Delivery Lead - SMART and Industry and Regulation

Delivery Lead – SMART and Industry and Regulation

Base Location: Dublin

Salary: €76,100 - €114,100 + performance related bonus and a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The Role

This Delivery Lead role is accountable for end-to-end delivery of SMART and regulatory change within the Industry & Regulation platform, ensuring all regulatory obligations are delivered safely, compliantly, and to agreed market timelines, while operating within Agile ways of working.

This role is critical to protecting the business from regulatory non-compliance, financial penalties, and operational risk, while enabling the delivery of SMART capabilities such as Dynamic Tariffs, PAYG, Smart Meter integration, industry flows, and market change.

The role requires a Delivery Lead who is comfortable operating in high governance, audit heavy environments, balancing Agile delivery with firm regulatory guardrails, evidence requirements, and external dependencies.

You Will

• Lead end-to-end delivery of SMART and regulatory change within the Industry & Regulation platform, ensuring all commitments are delivered safely, compliantly, and in line with regulatory and market deadlines. Build and maintain stakeholder trust through transparent communication, proactive risk management and confident decision-making.
• Own delivery across complex multi-party ecosystems, coordinating internal teams, platforms, vendors, and external industry bodies/programme consultants to actively manage dependencies, sequencing, and delivery risk. Interpret incomplete or evolving regulatory guidance and translate into clear delivery assumptions, constraints and options rather than waiting for certainty.
• Drive vendor performance and commercial outcomes, ensuring delivery aligns to agreed scope, timelines, quality standards and contractual expectations in partnership with Product, Technical Product Owner, PMO and procurement.
• Embed Agile delivery within a strong governance framework, ensuring auditability, traceability and assurance requirements are met while adapting delivery approaches pragmatically to regulatory constraints.  Provide clear, concise delivery reporting to senior stakeholders, focusing on delivery confidence, regulatory risk, and readiness rather than activity alone.
• Own delivery governance, risk and reporting, proactively identifying and managing regulatory and operational risks, translating evolving regulatory guidance into clear delivery assumptions, and providing concise, outcome-focused updates on delivery confidence and readiness.  Challenge assumptions and reframe delivery expectations where required, ensuring alignment with delivery constraints and regulatory timelines.

You Have

• Significant and proven experience as a Delivery Lead delivering complex technology change in a regulated environment, with accountability for end to end delivery outcomes.
• Significant hands on experience delivering SMART, energy market, and energy regulatory change, in highly regulated domains where compliance and deadlines are non negotiable.
• Strong capability managing cross team and cross platform dependencies, including internal teams, vendors, and external industry or market participants.
• Experience operating within governance heavy delivery environments, balancing Agile delivery with audit, assurance, and compliance requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex SMART and energy regulatory requirements into clear delivery plans and decisions.

About SSE

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're building the world's largest offshore wind farm. Transforming the grid to provide greener electricity for millions of people and investing over £20 billion in homegrown energy, with £20 billion more in the pipeline.

Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide expertise, advice and day-to-day support in emerging technologies, data and analytics, cyber security and more.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact David.Brickell@sse.com / 01738 275 846 to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

Ready to apply?

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.

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