Job Vacancy Agile Delivery Manager

As the Agile Delivery Manager, you will be accountable for the successful delivery of products and services within your team.

You will lead one of our Agile Scrum teams, acting as a true leader to facilitate collaboration, decision-making, effective planning of work, clarity on vision, scope, goals and roadmap, conflicting priorities and conflict resolution.

You are instrumental in taking the Product vision and making it happen, devising the right team and ways of working, and showing exceptional leadership and communication skills.

An Agile Delivery Manager is accountable for the performance of the team.

At this role level, you will:

• Be an active member of our community of practice, where you will share best practice, insight and support with your peers.

• Lead from the front using your Agile expertise and the scrum framework and Lean practices.

• Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborative, and working productively.

• Proactively address team dynamics and resolve issues as they arise, removing impediments/blockers to ensure a smooth workflow.

• Challenge and encourage the team to identify assumptions and risks, and proactively plan to address these throughout delivery.

• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services.

• Encourage, support, and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.

• Understand the agile project phases and know how to support the team through this lifecycle (discovery, alpha, beta, live, retirement).

• Coach and mentor team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques

• Form relationships with your peers to enable efficient cross-team collaboration and dependency management.

• Scrum certified to a minimum of CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) or PSM (Professional Scrum Master). We cannot accept part-qualifications or equivalent certifications.

• Agile and Lean Practices.

• Strong track record of building high performing agile software delivery teams using Scrum (additional experience of Kanban, XP, or Lean is desirable).

• Extensive understanding of product, services, and software development lifecycle, and proven experience of end-to-end delivery from initiation to live, as well as experience of iterating and improving services post live.

• Communicating between technical and non-technical, using delivery plans, metrics and forecasting techniques.

Our team

Our Agile Delivery Profession is part of the Digital and Technology (DAT) directorate. We are a team of 13 permanent and 14 third party Agile Delivery Managers working hand in hand to deliver Companies House digital strategy. We have 6 experienced Senior Agile Delivery Managers who will support you closely in your work, and one of them will be your direct line manager.