Engineering Delivery Manager

Join the NATO IT Modernization (NITM) Programme in a senior engineering leadership role supporting the delivery of secure, next-generation private cloud capabilities within a NATO-secured environment. The Engineering Delivery Manager is responsible for engineering management and integrated delivery across Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Automation & Orchestration (A&O), ensuring engineering teams execute programme objectives predictably from development through integration, testing, deployment, and customer acceptance. The position leads engineering execution across Platform, Network, Firewall, Backup & Recovery, DevOps, automation, orchestration, and supporting technical disciplines. Working closely with Chief Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Test leadership, programme management, and customer stakeholders, the Engineering Delivery Manager translates technical roadmaps and programme priorities into coordinated engineering execution while managing resources, milestones, dependencies, risks, blockers, and delivery commitments. The position is expected to be onsite at the Customer Site in The Hague, Netherlands, a minimum of three (3) days per week. Join the NATO IT Modernization (NITM) Programme.

Provide engineering management and delivery leadership across the IaaS and Automation & Orchestration engineering organizations. Lead integrated engineering execution across Platform, Network, Firewall, Backup & Recovery, DevOps, automation, orchestration, and supporting technical disciplines. Translate programme objectives, technical roadmaps, contractual milestones, and customer priorities into coordinated engineering execution plans. Develop and maintain integrated engineering roadmaps covering development, automation, integration, testing, releases, deployment, and customer acceptance. Partner with Chief Engineers and technical leads to ensure engineering work aligns with approved architectures, technical strategies, and implementation priorities while maintaining clear separation between engineering management and technical authority. Coordinate engineering backlogs with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Chief Engineers, and engineering leads to ensure work is appropriately defined, estimated, sequenced, resourced, and prioritized. Facilitate cross-team backlog refinement, sprint planning, programme increment planning, release planning, roadmap reviews, and engineering delivery reviews. Establish visibility of cross-functional engineering dependencies and drive resolution of technical and organizational blockers affecting delivery. Monitor engineering execution through Jira dashboards, Advanced Roadmaps, Agile metrics, milestone tracking, dependency management, defect trends, and delivery forecasts. Maintain integrated visibility of engineering risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and technical action items. Coordinate IaaS and A&O engineering activities to ensure infrastructure capabilities and supporting automation are developed, integrated, tested, and released as cohesive enterprise solutions. Drive alignment between physical infrastructure engineering and automation/orchestration development to maximize repeatability, standardization, and automated deployment of private cloud capabilities. Coordinate engineering readiness for system integration, formal testing, customer demonstrations, site deployment, and customer acceptance. Coordinate delivery interfaces among architecture, infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, Test, Site Deployment, and programme management organizations. Lead engineering delivery reviews and provide concise status, forecast, risk, resource, and recovery information to programme leadership and customer stakeholders. Develop and coordinate corrective actions and recovery plans when technical dependencies, resource constraints, or engineering performance place delivery commitments at risk. Manage engineering resource planning, workload