Technical Delivery Manager (Data)

Location: Hybrid, York, United Kingdom; Lisbon is also listed as another location.

Company

hirify.global is an international specialist insurer focused on specialist insurance products and data-driven business improvement.

What you will do

• Support the product vision and roadmap while owning a prioritised, delivery-ready backlog.
• Translate business problems into epics and user stories with context, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead delivery planning and coordination across multidisciplinary teams, managing milestones, capacity, dependencies, risks, blockers, issues, and scope changes.
• Coordinate technical discovery, design assurance, testing, release readiness, and transition into live service.
• Ensure architecture, security, data governance, non-functional requirements, operational controls, and residual risks are addressed.
• Connect business priorities with technical execution, manage delivery partners, and promote accountable, collaborative, continuously improving ways of working.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Delivery Manager or in a comparable Product development role, including strong backlog management and user-story and acceptance-criteria skills.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery, estimation, planning, dependency and risk management, testing, release readiness, and transition into live service.
• Working understanding of architecture, integrations, environments, security, data governance, and non-functional requirements, with the technical credibility to explain delivery trade-offs.
• Strong judgement and outcome focus, with the ability to make scope, priority, and sequencing decisions while balancing business value, delivery constraints, and long-term product health.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills across business, technical, and senior audiences, including constructive challenge and management of competing priorities.
• Experience leading delivery in a complex organisation, with accountability for backlog, planning, and end-to-end coordination from discovery through release and support.
• Experience influencing across organisational boundaries, resolving complex dependencies, and balancing value, risk, technical sustainability, and operational readiness.
• Ability to lead complex delivery through ambiguity, remove blockers, maintain momentum, and preserve quality.

Nice to have

• Product experience, Scrum, Agile delivery, project delivery, or similar accreditation.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar documentation and collaboration tools.
• Knowledge of data platforms, reporting and analytics products, governance, data quality, supplier management, or BAU product operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working designed to support work-life balance, with the model set by the team.
• Inclusive and diverse working environment.
• Culture that encourages creative thinking, constructive challenge, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Permanent, full-time employment.