Delivery Lead Specialist – Data & Analytics

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of complex digital, analytics and technology transformation projects.
• Work closely with clients, consultants, designers, engineers, data scientists and technology experts to ensure teams are aligned, priorities are clear, and delivery remains focused on impact.
• Lead the setup and execution of digital, analytics and technology delivery projects, from mobilisation through delivery and handover.
• Define delivery approaches, governance structures, rituals, workplans and reporting mechanisms tailored to the client context.
• Manage complex multidisciplinary teams across consulting, design, data science, engineering, product and client stakeholders.
• Translate business objectives into actionable delivery plans, technology requirements, product roadmaps and sprint-level execution.
• Drive project planning, prioritization and coordination across workstreams, ensuring that scope, timelines, dependencies and risks are actively managed.
• Operate confidently within Agile, hybrid Agile and PMO delivery environments, including sprint planning, backlog management, dependency management and release coordination.
• Use tools such as JIRA and other project management platforms to manage delivery transparency, project tracking, reporting and team alignment.
• Support or lead Digital Asset Build environments, including delivery governance, documentation, risk tracking, quality management and stakeholder reporting.
• Identify delivery risks early, shape mitigation plans and create a team culture where issues are raised constructively and resolved quickly.
• Facilitate client and team discussions, workshops and decision-making forums to maintain momentum and alignment.
• Ensure delivery outputs tell a clear story and connect directly to the client’s desired business impact.
• Contribute to proposals, pre-sales conversations, delivery approaches and project mobilisation for new client opportunities.
• Share delivery best practices across DNA and help evolve our delivery methodologies, toolkits and ways of working.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8+ years of relevant experience in digital project delivery, technology implementation, product delivery, PMO, Agile delivery, consulting or transformation environments.
• Experience leading complex digital, data, analytics or technology delivery projects, ideally in client-facing or consulting-led environments.
• Strong understanding of digital product delivery, including the roles of UX design, UI design, customer research, front-end development, back-end development, data science and engineering.
• Experience setting up and running delivery governance for multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong knowledge of Agile delivery methods, including sprint planning, backlog management, ceremonies, iterative delivery and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge how AI is changing the way we work and deliver software
• Practical understanding of how AI agents can interact with project management and software delivery workflows, including how to structure GitHub Projects, JIRA boards, backlogs, issues and documentation so that teams and coding agents can work from a shared, well-maintained source of context.
• Experience using Trello / JIRA / GitHub Projects and other project management or delivery tracking tools.
• Ability to translate business needs into technology requirements, delivery plans, product roadmaps and clear team actions.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills, including comfort working with data, delivery metrics, project reporting and complex issue diagnosis.
• Proven stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build trust with clients, understand motivations and influence decision-making.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills across formal steering meetings, working sessions and informal team interactions.
• Experience managing, coaching or mentoring junior team members.
• Fluent German and English.