Job Description

Job title:

Delivery Manager

Department:

IT

Location:

Remote

Hours:

37.5 hours per week

Salary:

Competitive

We're looking for a Delivery Manager to be part of our success story.

Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.

Great career development opportunities - grow with us.

About the role

The purpose of the role is to ensure the engineering team consistently delivers high-quality, well-architected software aligned with company goals, while developing and motivating team members to perform at their best.



The Development Manager is responsible for leading and managing the software engineering team, ensuring the effective delivery of high-quality software solutions built on a modern

C#/.NET

technology stack. This role combines technical leadership, delivery management, and people management. The successful candidate will drive continuous improvement, maintain high standards of engineering quality, and ensure that the team delivers value in alignment with business priorities.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership


Lead, mentor, and develop 5 automation testers

Allocate resources across products based on priority and risk

Drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement

Define and implement quality strategy and roadmap across products

Establish testing standards, best practices, and quality gates

Drive quality metrics, KPIs, and reporting frameworks

Champion shift-left testing and ensure compliance with standards

Test Automation


Architect scalable test automation frameworks using Playwright

Oversee automation coverage targets (85%+) and ROI metrics

Provide hands-on support for complex automation challenges

Optimize testing processes and CI/CD pipeline integration

Implement automation reporting and dashboards

Stakeholder Collaboration


Lead test planning for major releases

Communicate quality risks and progress to stakeholders

Build consensus on quality standards across engineering teams

Skills and Experience

Proven experience in a Development Manager, Software Delivery Manager, or Engineering Manager role. Strong background in C#/.NET software development and modern architectural practices. Demonstrable experience in leading teams to deliver high-quality software products to time and budget. Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Experience with Agile delivery and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices. Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and development lifecycles.

Desirable Skills


Experience with Azure DevOps, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), or containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes). Familiarity with microservices architecture and RESTful API development. Hands-on coding or architectural experience to support technical decision-making. Exposure to managing distributed or remote engineering teams.

Benefits

33 days holiday (including bank holidays) Personal health cash plan - claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay Life assurance: three times basic salary Free breakfasts and fruit Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.


From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.


We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.


We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.


Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose:

Make someone's bad day better

Values:

Make it happen - Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job. Strive for better - Be bold. Challenge the norm - make small improvements often. * Win together - Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.