Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Location: Newcastle, Leeds, or Birmingham (Minimum 60% Office Attendance Required)
Role Overview
The Senior Agile Delivery Manager is a technical delivery leader responsible for the hands-on delivery of software within a modern engineering environment. This is not a purely administrative role; you will be embedded with engineering teams, navigating technical trade-offs, and driving the end-to-back software development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
1. Hands-on Agile Delivery
Team Leadership: Act as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for software engineering teams on a day-to-day basis.
Ceremony Management: Lead high-impact sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
Flow Optimization: Actively remove blockers, manage scope, and maintain delivery momentum across sustained periods of active build.
2. Technical Engagement & Engineering Quality
Direct Collaboration: Work alongside developers, testers, and DevOps engineers to manage modern software engineering lifecycles.
Technical Fluency: Confidently engage in discussions regarding technical trade-offs, resilience, security, and recoverability.
Modern Standards: Drive delivery within environments utilizing CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud-native services.
3. Stakeholder Influence & Governance
Strategic Influence: Challenge and guide senior technical and non-technical stakeholders using evidence-based reporting.
Transparency: Build trust through consistent performance metrics and radical transparency regarding delivery health.
Change Management: Complete delivery-related governance and change activity (e.g., ServiceNow).
4. Planning & Coordination
Backlog Management: Refine prioritized backlogs in partnership with Product Managers and Technical Leads.
Risk Mitigation: Proactively manage cross-team dependencies and complex risks.
Tooling Mastery: Utilize Jira effectively for tracking and reporting at both the team and initiative level.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
Software Build Experience: Proven track record in active software product delivery (Cloud migrations or CRM implementations alone are insufficient).
Engineering Environment: Recent experience working directly with teams using:
Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
CI/CD tooling and Automated Testing
Agile Expertise: Expert-level application of Scrum/Kanban in a "build" rather than "maintenance" context.
Stakeholder Management: Experience influencing at the senior leadership level.
Complex Problem Solving: Ability to navigate technical concerns like system security and service resilience.
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy