Agile Delivery Lead - Security Clearance (SC) - Remote Working
Our client, a global consultancy, are currently looking to hire an Agile Delivery Lead with Active Security Clearance to join the team on a contract basis. This role would be remote working.
Responsibilities:
- Guide one or more Scrum teams towards achieving program's strategic priorities.
- Monitor the delivery flow of teams, ensuring timely and accurate execution of roadmap items while maintaining inter-team alignment.
- Work with the Scrum Master to promote Scrum/Agile principles within the teams and stakeholders, helping them to adopt processes that best suit their needs.
- Remove impediments and distractions to optimise team performance.
- Support agile team transformation and encourage teams to adopt agile values and apply Scrum.
- Ensure teams are practising the core principles of collaboration, prioritisation, team accountability, and visibility.
- Track and report on project progress, including key metrics such as delivery timelines, budget adherence, and resource utilisation.
- Develop and maintain project plans / POAP, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation as needed.
- Support effective budget management within the constraints of the project as required.
- Ensure timely delivery of high-quality products that meet customer expectations.
- Coordinate with other Delivery Leads and Scrum Masters to ensure consistency and alignment across teams.
- Strong experience working in a scaled Scrum environment, coordinating with other Delivery Leads, Scrum Masters, stakeholders, and teams.
Skills and Experience:
- Proven experience as a Delivery Lead, Project Manager, or similar role in an Agile environment using the GDS delivery framework.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of the different phases of software product delivery and can contribute to, plan, or run these.
- Excellent leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- You can advocate for what a team does to create trust and authenticity.
- Strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to navigate challenges across organisational, technical, and political boundaries.
- Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps).
- Experience in a scaled Agile environment (e.g., SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale).
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools including application development, CI/CD pipelines and tools, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Dynamics technologies
If this role would be a good fit for your skills and experience, please apply!
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.