Softwire
Delivery Lead & Product Owner (Contract)
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Delivery Lead & Product Owner (Hybrid Role) - Outside IR35 - Contract
About the Role
We’re looking for a hybrid Delivery Lead / Product Owner to work on a new engagement with one of our FS&I clients.
Your role will include both Delivery Leadership (responsible for the successful day-to-day delivery of the team) and Product Ownership for a technical data product (turning client priorities into well-defined roadmaps and recommendations) working alongside a Technical Lead and Principal.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the day-to-day running and execution of the team, ensuring we’re on track to achieve our goals
- Bringing together a common view of the wider Finance and Data Office portfolio of change, building a shared view of the roadmap, dependencies and expected value.
- Working with Finance stakeholders through workshops and engagement sessions to determine their future requirements under this architecture, and consolidating down to an agreed roadmap
A lot of this is about people. You’ll run workshops, facilitate decisions and manage discussions between stakeholders with competing demands – working in an agile-first way and keeping things moving at pace, while making sure everyone feels heard.
This is a hands-on role, with tasks that will vary day-to-day, so you’ll need to take a pragmatic approach.
It’s a London-based role, on site at least three days a week aligned with the wider team and client needs, split between our Softwire office and the client in Aldgate.
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Your Experience
- Have experience in both Delivery Lead & Product Owner roles within Financial Services, including working with senior stakeholders, and have led work that spans the full business change lifecycle – not just the technology build, but the people, process and organisational change needed to make it stick.
- Have worked alongside Finance functions and across complex data – understanding it well enough to make sense of competing initiatives, shape decisions and bring order to a portfolio of change.
- Have helped clients bring competing initiatives into a single roadmap and prioritise them – weighing options on cost, ease, risk and value to agree what gets done first.
- Have run a product backlog through to delivery, working closely with a Product Owner on definition and prioritisation, and kept the team delivering at a steady pace.
- Have planned and facilitated workshops to explore problem statements and reach decisions with the people in the room.
- Have experience in process analysis and optimisation, including techniques such as Value Stream Mapping to identify waste and drive meaningful improvements.
- Have worked across programmes involving multiple teams, using scaled agile approaches such as SAFe, LeSS or Scrum at Scale, and are familiar with lean and agile tools and principles.
- Have a history of solving problems, managing risks and overcoming challenges.
- Have worked in multidisciplinary teams, including directly with developers and technical leads.
- Show evidence of a dedication to continuous improvement – both supporting and coaching a team and in your own ways of working.
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Your Approach
- Are comfortable taking the initiative and working with ambiguity.
- Are able to ramp-up quickly to support the initial 8 week phase.
- Can communicate clearly, including explaining technical concepts to people from diverse backgrounds in a way that is meaningful to them.
- Have an interest in how business change is run, so technology and change support each other.
- Are able to effectively engage and collaborate with a variety of client stakeholders, including when they have low availability.
- Understand the commercial dynamics of client engagements and can balance client outcomes with Softwire’s business interests.
£600-725 per day inside IR35
Start date: 05/10/2026
End date: 01/02/2027
About Softwire
Softwire is a leading UK technology and strategy consultancy. From enterprise to government, we help visionary organisations turn strategic ambitions into results at scale. Our practices cover AI transformation, data platforms, systems engineering advanced CX and experience design.
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