Service Delivery Lead (Melbourne)

Service Delivery Lead The Service Delivery Lead is responsible for ensuring the Development & Integration (D&I;) squads within the Mission System at the Development Centre achieve their business goals. They collaborate with the Customer's Capability Manager to create and maintain the delivery roadmap. Key Responsibilities
- Oversee blended delivery of ongoing software sustainment and change initiatives, managing priorities, dependencies, schedules, and delivery modes to ensure consistent, predictable outcomes.
- Provide top cover to insulate technical teams from business‑process overhead (governance admin, stakeholder management, planning artefacts), enabling engineers to stay focused on technical delivery.
- Translate business outcomes and roadmap priorities into an achievable delivery sequence, partnering with Engineering Leads to balance scope, schedule, risk, quality, compliance, and delivery feasibility.
- Own and maintain the integrated delivery plan and release calendar, coordinating scope, sequencing, milestones, and dependencies across teams to meet contractual and governance cadence expectations.
- Lead delivery performance and continuous improvement using fit‑for‑purpose metrics, running retrospectives and removing non‑technical impediments to throughput. What You'll Bring To Make An Impact
- Demonstrated project management and delivery experience, ideally within complex, multi‑team or regulated environments, with accountability for scope, schedule, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
- Strong experience operating in delivery‑focused roles across sustainment, change, or hybrid delivery models, with the ability to manage competing priorities and delivery modes effectively.
- Transparent interest and career intent to transition into a service‑operations‑focused role, contributing to the evolution of delivery capability from project‑based execution toward mature, repeatable service operations.
- Proven ability to support organisational growth objectives and strengthen the ability to scale services and win new work through reliable delivery performance. Diversity & Inclusion Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups. Compensation The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, market data, and applicable agreements. Contact If you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact the Careers team at #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3ruoy5