Agile Delivery Lead
Posted 4 days ago by Thebes Group
£350 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Agile Delivery Lead role is a 6-month contract position based in London, requiring a hybrid working arrangement. The successful candidate will coordinate day-to-day activities of IT Services squads, ensuring effective delivery of critical infrastructure services for an insurance client. This position demands experience in agile methodologies and infrastructure systems, along with strong communication and facilitation skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Apply end-to-end delivery across allocated initiatives/projects, including financial management and resource balancing.
- Guide and support a cross-disciplined squad utilizing Agile values, principles, and practices.
- Utilize JIRA boards for change delivery, participating in backlog collation and prioritization.
- Help the squad meet commitments, remove impediments, and escalate issues as necessary.
- Provide appropriate levels of governance across assigned initiatives/projects.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, both verbally and in writing.
Key Skills:
- At least 3 years of experience in IT or Infrastructure functions.
- Experience using PM tools such as JIRA.
- Infrastructure systems experience.
- Experience with agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.
- Previous experience in engineering or project management/delivery.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience within platform services/platform engineering/cloud/infrastructure teams is beneficial.
Salary (Rate): £350 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Role: Agile Delivery Lead
Contract: 6 months
Location: London – Hybrid 2 days on-site
Rate: £350 (Inside IR35)
Key Essential Skills:
- At least 3 years of experience working in an IT or Infrastructure function(s)
- Experience using PM tools such as Jira
- Infrastructure systems experience is essential to enable understanding of the initiatives
- Experience in working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, or at least a core understanding of this way of working
- Previous or current experience within engineering or project management/delivery is essential
Desirable:
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Must be able to work independently and proactively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Beneficial to have experience within platform services / platform engineering / cloud / infrastructure teams
Overview:
An exciting opportunity to join us on a contract basis with an immediate start. We’re looking for an Agile Delivery Lead (ADL) to join our IT Services team to deliver and maintain hiscritical infrastructure services for our insurance client. The succesful candidate will have have responsibility for the coordination of the day-to-day activities of the squads that make up our IT Services value streams. As an experienced Agile Delivery Lead/Project Manager, you will perform a hybrid role where you will be expected to coach the squad/s to continuously improve their Agile ways of working, alongside having delivery responsibility for initiatives or assigned work. This role would suit seasoned Delivery Leads or Project Managers who have operated within agile environments, as well as candidates coming from an Infrastructure Engineering background with a desire to move toward Delivery.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Apply end-to-end delivery across any allocated initiatives/projects including financial management/reconciliation of spend and balancing of resources – it is essential to have hands-on delivery of infrastructure or technical projects/initiatives
- Guide and support a cross-disciplined squad utilising Agile values, principles and practices to deliver value to our business
- Utilise JIRA boards to facilitate change delivery by actively participating in the collation and prioritisation of the backlog
- Help the squad to meet their commitments, remove impediments and dependencies as much as possible, escalate where appropriate when the squad is off track, and ensure they take appropriate action
- Provision of appropriate levels of governance across assigned initiatives/projects
- Communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing
Outline Thebes Group:
Thebes Group is a leading UK wide IT infrastructure technology consultancy. We are well-known for our extensive talent pool of highly competent IT professionals and exclusive Academy programmes, which provide a great opportunity to undertake technical training in core disciplines. Thebes work with a number of leading vendors, Government, financial institutions and insurance companies including investment banks, brokers and hedge funds. To see our list of core capabilities please click here. Thebes does IT solutions & services differently from most other IT service providers. As an Assured Outcome Provider (AOP) we have spent fifteen years willingly sharing the client’s risk with them by focusing on outputs (i.e. quality service & solutions and ROI) rather than inputs (i.e. pricelists and headcount). We do this by fitting our skills, solutions & capabilities to needs, augmenting our staff with enthusiastic professionals from our Academy programme and remaining flexible as our clients’ needs change.