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Delivery Principal – Public Sector

United Kingdom, London 92100.00 - 103700.00 GBP / Year · Job Posted January 23, 2026
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We are looking for an experienced delivery principal with a strong track record of delivering complex software programmes for public sector clients, gained within a consultancy or agency environment. You will bring hands-on experience across discovery, alpha and beta, with a solid understanding of government service standards and user-centred design. As a delivery principal, you will lead a portfolio of projects and engagements and be accountable for the commercial performance, delivery outcomes, and team success across your work.

Job Responsibility

  • Delivering high value services to our clients
  • Accountable for the success of projects
  • Lead delivery directly or through managing delivery, technical and design leads
  • Ensure client satisfaction, meet Softwire’s commercial goals, and ensure a happy team
  • Guide clients through the delivery process, shaping the engagement for success
  • Inspire trust with senior stakeholders, acting as the most senior line of project escalation
  • Accelerating the careers of others
  • Highly experienced people manager
  • Bring out the best in the people they’re responsible for
  • Take responsibility for the “performance contract” of multiple employees
  • Help Delivery Leads mentor and manage more junior colleagues
  • Generating additional business for Softwire
  • Look for opportunities to build and expand existing accounts
  • Ensure clients receive an excellent service
  • Meet prospective clients, devise project plans and technical approaches, prepare written proposals and in-person pitches

Requirements

  • Extensive experience of successfully delivering large software development projects within the public sector directly or via agency experience
  • Prior agency experience and familiar with reconciling commercial and quality drivers in a client-focused environment
  • Excellent client management and relationship building skills
  • Strong expertise in the public sector, particularly in the discovery, alpha and beta phases
  • Comprehensive knowledge of government service standards and user-centered design
  • Experience in supporting others through these processes
  • Familiar with how software is created
  • A demonstrable track record of successfully delivering challenging projects / programmes
  • Experience working in a delivery leadership role within an agency, consultancy environment or direct government department
  • Experience managing teams, with accountability for the work of 10+ onshore staff
  • Strong knowledge of modern software engineering practice (SDLC) and an awareness of technical approaches and trends
  • An interest in technology and how things are created

Nice to have

  • Exposure to pre-sales
  • Ability to attract business through personal reputation in the industry (e.g., thought leadership, speaking at conferences, and personal networks)

What we offer

  • Profit share scheme (average of between £15,000 and £20,000)
  • Pension: Additional 5% of salary
  • 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy and sell)
  • Time off for company-wide morale activities
  • Time off for charitable / CSR activities
  • Free annual eye test
  • Opt-in health insurance
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Payroll charity donations

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