're proactive, organised, and capable of steering multiple teams towards shared goals.
Essential Experience:
- 5+ years in a Delivery Lead / Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master role
- Deep understanding of agile and lean principles, with proven ability to coach and influence teams
- Budget accountability for projects or programmes over £1m
- Experience managing distributed teams, including vendors and offshore partners
- Strong dependency and risk management experience
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills
- Experience in financial markets or trading technology
Desirable:
- Hands-on exposure to trading or derivatives platforms
- Experience within fast-paced FinTech or capital markets environments
Why Join?
This organisation has one of the strongest reputations in Belfast for retention and progression. Employees are trusted with autonomy, supported to grow, and empowered to make meaningful impact on high-profile projects. You'll join a mature, delivery-focused culture that values ownership, innovation, and collaboration.