Length of employment: Job Summary: Lead. Inspire. Deliver. Are you a passionate Agile leader with a talent for driving high-performing teams and delivering outstanding digital products? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where collaboration, innovation, and customer value are at the heart of everything you do? If so, we want you on our team! You'll play a pivotal role in leading cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions. You'll be the driving force behind Agile best practices, removing blockers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and ensuring smooth, efficient delivery. We have a number of exciting opportunities across multiple teams, each playing a crucial role in shaping the future of digital services at DWP: DWP Digital Integration - The Digital Integration team have a huge portfolio of systems and are in the midst of replacing most of these legacy integration systems with new, modern, in-house services focussed on Event and API driven architecture and File Transfer. There is barely a project in DWP that does not need integration services so, the teams are involved in almost everything that Digital does. We also provide integration to externals and numerous other government projects. GOV.UK and Signposting team - The GOV.UK and Signposting team are responsible for ensuring people can understand and easily find the support they are entitled to on GOV.UK. We design the user journey as well as manage and maintain all DWP content on GOV.UK. A Senior Agile Delivery Manager is required to lead delivery of valuable outcomes that meet user needs whilst working closely with teams across the organisation and within GDS. Data Enablement - DWP has an ambition to be a data driven department, and to support this, Data Enablement teams prepare and manage data so users can easily understand and readily use it. Our goal is to reduce the time from data to insight by creating a single source of truth for common use cases. We understand the needs of data users and based on this create APIs and curated data sets to enable operational and policy decision making and official statistics. We also provide external APIs and curated data for other government departments and third parties. Job Description: You'll join a thriving community of practice, where you'll share best practice, insight and support with a bunch of other talented, expert Agile Delivery Managers. We're looking for a candidate that will: Champion Agile Delivery - Lead teams using Agile frameworks, ensuring efficiency and value driven outcomes. Drive High Performance - Motivate and mentor teams to work collaboratively, optimising workflows and maximising productivity. Remove Barriers - Identify and eliminate impediments, keeping teams focused and moving forward. Engage Stakeholders - Build strong relationships with product owners, engineers, and business leaders to align goals and expectations. Ensure Quality and Continuous Improvement - Foster a culture of feedback, learning, and iteration to enhance ways of working. Data and Metrics - Use key Agile metrics and insights to drive decision making and optimise delivery performance. Check out these blogs about our Agile Delivery Teams in DWP: DWP Digital Careers We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours. Generous annual leave - at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave. Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme. Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year's continuous service. Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes. An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women's Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more. This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. Salary Information Pay for this role is from £55,557 to £66,058. The maximum salary for the grade is £66,058, however a Digital Allowance of up to £9,690 per annum is available for exceptional candidates. Digital Allowance is non-salary, and non-pensionable, and is classed as a temporary allowance. It is reviewed annually where it could be retained, amended, or removed. Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary. Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater. When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line withessential criteriabelow: Experience of digital delivery in an agile environment in multiple phases. Promoting a culture of psychological safety in teams, managing team dynamics. Fostering a continuous improvement environment. Experience of leading and building stakeholder relationships at multiple levels. Having a proactive approach to learning and development of yourself and others. Experienced in the use of Agile principles and practices. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Natalie.selby1@dwp.gov.uk. Stage 1: Application Your application will consist of three parts: 1. A Personal Details application form. 2. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed based on the essential criteria. 3. Personal statement - up to 750 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person specification. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria. You will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your CV and Personal Statement. For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. Important Information You will be asked to complete your employment history any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form. Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered. If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn. We recognise that AI may be helpful when applying for this role, but it is important to use it in the right way. Read the DWP AI Candidate Guide to understand how you can make the best use of GenAI while ensuring your application remains authentic and effective. Stage 2: Interview If you're successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria. Interviews will take place from late June 2025. Sift and Interview dates to be confirmed. Further Information: Find out more about Working for DWP If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards. A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location. Reasonable Adjustment At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the "Reasonable Adjustments" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional. For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page. The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action.