- Location: Hybrid (2 days per month on site)
- Contract: 12 months
- Clearance: Basic BPPS required
Job Description
- Role: Delivery Manager
- Rate: £650 per day (Inside IR35)
- Location: Hybrid (2 days per month on site)
- Contract: 12 months
- Clearance: Basic BPPS required
Role Overview
We are seeking a proactive and experienced Delivery Manager to join a multidisciplinary service team within an ambitious, modern organisation. The organisation is currently executing a major end to end digital transformation programme
Main Duties And Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile Ceremonies: Lead daily stand ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews to maintain momentum and foster continuous improvement
- Team Planning and Prioritisation: Support estimating, tracking, and delivery of team priorities aligned with business goals
- Workflow and Flow Metrics: Oversee the daily flow of work items from backlog to delivery, leveraging flow metrics to enhance predictability and efficiency
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers and technical leads to manage dependencies, understand priorities, and represent the team in programme level sessions
- Reporting and Insights: Track milestones, provide accurate delivery MI, and ensure clear visibility on progress, resourcing, and impediments
- Risk and Blocker Management: Proactively identify and mitigate risks, resolve dependencies across workstreams, and remove obstacles impeding team performance
- Incident Response: Act as a key escalation point during live incidents, aiding coordinated resolution and communication
- Continuous Improvement: Build team maturity in Agile ways of working and share best practice across the broader DDaT Directorate
Essential Skills
- Proven track record as a Delivery Manager leading cross functional Agile delivery teams (Dev, QA, Architecture, Product, Design) within broader programme structures
- Deep knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and flow metrics, alongside familiarisation with DevOps practices and automated delivery pipelines (automated testing, CI/CD)
- Expertise in agile tooling such as Azure DevOps, Actionable Agile, or similar platforms.
- Demonstrable experience in producing high value Project Delivery Management Information (MI) and data driven decision making
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical, non-technical, and organisational boundaries
- Proven ability to manage complex cross team dependencies, risks, and live incident escalations.
- Relevant Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager qualification
Desirable
- Dual experience or background as a Product Manager/Product Owner to help shape broader delivery direction
- Understanding of DSIT / CDDO digital and technology pipelines
- Track record of promoting the value and understanding of Agile methodologies both within and outside IT departments
£650.00 / day
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