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
o Team Leadership: Act as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for software engineering teams on a day‑to‑day basis.
o Ceremony Management: Lead high‑impact sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
o Flow Optimization: Actively remove blockers, manage scope, and maintain delivery momentum across sustained periods of active build.
2. Technical Engagement & Engineering Quality
o Direct Collaboration: Work alongside developers, testers, and DevOps engineers to manage modern software engineering lifecycles.
o Technical Fluency: Confidently engage in discussions regarding technical trade‑offs, resilience, security, and recoverability.
o Modern Standards: Drive delivery within environments utilizing CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud‑native services.
3. Stakeholder Influence & Governance
o Strategic Influence: Challenge and guide senior technical and non‑technical stakeholders using evidence‑based reporting.
o Transparency: Build trust through consistent performance metrics and radical transparency regarding delivery health.
o Change Management: Complete delivery‑related governance and change activity (e.g., ServiceNow).
4. Planning & Coordination
o Backlog Management: Refine prioritized backlogs in partnership with Product Managers and Technical Leads.
o Risk Mitigation: Proactively manage cross‑team dependencies and complex risks.
o 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:
o Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
o Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
o 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.
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