Do you have a passion for developing your colleagues around you and enjoy helping people discover better ways of working? We are partnering exclusively with a large organisation at the forefront of digital services who are looking for an experienced Agile Delivery Manager or Scrum Master to join a team providing new, reliable, and secure digital services. As an Agile Delivery Manager, you will use your servant leadership skills to communicate effectively with highly technical people to build new solutions. £51, 997 plus excellent benefits and 27% pension. Flexible, hybrid working from Swansea.
Responsibilities
Key accountabilities will include:
- To effectively drive and lead ITS' management of performance and quality of service by the facilitation of backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives. Being accountable for driving the delivery of service against performance.
- To ensure individual and organisational learning and development opportunities for Agile Methodologies are fully exploited by continuously assessing your team's approach and sharing your knowledge with other ADMs in order to enhance organisational capability and understanding in this area whilst driving initiatives forward.
- To lead and manage effective and continuous development, implementation and evaluation by creating transparency and predictability across teams using appropriate Agile tools and metrics and align with the IT Strategy.
- Responsible for line management and coaching of multi-disciplined teams of highly skilled engineers, and ensuring that they are set up to successfully deliver against the IT Strategy.
- Responsible for creating a team environment that engenders delivery at pace whilst also remaining flexible enough to adapt to changing business priorities, and championing and coaching best-practice across the agile community.
Person specification
You may have a technical background and will have a range of complex and large scale delivery experience using agile methodologies.
It would be beneficial if you have experience of managing a team remotely, driving a positive team culture, supporting professional development across your teams.
It would be great if you have experience in delivering digital products and services, able to balance multiple priorities across an ever-changing landscape. You will be professionally curious taking an interest in the wider community and always looking for the next big thing.
You will be a strong advocate for continuous professional development and be an ambassador for changing the culture across government.
Additional Skills & Experiences:
- Previous line management experience
- Proven experience using agile methodologies
- Balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity
- Experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams
Benefits Expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, long-term career progression plus the following benefits:
- A salary of £51,997 (inclusive of allowances) dependant on interview assessment
- Accreditations expensed with study days aside in many areas
- High spec laptop
- An environment with flexible and condensed hours working options??
- Generous employer contribution of at least 26.6%, depending on rate of salary and chosen pension scheme.
- A great work-life balance???
- 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 each year (up to 30)
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave.?
- On-site gym plus personal training?available
- On-site nursery, restaurants, and coffee bar??
- Range of staff groups to support all our colleagues.??
- Free parking.
If you are a Senior Agile Delivery Manager looking to develop your skills and work with the latest technologies on large-scale software delivery projects, then contact Keesha Paulson at Inspire People, or apply today.
Further information:
- This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 5 out of the past 5 years.
- Client does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.