Software Delivery Manager

Our Opportunity

Location: Kidlington, Oxfordshire 

Roster: Monday - Friday 

Join us at the forefront of the race to net-zero, developing innovative software solutions that will unlock the life, safety, and performance of battery systems across markets and industries.

You will be responsible for the delivery of complex multi-product customer projects, supporting the deployment strategist to demonstrate value add for the customer throughout the entire life cycle of the development v cycle.

You will work closely with the Engineering, Product and Commercial teams to scope the project resource, create and manage the JIRA plan and track on time delivery. 

This role is for anyone with plus 5 years proven experience on software projects, keen to expand their experience in an agile deep tech start-up environment, with a focus on software development and deployment in an industry critical to a zero-carbon future.  

Key Responsibilities

You will be involved early in commercial process to support deployment strategists in planning the project, evaluating resource, cost and assessing the feasibility of the project timeline with the help of technical teams. You will be assigned to multiple complex parallel projects to track progress, update the schedule in JIRA and report business level metrics against the respective work. 

Our project managers are both strategists and technologists—able to lead customers through complex delivery while using their coding background to automate, analyse, and optimise the work around them to drive predictable and scalable outcomes. You will have a minimum of five years of admin level experience of JIRA, Confluence and Power BI and expected to leverage automations to minimise project admin overhead and increase the speed at which we generate project insights.

Changes to the project schedule are common and customers in our field act very dynamically. As a skilled Delivery Manager, you will be expected to minimize any potential setbacks from such changes by proactively seeking to understand the issues and dependencies. 

At every step you will be supported and empowered to make an impact. We are looking for someone excited to work with technical teams and customers to deliver exciting projects.

What will you do:
•    Deliver on complex multi-product customer projects, with hardware and software dependencies interlinking agile and waterfall ways of working in a dynamic environment. You’ll work alongside Deployment Strategist, Product Managers and Chief Engineers to ensure value add for customers.
•    Will be involved from early stages of setting up new projects to maintaining complex Structure.Gantt JIRA plans with input from team leads and customers. You will create and leverage automated PowerBI dashboards to identify resource gaps, track KPIs and budgets. Adapt to changes in priority, oversee we deliver high quality solutions on time, quantify risks and uncertainties in timing/resource projections.
•    Agree project timings and sync your plans with the company portfolio plan. Integrate plan baselines, identify dependencies between projects, resource constrains and minimise the impact of delays. Prepare Portfolio reports, tracking project status, timing, issues and risks.
•    In Elysia, traditional PMO roles focused on tools and data analysis are baked into the responsibilities of all members. You will be expected to lead customers through complex delivery while automating and optimising the work around you. You will be expected to make admin changes to Jira and Confluence in a live environment, build automated Power BI reports, integrating data from Worksavi, JIRA and Snowflake. 
•    Project data management – will need to ensure JIRA tickets are up to date with low admin overhead from developers. You will achieve this by writing Groovy and Java Script Runner scripts to populate tickets without human intervention. Use Claude MCP and ROVO AI agents to automatically pull Confluence conversational insights. 
•    Develop new processes and continuously improve the effectiveness of existing ones. Contribute to the overall governance and help make sure teams are following them.

Qualifications and Experience

We are searching for an experienced project manager with a coding background, having proven experience on both software and hardware projects: We encourage you to apply if you have the following:
•    5 years-plus experience delivering on fast-paced projects with software and hardware experience, with a blend of Agile and Waterfall.
•    Master’s degree in a STEM field (Software, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or similar) or equivalent experience
•    5 years-plus Confluence, JIRA Software and Service Management admin level experience in live environments. Power BI experience pulling data from multiple sources such as Worksavy, JIRA, python, Snowflake and others. ScriptRunner Groovy and Java scripting experience to automate JIRA. Experience using Structure.Gantt and interlinking multiple live projects.
•    Automotive software experience is highly desirable with proven experience delivering software in an environment with hardware interdependencies. This includes ASPICE Level 2 or 3 experience in obtaining accreditation, maintaining embedded project standards and auditing. 
•    Automotive experience in requirements gathering and management with tools such as Polarion, Doors or JAMA is highly desirable along with JIRA integration experience. Experience with FuSa and CySec requirements for embedded software. 
•    Software Project Management Qualifications such as Agile PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, CSPO, SAFe Agilist or ASPICE 4.0
•    Be responsive to changes in customer needs and expectations. Well organised person with strong problem-solving skills. Able to build and sustain positive relationships.
•    Great communication skills: confidently able to chase internal stakeholders for information and keep them accountable to deadlines.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.