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Delivery Lead

Role overview

Summary

This role is for a Delivery Lead responsible for overseeing project execution and ensuring compliance with quality and budget standards. You will work with various stakeholders and manage project resources while supporting team development within a company that specializes in software and data solutions.

Qualifications

  • Proven track record of delivering complex software projects and managing multiple concurrent accounts without material delivery risk.
  • Strong capability in owning project P&Ls, tracking margins against baselines, reviewing SOWs, and building estimates.
  • Builds trust with senior client stakeholders to act as a trusted advisor rather than just a project manager.
  • Experienced in line-management, providing direct feedback, and supporting team growth and well-being.
  • Possesses a technical background familiar with agile methodologies, alongside a strong grasp of client industries, objectives, and company services.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee scope, quality, timeline, budget, and compliance requirements for every assigned project.
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day contact, promptly resolving escalations and raising early risk awareness for leadership.
  • Track project revenue, costs, and margins against baselines while reviewing SOWs and supporting estimates.
  • Coordinate third-party suppliers and direct technical, PM, and BA project resources.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Team Management

About the company

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Parvana

  • Staffing & Recruiting
  • 11–50
Parvana has established itself as an IT Recruitment Experts in South Africa, UK, Europe, Australia & the USA. We specialise in fulfilling the IT & Telecomms Permanent & Temporary Recruitment needs of many of our Technology, Software, Internet & Consulting customers worldwide.

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Job description

This is a remote position.

Location: South African | Work Type: Hybrid | Job ID: J107298

About our client:
Our client develops and supports software and data solutions across a variety of industries. They want you to get ahead of the market and stay there. They offer a combination of plug and play products that can be integrated with existing systems and processes and can also be customised to client needs. Their capabilities extend to big data engineering and bespoke software development, solutions are available as both cloud-based and hosted.

What you will be doing:
  • Oversee scope, quality, timeline, budget, and compliance requirements for every assigned project.
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day contact, promptly resolving escalations and raising early risk awareness for leadership.
  • Track project revenue, costs, and margins against baselines while reviewing SOWs and supporting estimates.
  • Coordinate third-party suppliers like Databricks and direct technical, PM, and BA project resources.
  • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, well-being check-ins, and manage leave approvals.
  • Identify upsell and expansion opportunities while consistently applying and refining delivery processes.

What our client is looking for:
  • Proven track record of delivering complex software projects and managing multiple concurrent accounts without material delivery risk.
  • Strong capability in owning project P&Ls, tracking margins against baselines, reviewing SOWs, and building estimates.
  • Builds trust with senior client stakeholders to act as a trusted advisor rather than just a project manager.
  • Experienced in line-management, providing direct feedback, and supporting team growth and well-being.
  • Possesses a technical background familiar with agile methodologies, alongside a strong grasp of client industries, objectives, and company services.
  • Approachable, calm under pressure, authentic, and familiar with compliance standards such as SOC and ISO.

For a more comprehensive list of opportunities that we have on offer, do visit our website - https://www.parvana.co.uk/careers

Requirements

Delivery Lead, Software Delivery, P&L, Agile, Stakeholder Management, Big Data, SOW, Line Management, Compliance, Software Solutions

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