UKAD is looking for an experienced Delivery Lead / Proxy Product Owner to join a long-term product development initiative for one of our international SaaS clients.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong engineering background who has evolved into delivery leadership. You understand software development deeply enough to speak the language of architects and engineers, but your primary focus is delivery excellence, stakeholder communication, planning, risk management, and turning business priorities into successful outcomes.
You will work closely with product leadership, architects, and engineering teams to drive roadmap execution, maintain delivery transparency, and ensure predictable, high-quality releases.
About the Project
Our client develops a mature SaaS platform built on Microsoft Azure, .NET, and Angular. The product serves business customers and continues to expand its capabilities across reporting, billing, automation, decision support, user experience, data services, security, and AI-enabled functionality.
The platform is delivered through Azure DevOps and follows modern cloud-native engineering practices.
The client already has established product and architecture leadership. Your role will be to help transform strategic priorities into effective execution and ensure that delivery remains aligned, transparent, and predictable.
Customer already has product and architecture leadership in place. The vendor Delivery Lead / Proxy PO is not expected to replace customer product ownership or make final product-priority decisions independently. We expect this role to work alongside product leadership as the day-to-day delivery counterpart: helping translate roadmap priorities into sprint-ready work, coordinating delivery ceremonies, ensuring backlog readiness, managing blockers, tracking delivery risks and maintaining clear visibility of progress, dependencies and decisions. customer will retain ownership of product strategy, commercial priorities, roadmap direction, architecture approval, and of course final prioritisation. The vendor Delivery Lead / Proxy PO should help operationalise those priorities into effective delivery.
Technology Environment
You won’t be expected to code on a daily basis, but you should be comfortable operating in a highly technical environment and discussing solutions with engineers.
The product ecosystem includes:
.NET / C# backend development
ASP.NET Core APIs
Angular frontend applications
Microsoft Azure cloud services
Azure-native architecture
Azure DevOps Boards, Repositories, Pipelines, and Reporting
Data engineering and reporting services
CI/CD and DevOps practices
Observability, security, and DevSecOps
AI-assisted development and delivery practices
What You’ll Do
Act as the day-to-day delivery lead for the product development team
Translate roadmap priorities into actionable delivery plans and sprint-ready work
Ensure backlog readiness, prioritization alignment, and delivery transparency
Coordinate sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and delivery ceremonies
Identify, track, and mitigate delivery risks and dependencies
Maintain visibility of progress, blockers, and key decisions
Work closely with product leadership to operationalize roadmap priorities
Coordinate activities across multiple engineering disciplines and stakeholders
Help maintain a single, integrated product team culture
Manage expectations, facilitate communication, and drive alignment between business and engineering teams
Support planning and coordination across both local and international team members
What We’re Looking For
Strong software engineering background, ideally in .NET / Microsoft technologies
Previous experience as a Delivery Lead, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Manager, Technical Product Owner, Scrum Master, or Tech Lead with delivery responsibilities
Experience leading software development teams of approximately 6–10 people
Strong understanding of Agile de
