Role: Agile Delivery Manager


Contract Length: 12 months


Location: Hybrid – 3 days a week onsite in Manchester

Pay Rate: £650 (max inside IR35)


Vetting: SC clearance  

Main responsibilities

• Work within a multi-disciplinary team, helping to ensure that products are delivered in a manner that is aligned with wider business service development activities.


• Work with the Product Owner and a genuinely co-located multi-disciplinary team of approximately 30 people; policy experts, interaction designers, business analysts, technical and security staff to design, build and iterate our services.


• Remove blockers that relate to our service delivery activities.


• Create an environment conducive to self-organising people and teams, and be ready to step in with advice where needed.


• Get the best out of both Agile and non-Agile team members with guidance and support in understanding requirements.


• Maintain discipline in an environment with conflicting priorities and demands.


• Help to bridge the different disciplines in the team in order to enable effective delivery from everyone.

Experience :

• Have experience of Agile and Waterfall delivery methods, learning and iterating frequently throughout the entire project lifecycle (build, test, release).


• Have experience in working in a multi-team portfolio delivery structure.


• Have the ability to work closely with the Product Owner to define the roadmap for any given service and translate this into user stories / requirements.


• oversee the collaborative, dynamic planning process; helping prioritise the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.


• Have experience of Digital Services and a working understanding of the DWP (desirable)


• Ensure that our services and products are built to an appropriate level of quality.


• Actively participate in the Delivery Manager community, sharing and re-applying skills, knowledge and bringing in best practice.


• Demonstrate the ability to keep the long-term solution in focus and plan for risk.


• Understand the differences between Agile and Waterfall methods and how they can be applied together for success.


• Facilitate planning meetings, reviews and retrospectives


• Thrive in a fast-moving, changing environment.


• Have an understanding of the challenges and tensions inherent in working in an agile environment, within an organisation more used to waterfall project management

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