Main Duties
* Facilitate Agile Ceremonies: stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, and reviews to maintain momentum and foster continuous improvement.
* Team Planning & Prioritisation: Support the team in estimating, tracking, and delivering priorities, ensuring alignment with business goals.
* Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with the Product Manager and technical stakeholders to understand priorities and dependencies.
* Workflow: Oversee the daily flow of work items, ensuring progression from backlog to delivery, using flow metrics where appropriate to enhance predictability and efficiency.
* Reporting & Insights: Track and report against key milestones and forecasts, providing clear visibility on team progress.
* Programme-Level Engagement: Represent the team in programme-level sessions, articulating updates, risks, and dependencies.
* Risk & Issue Management: Identify and address risks promptly, ensuring mitigation plans are in place.
* Incident Response: Act as a key escalation point during live incidents, helping to coordinate resolution and communication.
* Removing Blockers: Proactively address obstacles that hinder team performance and ensure a clear pathway for delivery.
* Continuous Improvement: Drive team maturity in agile delivery practices, fostering a culture of learning and adaptation.
* Cross-Team Dependencies: Understand and manage dependencies with other teams and workstreams across the programme. Ensure smooth integration and alignment of delivery plans.
Candidate Profile
Essential Criteria
* Experienced Delivery Manager with proven background in running cross functional agile delivery teams.
* Extensive experience of Agile methodologies including SCRUM, Kanban and knowledge of DevOps.
* Experience of leading teams delivering solutions as part of a wider programme of delivery.
* Evidence of communicating effectively across the wider organisation, understanding differing stakeholders for example technical/non-technical and political boundaries, understanding the context.
* Expertise in facilitating agile ceremonies and team collaboration.
* Ability to manage priorities, dependencies, and risks effectively.
* Extensive background in providing accurate, timely information on progress, resourcing, and impediments to allow informed decision making.
* Experience using agile tools such as Azure DevOps, Actionable Agile or similar.
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
* Experience of leading technical delivery teams utilising automated delivery methodologies including automated development pipelines, automated testing, operations etc.
* Ability to Influence, both inside the Digital, Data and Technology department, and across the organisation.
* Familiarity with Kanban flow metrics and data-driven decision-making.
* Demonstrable experience producing high value Project Delivery MI.
* A passion for continuous improvement and agile best practices.
* Product Manager/Product Owner experience to help understand the wider delivery direction.
* Understanding of DSIT/CDDO digital and technology pipelines.
* A relevant Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager qualification.
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