Value Stream Portfolio Lead

Role Overview:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Consulting Department in Sheffield as a Value Stream Portfolio Lead, where you’ll play a pivotal role in overseeing the financial and delivery health of a major technology portfolio within a leading financial institution. If you’re passionate about strategic programme oversight, governance, and driving operational excellence in a fast-paced, client-focused environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Role Responsibilities:

• Maintain governance and oversight of the Value Stream Technology Portfolio, ensuring financial and delivery health across change and run-the-business activities.
• Proactively track and report Value Stream/Sub-Value Stream spend to Technology, Business, and Portfolio Management teams, ensuring accountability and transparency.
• Ensure systems accurately reflect forecasts and budgets based on known requirements.
• Hold programme managers to account throughout delivery, facilitating challenge sessions and ensuring timely issue resolution.
• Establish and maintain strong collaboration with second and third lines of defence (2LOD and 3LOD).
• Govern and report on agreed metrics for the Value Stream, embedding standardised performance indicators across delivery teams.
• Support the Value Stream Technology Lead with governance, resourcing, and strategic reporting.
• Coordinate strategic planning cycles to align financial investment decisions with technology strategy, risk appetite, and broader business goals.
• Manage quarterly tollgates and changes to financial targets, ensuring supplier budgets are correctly interlocked.
• Provide summarised financial analysis for key stakeholders, including headcount, rate, and position changes.
• Ensure senior stakeholders are fully briefed on programme statuses and risks.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven leadership experience in programme or portfolio management within financial services, ideally in a large-scale or multinational environment.
• Strong understanding of technology operational management, including regulatory, market, and competitive dynamics.
• Deep financial and commercial awareness, with experience managing large-scale budgets and resource plans.
• Demonstrated success in organisational transformation and project portfolio delivery in complex, matrixed organisations.
• Ability to manage and mitigate operational risk effectively.
• Expert knowledge of stakeholder requirements, competitor activities, and market trends to influence strategic direction.
• Experience with financial planning tools and reporting platforms (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) is a plus.

How We Work:

Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire.

This is a permanent full-time position located in Sheffield, England. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible, if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks. For this role a valid working permit for the UK is mandatory.

Expectations regarding hybrid working: As we are a Service Provider and Consulting firm servicing clients, our policy for physically working from the office (which may be the client’s offices or our own offices depending on the client) aligns to what our client’s policies and expectations are and these vary. Most of our client’s now require a minimum of 3 days per week in the office, 2 days from home, and accordingly this is also the minimum expectation that Delta Capita require.

Who We Are:

Delta Capita Group is a global managed services, consulting and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology based mutualized services for financial institutions for non-differentiating services.

Our 3 offerings are:

• Managed Services
• Consulting & Solutions
• Technology

To know more about Delta Capita and our culture click here: Working at DC - Delta Capita.