Head of Delivery

Platform Strategy: Support the Data Platforms leadership team in defining and maintaining the platform modernisation roadmap, aligned to enterprise architecture, business priorities, and transformation goals.

Legacy Simplification: Lead assessment, right-sizing, and decommissioning of legacy platforms to reduce estate size.

Cost Reduction: Deliver savings through operational efficiencies, R&M optimisation, licence rationalisation, and targeted decommissioning.

Cyber Risk Reduction: Oversee governance, audit visibility, and remediation activity to reduce high-risk vulnerabilities across critical platforms.

Target Architecture: Drive adoption of target and interim architecture patterns, ensuring scalable, modern engineering practices.

Stakeholder Leadership: Engage senior business, security, finance, and engineering stakeholders to maintain alignment, transparency, and shared ownership.

Benefits Management: Track, report, and realise financial, operational, and risk-based benefits, reinvesting savings into transformation initiatives (Data Flows, Events, Rationalisation, RIPT).

Delivery Oversight: Lead cross-functional teams, manage risks, and ensure delivery within budget and governance requirements.

Vendor Management: Manage technology suppliers to ensure value, compliance, and alignment with modernisation objectives.

Technical Solutions: Co-create and challenge technical solutions from a delivery perspective.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Qualifications

Knowledge

Skills