Agile Delivery Specialist (Riverside Tower, Belfast (N.I), United Kingdom)Why this job mattersThe unit of delivery is the cross functional squad. Embedded Agile Delivery Managers help make our squads more effective and are accountable for driving the delivery and delivery process of our digital products and services towards outcomes. There are three core aspects to any delivery manager role: Delivery Mechanics: Managing the delivery processes ensuring there is an iterative plan to work towards with tight feedback loops. Maintains delivery momentum and manages blockers, risks and impediments. Squad dynamics: Taking the lead on establishing healthy squad dynamics and routines. Making sure the squad is working well and members are happy. Lean/agile practices: Has a passion for their subject area, coaching squads on agile/lean techniques and helps them apply them as needed. Creating an environment where continuous improvements of squads' working practices can happen, including measuring success, inspecting and adapting. What you’ll be doing1. Facilitates the day-to-day delivery of the squad, ensuring alignment with the defined roadmap, timeline, and budget constraints.2. Facilitates key Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily Scrums, retrospectives, and sprint demos, driving team collaboration and efficiency.3. Partners with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues and provide regular progress updates, ensuring squad objectives are achieved.4.Helps in identifying risks and blockers affecting delivery and coordinates mitigation efforts, ensuring smooth squad operations and minimal disruption across tribes.6.Maintains an objective approach, applying Agile principles to resolve challenges and drive delivery success.7.Facilitates collaboration across squads to ensure dependencies are managed effectively and delivery is optimized.8.Works closely with other Agile Performance Coaches to enhance the application of Agile practices and foster collaboration.9.Ensures adherance to the delivery roadmap, managing scope, budgets, and timelines to meet business expectations.10. Fosters a continuous improvement mindset, learning, innovation, and effective problem-solving.11. Facilitates regular reporting on squad progress, highlighting challenges and ensuring transparency with stakeholders to enable timely interventions.Experience you'll haveKnowledge and experience of delivery practices and experience of delivering in an environment using enterprise technology. Know-how to drive squads and set the pace, ensuring squads are working towards defined (and where needed shared) outcomes.Experience leading annual, quarterly, and continuous planning processes, translating product managers' visions into deliverables and delivery plans in a complex, large-scale environment. Support effective budget management within the constraints of business. You know how to monitor projected budgets against expenditure.By understanding and tracking DORA metrics, you can drive continuous improvement initiatives and ensure they are incorporated into backlogs where applicable.Preferred Qualifications:Scrum Master CertificationRelevant Project Management qualification (AgilePM, PMP, Agile, Lean)Relevant Lean / Agile qualificationsRelevant Change Management / Facilitation qualificationsThe skills you’ll needAgile DevelopmentCross Functional WorkingAgile PlanningDecision MakingContinuous ImprovementObjectives and Key Results (OKR) Definition & TrackingSprint Events/CeremoniesProblem SolvingGrowth MindsetStakeholder ManagementLean Portfolio Management (LPM)Conflict ResolutionRisk ManagementProgram Increment Planning/Big Room PlanningAgile MethodologiesKPI/Metric MonitoringOrganisational TransformationSoftware Development LifecycleInclusive LeadershipBenefitsAn annual on-target bonus of 10% (personal and company multipliers).BT Pension scheme: minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%.Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages.50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM-only plans, and a 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM-only plans.Discounted EE TV, including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership.There’s also great support for working parents, including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave.25 days' annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.Volunteering days, so you can give back to your local community.Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’.Our leadership standardsLooking in:Leading inclusively and SafelyI inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.Owning outcomesI take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.Looking out:Delivering for the customerI execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.Commercially savvyI demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.Looking to the future:Growth mindsetI experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.Building for the futureI build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.About usBT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business. Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other. While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies. Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.