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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Lead to join our Central Digital AI team. This hands-on leadership role requires a blend of disciplined delivery management, strong technical understanding, and practical engineering capability to lead multidisciplinary teams in creating AI agents and automation solutions. You will own complex digital and innovation projects end-to-end, transforming promising pilots into robust, scalable tools that deliver measurable value.

Responsibilities

Shape the opportunity by defining problems, outcomes, scope, success measures, constraints, and value routes with business users and domain specialists.
Lead complex digital and innovation projects and programmes from discovery through to sustainable operations.
Establish integrated delivery plans, budgets, resource profiles, and manage risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, and change control.
Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, ensuring clear understanding of responsibilities and interfaces.
Assure adoption and service readiness through planning testing, user acceptance, training, communications, deployment, and operational support.
Deliver applied AI and automation initiatives, translating technical possibilities into practical, safe, and valuable solutions.
Build AI agents hands-on, including prototyping, configuring, integrating, testing, and debugging using low-code approaches.
Select appropriate implementation paths for AI solutions based on speed, control, integration complexity, security, scale, maintainability, cost, and supportability.
Embed data protection, information security, responsible AI, human oversight, traceability, evaluation, and proportionate controls throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Turn prototypes into products by establishing repeatable delivery patterns, reusable components, production-grade controls, and operational ownership.
Manage contractual, commercial, and intellectual-property considerations to enable solution reuse.
Translate complex technical choices into clear business language and convert user needs into technical requirements.
Line manage and mentor delivery leads, setting objectives, providing feedback, and supporting career development.
Foster an effective team culture by coaching, removing blockers, and promoting ownership, inclusion, learning, quality, and pragmatic decision-making.

Requirements

Proven experience leading complex digital or innovation projects and programmes end-to-end, from concept/pilot to scaled deployment.
Strong hands-on project management capability across scope, plans, budgets, resources, governance, risk, dependencies, quality, change, suppliers, stakeholder communications, and benefits.
Demonstrable experience leading teams that build AI agents, with practical experience personally building, configuring, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting AI agents.
Working knowledge of both low-code and pro-code AI delivery, with the judgement to select and combine them appropriately.
Technical fluency across modern AI, data, and software delivery, including APIs, integrations, cloud services, data pipelines, testing, deployment, observability, security, and support.
Understanding of applied AI and automation capabilities, including advanced analytics, machine learning, and computer vision, and the controls needed for responsible use.
Experience delivering solutions that connect physical systems or hardware and data capture with analytics, AI, and software platforms.
Evidence of turning prototypes into robust, repeatable, supportable, and scalable products or services.
Experience developing business cases, governance models, delivery structures, cost and resource models, and deployment or operating blueprints.
Ability to address data, intellectual-property, responsible-AI, contractual, and commercial considerations in partnership with relevant specialists.
Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams including technical, analytical, engineering, domain, and business contributors.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including explaining technical subjects plainly, facilitating decisions, and constructively challenging assumptions.
Line-management and mentoring experience, with a record of developing delivery professionals and building high-performing teams.
A practical, collaborative, and outcomes-focused approach, willing to work directly on delivery problems.
Proactive and challenging of best practices and ways of working, comfortable challenging business processes and supporting collaborative enablement.
Risk-focused with a proactive approach to risks for complex initiatives with dependencies or high uncertainty.

Skills

AI agents
Automation solutions
Low-code AI
Pro-code AI
Prompt and instruction design
Knowledge grounding
Retrieval
Tool and action integration
Workflow orchestration
Evaluation
Advanced analytics
Machine learning
Computer vision
Intelligent automation
Data protection
Information security
Responsible AI
Human oversight
Traceability
APIs
Integrations
Cloud services
Data pipelines
Testing
Deployment
Observability
Support
Microsoft AI and cloud ecosystem (Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Azure AI, Azure, SharePoint, DevOps, GitHub)
Agent frameworks
Software development languages
Integration patterns
Solution architecture
Architectural, Engineering and Construction tool ecosystems
Geospatial and digital-twin platforms (Autodesk Platform Services, Bentley iTwin, Esri)
Engineering project contracts

Location

UK-wide

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Experienced project manager
Senior roles

Education Level

Recognised project, programme, product or agile delivery qualification, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

Pension contributions matching between 4.5% and 7%
Life assurance equal up to 4 x basic salary, with option to increase to 6 x
Income protection scheme with absence and return to work support
Flexible benefits including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing
Annual bonus schemes
Employee ownership model with personal and group performance bonuses
Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
Health cash plan
Access to Peppy for menopause support
Comprehensive wellbeing program for individuals and families
Ability to flex salary for a wide range of health benefits, extendable to family
Minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays
Ability to buy or sell leave
10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers
Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service
Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts
Enhanced family leave policies
26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave
Two weeks paid paternity/partner leave
Shared parental leave matching maternity leave (up to 24 weeks at full pay)
Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities (two paid)
Support for military families
Primary annual professional institution subscription
Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development
Membership in Advanced Employee Networks (LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, parents/carers)
Support through the Armed Forces Network
Opportunities to make a difference within communities through social outcomes

About the Company

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve.
Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do.
With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.
As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.
Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation, enabling us to run efficiently and effectively.
The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business, specifically designed for our global reach.

Equal Opportunity

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve.
We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.