Technical Delivery Lead

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Causeway
Middlesbrough
GBP 40,000 - 80,000
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4 days ago
Job description
Technical Delivery Lead

Remote – Travel to Middlesbrough preferred, when required
14-Month Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover)

Do you want to help shape software that impacts thousands of lives?

Who are we?
We’re the UK’s #1 construction-specific software company, delivering end-to-end digital solutions across the entire build lifecycle. Our platforms power the projects that shape our world—used by thousands of customers and impacting millions of lives.

With teams across the UK, Europe, and India, we’re driving an ambitious product roadmap centered on large-scale transformation, continuous delivery excellence, and global expansion. If you're passionate about people, process, and technology, we want to hear from you.

Purpose of the Role

We’re looking for a Technical Delivery Lead to join us on a 14-month fixed-term contract, covering maternity leave. This hybrid role blends agile delivery leadership with hands-on technical acumen.

You’ll lead a multi-disciplined software team, ensuring delivery of high-quality, scalable software using Agile methodologies. While not expected to code, your technical background enables effective conversations with architects, engineers, and stakeholders, bringing clarity, coordination, and confidence to every sprint.

You’ll report to the Development Director and work closely with product owners, tech leads, and other delivery leads across the business.

Key Responsibilities

Product Delivery

  • Champion Agile/Scrum methodologies and facilitate ceremonies (planning, standups, retros, etc.).
  • Partner with the Product Owner to shape backlogs and define sprint deliverables.
  • Monitor team velocity, sprint health, and release planning.
  • Remove delivery blockers and manage risk escalation.
  • Communicate technical goals clearly to both engineers and business stakeholders.
  • Contribute to improvements in cross-team collaboration and agile maturity.

Team Leadership & People Management

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of 10 including developers, QA, and tech leads.
  • Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and development planning.
  • Build a high-performing team culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and quality.
  • Foster continuous improvement through coaching, mentoring, and peer support.
What We’re Looking For

Experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead, or Technical Delivery Manager
Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
Background in software development or engineering (e.g. ex-developer or tech lead)
Able to engage in technical discussions—comfortable with architecture, cloud (AWS), and deployment concepts
Strong stakeholder communication, problem-solving, and delivery focus
Experience with people leadership and performance management
Comfortable managing dependencies across multiple teams and release cycles.

What You’ll Be Working With
  • Multi-functional Agile teams (Developers, Tech Leads, QA)
  • Jira, Confluence, Agile planning tools
  • Projects touching modern software architectures and cloud platforms
  • Close collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure teams
What You Get from Us

If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Diversity & Inclusion

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do; it improves every aspect of our business.

Our Values

We are United – Better together
We are Agile – Be the change
We are Trusted – Do the right thing
We are Driven – Make it happen

Benefits
  • 25 days annual leave + public holidays (increases with service)
  • Matched pension contributions (4%)
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance & income protection
  • Access to our award-winning benefits platform
  • Fitness club allowance (£100/year)
  • Paid volunteering and study leave
  • Mental health support with 24/7 EAP
  • Dell product discounts
  • Car scheme
Environmental Commitment

Like all responsible companies, Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.

Apply now and help shape the future of construction tech.
Let’s build something brilliant—together.

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