Agile Delivery Manager in London

As The Agile Delivery Manager, you are a manager and true leader who serves the Scrum Team and the larger organisation. You are accountable for the squad's effectiveness and outcomes.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading the squad in sprint delivery, creating the sprint goal, maintaining the sprint backlog, and collaborating with the Product Manager/Owner to build and maintain the Product Roadmap.
• Aligning to the role of Scrum Master according to the Scrum Guide.
• Leading, training and coaching the organisation in its Agile adoption.
• Providing leadership to the squad to effectively deliver the Product Roadmap, partnering with the Product Manager/Product Owner, Analysts, Developers, Testers and Lead Engineer.
• Building and maintaining the technical and business readiness plans to ensure successful delivery of the Product Roadmap and committed value each quarter and sprint.
• Collaborating with the Product Manager/Product Owner on effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
• Sustaining a focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
• Ensuring that BAU change and maintenance is baked into the delivery roadmap.
• Providing clarity for the Squad on the why, what and how.
• Working with the squad to check, challenge and encourage quality and pace throughout the increment and sprint.
• Ensuring Agile events are positive, productive and timeboxed; liaising with Chapter Leads to create experiments to continuously improve ways of working.
• Encouraging the squad's understanding of the 7IM Agile framework and enabling them to improve their practices.
• Empowering the squad to self-manage, understand, and use data to support continuous improvement in delivering change and value safely.
• Effectively managing and tracking impediments, risks, and dependencies, dissolving them where possible.
• Enabling close collaboration and clear communication with stakeholders and the team.
• Actively participating, sharing ideas, and driving improvement in the Agile Delivery Chapter.
• Managing and integrating any 3rd party supplier effectively into the squad delivery and ways of working.
• Aligning actions with upholding the FCA's Consumer Duty principles to contribute to fair and beneficial outcomes for clients.
• Adhering to all applicable compliance standards and being practices at all times.
• Acting in accordance with 7IM VPVPs.
• Other duties as reasonably required by your manager and 7IM.

Skills / About You:

• Experience of working on workflow and CRM solution deliveries is desirable.
• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering mentorship, coaching, and leadership both individually and at squad levels.
• Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Use of PowerBI / ADO / Jira work management or similar tools to support agile ways of working.
• Experience of collecting and using data to drive team improvement.
• Confident delivering formal and informal training.
• A flexible, resilient facilitator, able to explain the 'why'.
• Able to facilitate sessions to help the team break down complex solutions into smaller, achievable chunks of work.
• Adept at influencing behaviour cross-team and cross-discipline without formal organisational hierarchy.
• Listens to the team and empowers them to tackle challenges.

Qualifications:

• Recognised Professional Scrum Master qualification desirable.
• Practical experience working with a software engineering team.

Other Relevant Information:

This role reports to the Head of Agile Delivery Lead. Must be passionate about Agile principles and enthusiastic to embed them across Transformation and the wider organisation. A continuous improvement attitude and dedication to finding new ways of working.