Lead Delivery Consultant in Leeds

Our Delivery Leads help our teams to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions. Whether it’s leading a discovery phase, with service and product designers, or supporting an established team to deliver ongoing improvements - our Delivery Leads are vital in Answer and our customer’s success.

What you’ll bring to Answer:

• Ability to drive Agile Delivery, facilitating teams to be greater than the sum of their parts
• Ability to communicate complexity with clarity, including tech and non-tech audiences
• Leadership ability – invoking good team spirit and culture whether in Answer/Client or Rainbow teams
• Broad understanding of delivery techniques, Agile, Waterfall, bi-modal and how to apply them in the correct context/environment
• The ability to use a variety of delivery techniques and artefacts to manage teams on a day-to-day basis
• Leading continuous improvement, removing impediments and supporting a “fail fast, learn fast” culture
• Working with clients to develop their agile practices and ways of working including mentoring their staff
• Contribute to the Answer delivery community by participating in Community of Practice activities and sharing your experiences

Preferred (but not mandatory) skills:

• Contribute and act as a mentor to our Answer Delivery Academy, nurturing the diverse talent that comes through our Academy programme
• Raising Answer’s Delivery profile through events like Lunch & Learns and Leeds Digital Festival
• Foster strong and open relationships with Senior Client Management to allow you to seek new business opportunities
• Experience managing budgets, statements of work, and supplier relationships
• Jira, SharePoint, Trello, Confluence, G‑Suite and an interest in using new tech to improve your work.

Benefits:

• We’re an Employee‑Owned Company. After 12 months – through the Employee Ownership Trust you will be part of the ownership of Answer; a major factor in driving engagement, retention and growth for our people.
• Flexible annual leave (buy/sell and carry forward)
• Twice a year income‑tax free bonus based on company performance – it’s a reward for being a part of our EOT journey
• Continuous training and development – if you want to learn, we’ll provide the support you need
• Flexible Pension – we match your own contributions up to 5%
• A flexible Healthcare cash plan so you can fund the care you value most
• A packed social calendar including; end of year party (partners invited) and Summer away days, monthly and quarterly company team socials.
• Parking at Head Offices in central Leeds, plus Cycle2Work & Green Car Lease schemes to help get you here
• The chance to give back – get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from different backgrounds into tech, as well as lots of charity and community events

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Answer we proudly embrace diversity and inclusion – we want to create a safe environment for everyone to bring their true selves to work. We will do everything we can to support your application. If you require any adjustments to be made to your application (whether that’s support with our interview questions, adjusting how we interview, or financial support with our hiring process) then please speak to Jonny Hiles, TA Lead (jonny.hiles@answerdigital.com).