Head of Delivery

Why this role why now

Endava Australia is strengthening how delivery is led across increasingly complex digital engineering and transformation work. This role is for a delivery leader who wants to shape how work is formed mobilised and run with strong partnership across client commercial delivery and discipline leadership.

The opportunity

We are seeking a Head of Delivery to lead delivery performance across Endava Australias live portfolio. This is a senior leadership role focused on delivery health forecast integrity delivered margin governance client satisfaction and team health across signed engagements delivered by Australia including APAC work where Australia holds material delivery leadership staffing accountability or delivery risk.

Working closely with Country leadership Client Partners and Commercial leadership you will help ensure that work is executable appropriately staffed commercially controlled and governed to a consistent standard. You will create clearer visibility earlier intervention and stronger alignment around the conditions needed for successful delivery.

What you will shape

You will be the senior delivery voice across the live portfolio helping teams make good delivery decisions early and keeping engagements set up for success. You will shape the operating rhythm for delivery health portfolio reviews escalation and recovery and bring a practical delivery lens to Opportunity Review and mobilisation.

Where a deal team model or delivery assumption creates material risk you will work with Client Partners Commercial leadership and delivery leaders to adjust the approach before it becomes a delivery problem. When engagements need support you will lead the delivery response align the right people around the recovery plan and keep progress visible.

This role works alongside the Head of Project Delivery Management. The Head of Delivery focuses on live delivery outcomes; the Head of PDM focuses on the discipline capability and standards that support those outcomes. Together the roles connect portfolio execution with long-term delivery capability.

Qualifications :

Essential experience and skills

• Significant experience leading complex delivery portfolios in a consulting digital engineering or professional services environment.
• Strong track record in delivery governance commercial delivery control and intervention in complex or at-risk engagements.
• Proven ability to manage delivered margin forecast integrity staffing decisions and delivery risk across multiple accounts programmes or engagements.
• Experience across multiple delivery and commercial models including time and materials fixed price and outcome-based delivery.
• Strong commercial and contractual judgement including experience reviewing delivery assumptions team structures statements of work change control and governance approaches.
• Demonstrated leadership of senior delivery professionals including coaching performance management capability uplift and succession planning.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior client and internal leaders.
• Strong judgement pace and pragmatism with the ability to balance governance discipline with commercial agility.
• Exceptional communication skills and the confidence to lead senior conversations when delivery performance commercial exposure or client confidence is at stake.

Desirable experience

• Experience leading delivery across Australia or APAC including distributed and multi-shore delivery models.
• Exposure to enterprise technology digital transformation software engineering or data-led delivery environments.
• Experience establishing delivery governance health reporting delivery dashboards or portfolio operating rhythms.
• Experience working alongside discipline workforce planning PMO commercial and client partner functions.
• Relevant professional certifications or frameworks such as Agile Scrum PMP PRINCE2 MSP SAFe or SFIA are helpful but not a substitute for proven delivery leadership.

Additional Information :

How the role fits

The role partners closely with Client Partners and Commercial leadership with primary focus on execution quality and delivery confidence across signed work. You will influence growth by helping shape executable work building client confidence and ensuring delivery commitments are realistic and supported.

You will work closely with the Head of Project Delivery Management to ensure that live delivery outcomes and medium-term discipline capability reinforce each other. The role requires close partnership and clear ownership: you focus on the live portfolio and the delivery conditions required for signed work to succeed.

Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

• Finance: Competitive salary package share plan company performance bonuses value-based recognition awards referral bonus;   
• Career Development: Career coaching global career opportunities non-linear career paths internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
• Learning Opportunities: Complex projects rotations internal tech communities training certifications coaching online learning platforms subscriptions pass-it-on sessions workshops conferences;
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work and flexible working hours employee assistance programme;
• Health: Global internal wellbeing programme access to wellbeing apps;
• Community: Global internal tech communities hobby clubs and interest groups inclusion and diversity programmes events and celebrations.

Additional Local Benefits 

• Monthly Lifestyle Allowance: Contribution towards health and wellbeing activities like gym memberships.  
• Novated Leasing: Pre-tax car leasing benefit for new and used cars. 
• Loyalty Leave: Receive an additional day of leave on your 3rd 4th and 5th work anniversaries accumulating up to a maximum of 3 extra days of leave per year.
• Inclusive Parental Leave Policy: 12 weeks of primary carers leave and 4 weeks of secondary carers leave. 
• Work From Anywhere: In addition to our hybrid working policy we also offer 20 days of working from anywhere per year. Ideal for an extended trip to get away from the city or visiting loved ones.

At Endava were committed to creating an open inclusive and respectful environment where everyone feels safe valued and empowered to be their best. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds experiences and perspectivesbecause we know that inclusive teams help us deliver smarter more innovative solutions for our customers. Hiring decisions are based on merit skills qualifications and potential. If you need adjustments or support during the recruitment process please let us know.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time