Job Title: Consulting Delivery Manager 

Report To: Head of Consulting 

Job Location: Hybrid - London Head Office 2-3 days a week & Remote 

Employment Status: Full Time

Salary: Competitive and market based 

Who is ControlPlane?

ControlPlane is a London headquartered consultancy specialising in cloud-native, Kubernetes, and open source solutions. Our expertise lies in helping organisations adopt and secure complex cloud infrastructures by implementing security measures that are "secure-by-design" and "secure-by-default." This engineering excellence has driven ControlPlane deeper into cybersecurity providing services like threat modelling, penetration testing, and supply chain security to ensure robust protection against cyberattacks in containerised and cloud-native environments.

We are acclaimed for our contributions to securing highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and national infrastructure. We help businesses improve their security posture through services like DevSecOps consulting, zero-trust architectures, and platform engineering. ControlPlane also focuses on advancing best practices in the Kubernetes ecosystem, offering specialised training and community engagement.

Our clients range from multinational banks to tech giants and public clouds, where we assist with both security and operational needs. In addition to consulting, we are active in the open source community, supporting projects like Flux CD and providing security tools for Kubernetes environments.

Over the coming years you’ll see us retain our focus on solving difficult problems for clients with intense security controls using pragmatic, real world solutions. Taking our extensive R&D to help organisations consume next generation and open source projects safely and securely - that might be extending our work with FINOS AI Readiness or the overhaul of open source supply chain security.

What We’re Looking For in a Consulting Delivery Manager

We are looking for a Consulting Delivery Manager to lead the successful delivery of our client engagements and internal projects whilst also managing our team of consultants.

This role is a blend of delivery execution and consultant management, ensuring projects run smoothly while supporting our consultants in their professional growth.

Key Focus Areas

• Managing delivery operations: Ensuring client and internal projects are delivered on time, within scope, and at a high standard.
• Leading consultants: Supporting professional development, performance, and well-being.
• Optimising ways of working: Removing blockers, building squads, improving processes, and driving continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate is organised, people-focused, and process-driven with experience in delivery and team leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery & Project Management

• Oversee the successful execution of internal and consulting projects
• Effectively track & manage project budgets
• Facilitate the break down of requirements and estimations for new and existing pieces of work
• Act as the primary delivery lead for key engagements, ensuring alignment between teams and stakeholders
• Create delivery plans,track progress and provide progress reports
• Manage risks, resolve issues, and ensure projects meet quality and performance expectations
• Communicate effectively with internal teams, external stakeholders, and leadership
• Champion continuous improvement by refining processes and sharing best practices
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint planning, etc.) and improve delivery workflows

Consultant Management & Team Leadership

• Act as a line manager for consultants, feedback, and career development support
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings to support individual growth and performance.
• Ensure consultants have the resources, guidance, and feedback they need to succeed in client engagements
• Support team well-being by balancing workload, preventing burnout, and maintaining engagement.

Resource & Squad Management

• Assist in squad formation and resource allocation, ensuring the right consultants are assigned to the right projects
• Work with leadership to forecast resource needs and manage team capacity
• Identify skill gaps and support consultants in addressing them through training and guidance
• Proactively identify and address current and future resourcing requirements
• Highlighting and anticipating hiring needs

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in agile delivery management, ideally in cloud security, DevSecOps, or cloud native technologies
• Previous experience managing consultants, engineers, or technical teams
• Strong expertise in Scrum, Kanban, or other agile methodologies
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to track and report on project progress, budgets, risks, and dependencies
• Passion for helping others grow and develop in their careers
• A consultancy mindset, with the ability to balance technical depth and client expectations
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, DevSecOps, or cloud native technologies is a plus

Benefits

ControlPlane is a dynamic, cutting edge and passionate business for which to work. Our employees are the heart of our business, which means we care about our company culture and our employees’ wellbeing and progression. Alongside this, as our colleague you will have the following benefits:

• Generous and competitive salary
• Discretionary team bonus
• 33 days of paid holiday, including paid leave for the standard 8 UK Bank Holidays
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Private medical insurance

We believe our peers are equally as important as the technology we use. We’re looking for people of the highest personal calibre, quietly confident, with a good work ethic, keenness to learn, emotional maturity and respect, who know that “we” is more than “me”, and who embrace human diversity of all kinds. As we grow you will help us to build a company culture of which we can all be proud. If you espouse these values, we want you!