Are you an advocate of servant leadership?
Do you have a passion for developing those around you?
Do you enjoy helping teams discover better ways of working?
If so, we’re currently recruiting for a Senior Agile Delivery Manager to join our IT Services (ITS) Directorate, and we’d love to hear from you.
Benefits
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
* Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
* 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
* Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
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Responsibilities
You will be responsible for communicating effectively with highly technical people and be at the front end of building solutions. You will be required to draw on your management and team leadership expertise, you will ensure that software meets the engineering standards and requirements specified by the business, and ensure successful delivery into production.
The Senior Agile Delivery Manager will actively build and promote an agile approach and environment, whilst ensuring the successful delivery of multiple outcomes via multi-disciplinary teams.
The DVLA is committed to professional development and this position has a learning framework in place, covering many certifications from recognised agile organisations and other areas. Offerings include training in coaching, facilitation, Scrum (certified to the highest level available with Scrum Alliance), Kanban, Scaling (Nexus) and agile leadership.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
* To effectively drive and lead all IT planning efforts, including sprint planning, launch and release milestones, timelines, and overall product roadmap in line with the Agency government digital agenda and IT Strategy.
* To ensure individual and organisational learning and development opportunities for Agile Methodologies are fully exploited by continuously assessing your team’s approach and sharing your knowledge with other Agile Leads in order to enhance organisational capability and understanding in this area whilst driving initiatives forward.
* To lead and manage effective and continuous development, implementation and evaluation by creating transparency and predictability across teams using appropriate Agile tools and metrics and align with the IT Strategy.
* Responsible for line management and coaching of multi-disciplined teams of highly skilled engineers, and ensuring that they are set up to successfully deliver against the IT Strategy.
* Responsible for creating a team environment that engenders delivery at pace whilst also remaining flexible enough to adapt to changing business priorities, and championing and coaching best-practice across the DVLA agile community.
For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only – whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
Would you like to find out more about the role, the digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA? If so, we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually meet the team on Tuesday 19th May 2026 at 12pm. Please click here to book on.
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