Agile Delivery Lead

About The Role

Role: Agile Delivery Lead

Location: Remote

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: £65,000 - £75,000 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm, Monday – Friday

Interview Process: 2-stage process

Role purpose: Responsible for leading the Agile delivery of application development and AI-driven solutions, ensuring teams deliver high-quality features, increments and releases aligned to customer and business needs. The role is delivery-focused but strongly embedded in modern practices, guiding multi-disciplinary development squads from initial discovery through development, testing, release and transition to live service. The Agile Delivery Lead ensures predictable milestone delivery, supports engineering efficiency and fosters a culture of continuous improvement and Agile maturity across teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive delivery of application and AI development initiatives, ensuring sprint outcomes, milestones and delivery commitments are met.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies for development squads, ensuring strong sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and reviews.
• Work closely with Product Owners, BA, Architects, Developers, and QA to ensure clarity of requirements and acceptance.
• Maintain and optimise product backlogs, sprint backlogs, roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Support engineering teams in setting delivery controls including, defining user stories, estimating and planning achievable goals.
• Identify, track and remove technical and delivery impediments to maintain flow and protect delivery.
• Monitor and improve delivery performance metrics such as velocity, throughput and cycle time.
• Collaborate with engineering leads on design milestones, integration points and development quality standards.
• Champion engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated testing and incremental delivery.
• Manage risks, issues and dependencies across multiple development teams with clear mitigation plans.
• Provide regular delivery reporting to stakeholders covering progress, risks and release readiness.
• Foster continuous improvement and Agile maturity across all development teams.
• Build trusted relationships with customers and internal product stakeholders.
• Ensure development deliverables meet quality, performance, security and acceptance standards.

Skills and experience:

• Strong understanding of application development lifecycles and modern engineering processes.
• Passion for Agile, Scrum and iterative delivery with ability to coach teams.
• Experience delivering complex software projects using Agile and Hybrid Agile frameworks.
• Agile qualifications such as CSM, PSM I/II, PMI-ACP, AgilePM or PRINCE2 Agile.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to ensure delivery predictability.
• Broad technical knowledge enabling strong collaboration with engineering teams.
• Ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly.
• Strong business acumen aligning delivery with strategic objectives.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience with Agile delivery tools such as Jira.

About Us

[Employer hidden] is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer

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