Senior Delivery Leader — Telecoms · IT · Software

I run the engine that delivers complex technology.

Over a decade leading the engineering and delivery teams behind enterprise telecoms, IT and software — bringing structure, pace and commercial discipline to work that has to ship profitably, predictably and at scale.

12M+
Customers reached
£15M
Budgets managed
10+
Years leading delivery
8
Squads run at once
9
Major organisations
About

A senior delivery leader who turns roadmaps, engineers and client commitments into software that actually ships.

I'm Matt — a delivery leader based in Greater Manchester. For over a decade I've led the engineering and delivery teams behind complex technology, from enterprise telecoms and IT to large-scale e-commerce, aviation and retail platforms.

Right now I lead the engineering delivery function for Gamma's enterprise CX team, building Contact Centre as a Service solutions for large enterprise organisations and government departments. My job is to take a roadmap, a group of talented engineers and a set of client commitments, and turn them into software that lands — on time, on cost and to quality.

I'm as comfortable driving pace with agile as I am holding a line with waterfall or hybrid delivery. What I care about is sequencing the work, removing the blockers and keeping everyone from the squad to the C-suite pointed in the same direction. And I believe the best delivery leaders stay close to the craft — which is why, outside the day job, I design and ship my own SaaS products.

Matt Rooney
What I do

Four things I'm relied on for.

01

Delivery & programme leadership

Owning delivery across complex, multi-team programmes — planning, sequencing, governance and getting work to land on time, cost and quality, even when the moving parts multiply.

02

Commercial & delivery governance

Bringing commercial discipline to delivery: budgets, prioritisation, RAID, reporting and the escalation controls that keep work profitable, predictable and visible to senior stakeholders.

03

Transformation, automation & AI

Modernising how teams work — automation, AI adoption and better engineering practice. I ship my own AI-native SaaS products, so for me this is hands-on, not theory.

04

Building & scaling teams

Line-managing, coaching and growing engineers and delivery managers, raising delivery standards and building capability that scales across teams, partners and third parties.

Experience

A throughline of delivery.

Over a decade across telecoms, retail, aviation, luxury and e-commerce — always the person accountable for getting complex technology delivered.

2025 — Present · Gamma Telecoms

Product Delivery Manager

Enterprise CCaaS · Telecoms

Lead the engineering delivery function building enterprise and public-sector Contact Centre as a Service. Line-manage 14 engineers and a delivery manager, run a third-party provider, and own delivery performance, escalations and AI features shipped to clients.

2024 — 2025 · CAVU (Manchester Airport Group)

Delivery Manager

Digital passenger experience · Contract

Delivered new digital journeys to improve the passenger experience, and introduced competency frameworks and delivery standards that raised ways of working across the delivery management team.

2024 · Christie's

Project Manager — Data & Insights

Fine art & luxury · Contract

Ran a taxonomy and metadata programme across London, India and New York — enriching object data, sharpening SEO and personalising the digital customer experience for the auction house.

2022 — 2024 · BT / EE

Digital Delivery Manager

Consumer telecoms at scale

Ran the delivery programme across 8 multi-disciplinary squads launching an entirely new digital experience for 12M+ customers, alongside a new order-fulfilment model — owning roadmaps, plans and senior stakeholder reporting.

2021 — 2022 · AO.com

Project Manager

Logistics & supply chain

Delivered logistics and supply-chain technology across 3 squads — AWS migration, breaking monoliths into microservices, and new scanning hardware for 3,000 delivery drivers across the UK and German businesses.

2019 — 2020 · TalkTalk

Device Manager

Telecoms · Vendor & service management

Owned firmware releases across the customer device estate, managing hardware and software suppliers, purchase orders and SLAs — the commercial and service side of telecoms delivery.

2019 · Code Computer Love

Product Delivery Manager

Digital product agency

Client-facing delivery at a digital agency, running a multi-discipline team while owning project planning, team budgets and commercial targets.

2017 — 2019 · JD Sports Fashion PLC

Multi-Channel Project Manager

International e-commerce

Introduced Scrum to the multichannel team and re-platformed an international business end-to-end — web, iOS & Android apps, WMS, middleware, data feeds and merchandising tools.

2015 — 2017 · Sainsbury's

Implementation Project Manager

Retail · Full project lifecycle

Ran full-lifecycle IT delivery for flagship supermarkets, convenience stores and refurbishments, including Argos click-and-collect integration and Sainsbury's Bank upgrades.

Read the Gamma & BT / EE case studies in depth →

Skills & toolkit

How the work gets done.

Leadership & delivery

Programme & portfolio delivery Line management & coaching Governance & RAID Resource & capacity planning Commercial & budget management Stakeholder management to C-suite Third-party & vendor management

Ways of working & tools

Agile / Scrum Waterfall Hybrid & Lean Jira Confluence Azure DevOps Miro Smartsheet

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master Certified Scrum Product Owner APM Project Management CMI Level 5 — Management & Leadershipin progress
Beyond the day job

I don't just manage builders. I build.

SaaS & product

I design and ship my own products

Outside of enterprise delivery I build multi-tenant SaaS end-to-end — real products, live in production, on a modern Next.js, Prisma and AI stack. It keeps me honest about the technology my teams work with, and sharp on where automation and AI genuinely move the needle.

Events

Matt Rooney DJ

I also run an events business serving weddings and events across Greater Manchester — a standing reminder that delivery, client experience and performing under pressure aren't only a boardroom skill.

mattrooneydj.co.uk →
Get in touch

Let's talk about delivering something.

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