Junior Agile Delivery Manager

As a Junior Agile Delivery Manager, you support and increasingly own effective delivery within your squad(s), helping workflow from planning through to release in a controlled, transparent and outcome-focused way. You facilitate Agile practices, maintain delivery momentum, manage risks and dependencies, and improve ways of working using data, tooling and AI-enabled approaches. Working closely with Product, Engineering, Testing, Design and other colleagues, you help create clear delivery focus, strong team collaboration and a safe environment where issues are surfaced early and improvements are acted on.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate core Agile ceremonies independently and ensure they are focused, productive and drive clear outcomes.
• Work with Product to maintain a clear, well-groomed and prioritised backlog, improving readiness and clarity ahead of delivery.
• Support squad planning and delivery from sprint planning through to release, helping the team meet realistic commitments consistently.
• Track progress, delivery health, risks, blockers and dependencies, escalating or coordinating resolution where needed.
• Proactively resolve impediments, including those requiring cross-team coordination, while knowing when to seek support.
• Use delivery metrics and insight to identify trends, reduce waste and rework, and improve flow, predictability and quality.
• Own squad-level roadmap visibility and support quarterly planning preparation and follow-through.
• Facilitate discussions that create clarity, alignment and decisions across the squad and relevant stakeholders.
• Communicate delivery status, key dates, risks, dependencies, trade-offs and impacts clearly and proactively.
• Support incident resolution and ensure learning from incidents and retrospectives is applied to improve future delivery.
• Introduce and follow through on small experiments and improvements to ways of working, using a test-and-learn mindset.
• Use tooling, automation and AI-enabled support to streamline delivery effectively while retaining accountability and control.
• Promote accountability, ownership and continuous improvement within the squad.
• Actively foster a safe, supportive and collaborative environment where people feel confident to speak up, challenge constructively and improve.
• Contribute to the Agile Delivery Chapter through participation, knowledge sharing and consistent practice.
• Operate confidently within governance, compliance and regulatory expectations, including Consumer Duty principles where relevant.
• Act consistently in accordance with 7IM values, policies and compliance standards.
• Complete other reasonable duties as required by your manager and 7IM.

About You

Knowledge

• Understanding of Agile values, principles and common frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Understanding of the delivery lifecycle from discovery and planning through to release and learning.
• Knowledge of backlog management, sprint goals, Definition of Done, delivery metrics, risks, dependencies and impediments.

Qualifications

• Recognised Scrum Master or Agile delivery qualification desirable, or willingness to work towards one.
• Experience working in an Agile, technology, change or delivery environment desirable.
• Experience working with, or alongside, software engineering teams desirable.

Skills/Other relevant information

• Highly organised and able to keep delivery activity visible, structured and moving.
• Confident facilitator who can create focus, encourage participation and help the team reach clear outcomes.
• Clear, proactive communicator who adapts messaging to the audience and context.
• Curious about better ways of working and comfortable trialling small improvements.
• Positive, resilient and pragmatic mindset, maintaining momentum despite change or blockers.
• Passionate about Agile principles and enthused by helping teams improve how they plan, collaborate and deliver.