Technical Delivery & Operations Lead - Sportsbook Engineering

Hard Rock Digital

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hard Rock Digital is building the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world, focusing on customer interaction, experience, behavior, and insight. This role, the Technical Delivery & Operations Lead – Sportsbook Engineering, is crucial for improving coordination, visibility, and execution effectiveness within Sportsbook Engineering. It involves close collaboration with Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, Product, and peer Technology teams to ensure delivery plans, technical priorities, and operational realities are structured, coordinated, and communicated accurately. This role does not own teams, people, delivery commitments, or technical decisions, but rather enables effective execution by structuring information, maintaining a coherent technical roadmap, surfacing risks and dependencies, and strengthening alignment. Hard Rock Digital is committed to being an AI-first organization, and this role actively supports this by using AI to enhance planning, reporting, and analysis, and by helping Sportsbook Engineering adopt AI tooling responsibly. The role will also help embed approved AI tools into engineering practices and track their impact across the delivery stack, ensuring responsible and governed AI use within the regulated betting domain.

Requirements

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong experience in technical delivery coordination, technical project/program management, or engineering operations.
Proven experience working with internal technical and product stakeholders across multiple teams.
Strong organisational, planning, and prioritisation skills, with attention to detail.
Ability to work effectively through influence rather than authority.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesise complex data and business information into actionable insights, supporting product and engineering prioritisation.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments and with modern engineering teams.
Ability to learn and understand new technical domains sufficiently to support planning, communication, and delivery alignment.
Highly comfortable using AI and AI-powered tools, including those built internally at HRD, using them confidently to support analysis, planning, and day-to-day decision-making.
Energised by our AI-first direction and ready to champion responsible adoption across the teams you support.

Responsibilities

Act as a primary coordination point for Sportsbook Engineering delivery and technical topics with Product and other Technology units.
Work with Engineering Managers and leaders outside of Sportsbook Engineering to coordinate shared initiatives and organisational dependencies.
Translate engineering realities into clear, structured, and data-backed communication for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Ensure ongoing alignment between technical priorities, delivery execution, and business goals.
Coordinate and structure delivery plans across Sportsbook Engineering teams into a coherent, cross-team view, covering both product-driven and technical initiatives.
Drive the ongoing maintenance of the Sportsbook Engineering technical roadmap, including architecture evolution, platform improvements, resilience, and technical debt.
Facilitate regular planning and alignment sessions with Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, Product, and other stakeholders to review priorities, sequencing, and dependencies.
Facilitate regular reviews of insights from observability and monitoring tools (e.g. reliability, performance, operational health), and ensure that resulting actions, improvements, and technical initiatives are reflected in Sportsbook Engineering delivery plans and technical roadmaps.
Ensure that the technical roadmap and delivery plans are consistently reflected in Jira, based on inputs and validation from Engineering Managers.
Track progress across teams, identifying delivery risks, slippage, trade-offs, and dependencies early and working with Engineering Managers to address them.
Support realistic planning by ensuring timelines, scope, and priorities are clearly understood and agreed.
Support product and engineering prioritisation decisions by analysing delivery, technical, and business data, and translating inputs from Product and the wider business into clear, data-backed recommendations on sequencing and trade-offs.
Work with Sportsbook Engineering Managers to ensure consistent and effective use of productivity and delivery tools (e.g. Jira), including workflows, statuses, estimation approaches, and reporting.
Establish, track, and evolve delivery and productivity metrics (e.g. throughput, predictability, flow, progress against plan) to provide meaningful insight.
Analyse productivity and delivery data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
Prepare consolidated engineering status reports, delivery health views, and roadmap updates for leadership and stakeholders.
Drive continuous improvement in engineering operations, planning practices, and ways of working across Sportsbook Engineering.
Drive adoption of AI tooling across Sportsbook Engineering delivery and operations, from planning and reporting through to code review and alert triage, and measure its impact on throughput, predictability, and operational health.