University Information Services (UIS) is the central engine delivering the digital services, IT infrastructure, business information, and powerful research computing services at the core of the University of Cambridge, a globally recognised institution.
The University has a bold, collaborative ambition to evolve its digital business, education, and research services, and the UIS team is driving this exciting transformation.
Why Join Us?
Strategic Impact:
Digital excellence is a key priority for University leadership, ensuring Cambridge maintains its world-leading status. You will be instrumental in deploying modern digital ways of working that enhance our global reputation for excellence in research, teaching, and learning.
Unique Collaboration:
This role offers an unparalleled opportunity to collaborate and interact with some of the finest minds in the world. You will share data, insight, and expertise to make a meaningful, direct difference to the University's success and mission.
Modern Delivery:
We work in multi-disciplinary teams, primarily leveraging Agile methodology, to effectively manage and deliver a complex portfolio of services, projects, and programmes.
Our Scale and Scope:
Serving 30,000+ Users:
We support a vast user base, including students, academics, and external partners.
Critical Infrastructure:
Our assets include one of the UK's most powerful research computing facilities and a massive 90-kilometre fibre network spanning the Cambridge city area.
Investment:
Community Building:
The CIO's team actively collaborates with IT and digital staff across all departmental teams, fostering a strong digital community of practice and specialist networks across Cambridge.
About the Role:
The Lead Delivery Manager will be aligned to a specific portfolio or domain, working in close collaboration with other organisational units and members of UIS to deliver user-facing digital services. You will be working alongside Heads of Product and Technical Lead/Solution Architects in a Three Amigos model to transform the portfolio and provide exemplary and positive delivery across the University.
Key responsibilities:
- Accountable for the delivery of complex products and services that are delivered by multiple teams or have high technical, organisational or reputational risk.
- Manage dependencies of varying complexity.
- Manage complex budget(s) and commercial processes.
- Define and oversee the delivery strategy for multiple products or services.
- Provide delivery oversight and expertise to multiple teams in your portfolio or domain area.
- Work closely with delivery managers to remove obstacles, maintain a smooth workflow and continuous delivery.
- Line manage and coach delivery or senior delivery managers.
Experience needed:
- Experience building and maintaining multiple multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
- Proven track-record managing delivery of digital products and services and leading the procurement and delivery of complex third-party / software-as-a-services products.
- Ability to appropriately apply core delivery and programme management skills to a range of delivery settings, applying an agile-first approach.
- Ability to build strong and productive relationships.
We welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for part-time working or other flexible working arrangements.
We particularly welcome applications from women and candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our institution.
Queries should be directed to recruitment@uis.cam.ac.uk in the first instance, quoting reference VC48223.
Please quote reference VC48223 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
Key information
Department/location
University Information Services
Salary
Up to £80,004
Reference
VC48223
Category
Date published
10 December 2025
Closing date
15 March 2026