HM Revenue & Customs
Senior IT Delivery Manager

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Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stratford, Telford - Plaza 1 & 2, Worthing
Please note that due to workforce controls, Liverpool, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and Stratford are only available to existing HMRC staff in these locations. HMRC staff based in Reading can also apply to move to Stratford in line with Migration path. HMRC staff based in 100PS can also apply to move to Stratford.
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As a Senior IT Delivery Manager (G7) within HMRC’s Chief Digital & Information Office (CDIO), you will lead the delivery of complex, high impact IT and digital change across the Borders and Trade (B&T) portfolio.
Operating in one of HMRC’s most complex delivery environments, you will be accountable for ensuring delivery outcomes are achieved safely, securely and at pace across multi-team and multi-supplier landscapes. You will lead delivery planning, governance and commercial oversight, providing senior stakeholders with clear insight into delivery confidence, risks and trade-offs.
This role requires strong leadership, sound judgement and the ability to operate effectively in complex and ambiguous environments, balancing pace, cost, quality and operational impact at scale.
Job Description
You will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of large and/or complex IT initiatives, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and maintaining delivery confidence across teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
You will operate as a senior delivery leader, setting direction, managing risks and dependencies, and acting as the primary escalation point for delivery issues and decisions beyond team control.
Working across CDIO, business stakeholders and delivery partners, you will influence delivery approaches, optimise ways of working and ensure that delivery is governed effectively and outcomes are achieved sustainably.
You will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of large and/or complex IT initiatives, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and maintaining delivery confidence across teams, suppliers and stakeholders.
You will operate as a senior delivery leader, setting direction, managing risks and dependencies, and acting as the primary escalation point for delivery issues and decisions beyond team control.
Working across CDIO, business stakeholders and delivery partners, you will influence delivery approaches, optimise ways of working and ensure that delivery is governed effectively and outcomes are achieved sustainably.
Person specification
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of large and/or complex IT or digital initiatives.
- Own delivery planning, governance and reporting, providing clear visibility of delivery confidence, risks and performance.
- Identify, manage and escalate risks, issues, dependencies and delivery decisions.
- Provide commercial and financial leadership, including cost control, forecasting and supplier challenge.
- Lead delivery across multidisciplinary and multi-supplier environments, ensuring alignment and delivery momentum.
- Act as the primary escalation point for delivery challenges beyond team control.
- Lead and develop Delivery Managers and teams, building delivery capability and performance.
- Influence senior stakeholders to support prioritisation, trade-offs and strategic decision-making.
- Apply and adapt Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies to optimise delivery outcomes.
- Contribute to the Delivery Management profession, sharing best practice and continuous improvement.
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Essential Criteria
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Leading end-to-end delivery of large, complex IT or digital change, with accountability for outcomes.
- Experience operating within complex governance environments, including delivery planning, risk, issue and dependency management, and assurance.
- Strong commercial and financial management experience, including forecasting, cost control and supplier management.
- Experience leading delivery across multi-supplier and multidisciplinary environments.
- Ability to maintain and communicate delivery confidence, including managing trade-offs, risks and priorities.
- Experience leading and developing teams, including line management and capability development.
- Ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders, supporting decision-making in complex delivery environments.
Further Location Information
Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.
Office closures
For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
These Sites Are
- Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
- Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford
You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.
Leeds Locations
Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.
Salary and Benefits
Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.
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Selection process details
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history, qualification details and previous experiences, up to a maximum of your last 3 roles. Give a brief summary of what you delivered and any key achievement in each role ( 150 words max per role).
- A 1000-word Personal Statement to demonstrate Essential Criteria and Person Specification as outlined in the advert.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Sift
Prior to applications being sifted candidates will be asked to complete an additional IKM assessment. Candidates will be sent details of the assessment once the advert has closed. This assessment is a pass or fail and only those who pass will be considered at the sift stage.
At full sift your CV and your Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
During the panel interview, you will be asked Experience based questions. You should apply the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) technique when delivering examples. You are encouraged to prepare demonstrable examples of your experience ahead of the interview to ensure meaningfulness and completeness.
Interviews will take place via video link.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’.
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Exceptionally, candidates who are not successful at this grade may be considered for appointment to similar roles at a lower grade where the eligibility criteria are met. If this applies, we will contact you directly.
Sponsorship
We have assessed this role against both Home Office and HMRC criteria and we are unable to offer sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa. This means the vacancy is not open to applicants who require visa sponsorship.
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