Senior Delivery Manager
At Hometrack we are redefining the mortgage journey for lenders, brokers, and consumers by providing the market-leading digital valuation, property risk decisioning, and property data service. Our key commercial and go-to market segment is financial services, primarily mortgage lenders, including nine of the top 10 mortgage providers.
Hometrak is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to drive execution on two product streams that are central to our competitive advantage. Reporting to the Principal Delivery Manager, we need you to confidently navigate our complex teams toward embedding 60%+ property risk automation and ensuring our Automated Valuation Model (AVM) performance remains unmatchable in the market.
You will partner closely with Data Science, Analytics, and Engineering leadership to translate ambitious strategic goals into executable realities across these mixed-discipline teams. Success here means mastering complex capacity forecasting, proactively managing strategic external data supplier relationships, and providing senior stakeholders with unwavering confidence in delivery health.You will be the engine that ensures these high-profile streams move forward efficiently and predictably.
Key Responsibilities- Delivery Planning & Execution
- Own and maintain delivery plans for two product teams, ensuring timelines are realistic and visible.
- Track progress against agreed milestones and proactively identify risks, blockers, and scope changes.
- Facilitate sprint and release planning, retrospectives, and other delivery ceremonies where needed.
- Work closely with data engineers, software engineers and data scientists to ensure projects are delivered to plan and technical debt is managed effectively.
- Manage team capacity planning, ensuring appropriate resource allocation across ongoing and upcoming projects.
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Data Science Leads to forecast future resourcing needs and identify potential gaps early.
- Provide data-driven insights and reporting on utilisation, capacity, and delivery velocity.
- Cross-Team & Stakeholder Management
- Coordinate and manage dependencies between the product teams and other engineering or business functions.
- Act as the key point of contact for senior stakeholders regarding delivery status, risks, and mitigation plans.
- Communicate progress and delivery health through regular reports.
- Champion best practices in agile delivery and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to optimise delivery processes, tooling, and communication flows across teams.
- Support teams in adopting scalable delivery frameworks suitable for data and engineering environments.
- Leadership & Collaboration
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and empowerment within the product teams.
- Contribute to Hometrack’s wider delivery community, sharing learnings and aligning on consistent ways of working.
- Proven experience managing delivery across multiple agile data or engineering teams.
- Strong background in project and programme management within a technology or data-focused environment.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly.
- Analytical mindset with experience in forecasting, capacity planning, and delivery reporting.
- Practical understanding of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and their adaptation for data projects.
- Act as the primary point of contact for strategic data suppliers, building strong, collaborative partnerships that align with our delivery roadmap and business goals
- Proactively manage the supplier relationship life cycle, from onboarding and integration to renewal or offboarding
All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of ethnicity, colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, family or parental status, or time unemployed. We’re re-imagining the property industry to make it work for everyone, so we actively welcome applications from demographics that are underrepresented in technology.
Benefits- Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
- 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
- Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
- Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
- Cycle to work and electric car schemes
- Free Calm App membership
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Fertility Treatment Financial Support
- Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
- Gym on-site in London – or membership in regional offices
- 7.5% pension contribution by the company
- Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
- Talent referral bonus up to £5K