Delivery Lead

Senior Delivery Lead

St. Louis, MO – 3 days/week onsite

Rates: $93/hour on C2C

The Senior Delivery Lead is accountable for end-to-end delivery of large-scale, complex technology programmes across multiple geographic zones. Operating as a trusted adviser to senior client stakeholders, this role bridges business objectives and delivery execution — ensuring seamless programme governance, commercial rigour, and sustained delivery excellence across the full programme lifecycle.

The role demands a blend of deep technical programme management expertise, consultancy experience, executive stakeholder management and people enablement. Operating across engineering, product, architecture, and business change functions in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments they will be able to engage and challenge at all levels to ensure delivery on time and budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery across multi-region / multi-zone technology teams and programmes
• Define and embed programme governance: planning cadences, RAID management, quality controls, and escalation frameworks
• Lead integrated planning across agile and waterfall workstreams, managing scope, resource, and cross-team dependencies
• Ensure adherence to delivery timelines, quality standards, internal and customer governance as well as agreed delivery objectives to tight deadlines throughout the programme lifecycle
• Drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency across delivery processes and tooling
• Ensure a clear communication strategy and standard across the programmes and teams, including executive reporting and cross-functional updates
• Facilitation of workshops and requirements discovery bringing teams together to align on value driven business outcomes
• Maintain sufficient technical depth — across architecture, cloud, or enterprise systems — to challenge estimates, assess risks, and make informed trade-off decisions
• Ensure all deliverables meet architectural standards, security requirements, and regulatory obligations
• Foster a high-performance, inclusive delivery culture with clear accountability and psychological safety
• Act as a role model across the teams and delivery, with awareness of individuals wellbeing to enable and foster a combined delivery mentality.

Required Skills Experience

• 12–18+ years of technology delivery experience, with at least 5 years in senior programme or delivery lead roles
• Demonstrable consultancy experience: engagement shaping, client advisory, commercial management, and pre-sales / bid contribution
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale, multi-geography technology programmes from initiation through to BAU transition
• Strong technical background: hands-on exposure to architecture, cloud platforms, or enterprise systems (e.g. Oracle ecosystems)
• Demonstrated experience in digital transformation, cloud migration, or enterprise application modernisation programmes
• Excellent executive-level stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience managing external suppliers, third parties, and system integrators in a commercial context
• Familiarity with Oracle-based Enterprise Applications involving WebLogic / cloud transformation initiatives
• Familiarity with Enterprise technology stacks e.g.