Technical Delivery Manager (Migration)

Royal London is a Financial Services company with a difference. As the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, we're owned by our members and work for their benefit, not for shareholder profits. We've grown rapidly and have been recognised as one of the UK's top rated places to work.

Today, Royal London has over £170 billion of assets under management, and around 4,000 employees working in five offices across the UK and Ireland. As an organisation, they have worked hard to become experts in specialist markets, building a trusted brand, with plenty of awards to show for it.

We've worked hard to become experts in our specialist markets, building a trusted brand - and our teams have plenty of awards to show for it. Whatever team you're interested in joining and whatever role you play, we'll help you to make a difference.

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

We partner with Royal London to support their contingent Recruitment processes Acting as an extension of their recruitment team, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On behalf of our client, Royal London. We are looking for a Technical Delivery Manager (Migration) for a 6 Month contract role (with potential extension) based in Edinburgh (Hybrid - 2 times per week in the office).

Job description - the role

Purpose of the role:

As Technical Delivery Manager you will lead delivery across a complex migration programme involving significant changes to multiple software applications. You will provide technical leadership and delivery oversight across diverse workstreams, including migration, application change, finance, testing, infrastructure, and architecture.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end technical delivery, ensuring alignment with scope, time, and quality targets.
• Lead technical roadmap planning, coordinating dependencies across multiple workstreams.
• Provide architecture and technical guidance to support long-term platform stability.
• Coordinate integration across engineering, QA, infrastructure, and business teams.
• Drive effective release management, including schedules and testing coordination.
• Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and performance challenges.
• Act as a key technical liaison between delivery teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.

The skills you'll need:

• Strong background in software delivery and data migration, ideally in large-scale systems.
• Proven experience in programme-level delivery oversight and technical workstream coordination.
• Solid understanding of release management, test environments, and change control.
• Ability to manage third-party vendors, and ensure accountability.
• Skilled in planning, risk management, and leading diverse technical teams.
• Financial services or protection business experience is a strong advantage.

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella/PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our sourcing specialists now.

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