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Senior Director, Delivery

Coates Group
Sydney
•On-site•
Full-time
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Posted 3 months ago
NAM Tech & Global McDonald's Account
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Job Description

The Senior Director, Delivery (McDonald’s) is accountable for the effective planning, coordination, and execution of delivery across the McDonald's portfolio of programs, squads and releases. The role ensures work is delivered predictably, environments and releases are managed efficiently, and cross-functional teams are aligned to achieve business and client outcomes. Through strong leadership, governance, and continuous improvement, the role drives delivery excellence at scale.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for the role

  • Portfolio Delivery Leadership: Lead delivery across multiple programs, squads, and work streams, ensuring commitments are realistic, coordinated, and delivered predictably.
  • Release Planning & Execution: Oversee integrated release planning and execution across squads, ensuring features progress smoothly through the SDLC.
  • Program Governance: Govern larger initiatives spanning multiple squads, managing scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and benefits realisation.
  • Delivery Flow & Dependency Management: Improve quality and throughput across squads by resolving blockers, managing cross-team dependencies, and enabling efficient flow from planning to production.
  • Release & Environment Management: Lead the release management practice and environment governance, ensuring coordinated release calendars, deployment readiness, environment availability, and effective management of environment demand, conflicts, and dependencies.
  • Governance, Reporting & Risk Control: Maintain clear delivery & program governance, forecasting, RAID management, and timely escalation of issues requiring decisions.
  • Cross-Functional & Client Alignment: Partner with Product, Engineering, Quality, Operations, and client stakeholders to align priorities, capacity, practices, and delivery readiness.
  • Resource & Commercial Management: Manage delivery capacity, budgets, and partner resources to ensure efficient utilisation and commercially sound outcomes.
  • People Leadership & Continuous Improvement: Build a high-performing Delivery function and continuously improve planning discipline, release effectiveness, delivery cadence, and team capability.

    • Requirements

    Qualifications and experience

  • 12+ years in software Program Management and/or technology delivery with 5 years of experience leading large and complex technology portfolios
  • Proven track-record delivering enterprise-scale software, digital, or platform initiatives across multiple concurrent squads or streams
  • Strong experience managing continuous delivery models with frequent releases, coordinated testing cycles, and production deployments
  • Experience in Agile, hybrid, and structured delivery models, with sound judgement on fit-for-purpose governance
  • Strong commercial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, capacity planning, and partner/vendor management
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including executive, client, and cross-functional engagement

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