Agile Delivery Manager (12 months FTC)

About The Role

Purpose As the Agile Delivery Manager, you are a Manager and true leader who serves the Scrum Team, and larger organisation. You are accountable for the Squad’s effectiveness and outcomes in: - Leading the Squad in Sprint delivery; enabling the achievement of the committed value within each product increment and technically prioritised Sprint backlog - Creating the sprint goal and maintaining Sprint backlog - Collaborating with the Product Manager/Owner for building and maintaining the Product Roadmap - Breaking down the product vision & strategy into tactical execution. You are responsible for driving the removal of impediments & blockers, risks and dependencies enabling the Squad to improve their ways of working and increase then maintain their ability to deliver quality outcomes with speed and efficiency.

Responsibilities - Align to the role of Scrum Master according to the Scrum Guide. - Lead, train and coach the organisation in its Agile adoption. - Provide leadership to the squad to effectively deliver the Product Roadmap, partnering with the Product Manager/ Product Owner, Analysts, Developers, Testers and Lead Engineer. - Build and maintain the technical and business readiness plans to ensure successful delivery of the Product Roadmap and committed value each quarter and sprint. - Collaborate with the Product Manager/ Product Owner on effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management. - Sustain a focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done. - Ensure that BAU change & maintenance is baked into the delivery roadmap. - Provide or seek clarity with and for the Squad, to ensure that the why, what and how is known by all. - Works with the squad to check/challenge/encourage their quality & pace throughout the increment & sprint. - Ensure that Agile events are positive, productive and timeboxed and liaises with Chapter Leads to create experiments to continuously improve ways of working. - Encourage the Squads understanding of the [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Agile framework and enable them to improve their practices. - Empower the Squad to self-manage, understand, and use data to support continuous improvement in delivering change and value safely. - Effectively manage and track impediments, risks, and dependencies, dissolving them where possible. - Enable close collaboration and clear communication with stakeholders and the team. - Actively participate, share ideas, and drive improvement in the Scrum Master Chapter. - Manage and integrate any 3rd party supplier effectively into the Squad delivery and ways of working. - While not directly interacting with customers, your actions should align with upholding the FCA's Consumer Duty principles, thereby contributing to fair and beneficial outcomes for our clients. - Adherence to all applicable compliance standards and be practices at all times. - Acting consistently in accordance with [Employer hidden] VPVPs. - Other, as reasonably required by your manager and [Employer hidden].

About You

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

Skills - 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 having formal organisational hierarchy. - Listens to the team and empowers them to tackle challenges.

Other relevant information - This role reports to the Head of Agile Delivery. - 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 way of working.

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