Summary: The Agile Delivery Manager at Arup will lead the delivery of change within the Data programme using Agile methodologies, focusing on the expansion of a data lake and Business Intelligence capabilities. This role requires collaboration with Product Owners, Architects, and Business Analysts to ensure project success while removing impediments. The position is remote-first with occasional travel to London and is offered as an initial 6-month contract. The successful candidate will drive productivity and project tracking within the Agile framework.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide agile project delivery to ensure value from product development, focusing on aspects such as Service Transition, Financial Monitoring and Control, Dependency Management, Resourcing, Dependencies and Value tracking.
• Maintain product delivery momentum by knowing how to optimise the delivery flow of teams.
• Support internal customer projects that require technical products by managing the interfaces between the project and the customers.
• Adopt Arup's project management approach, ensuring Arup standard project monitoring and controls approaches are used to reflect the latest status whilst working closely with dedicated Business Change function for product enablement and adoption.
• Apply experience of multiple parts of the product life cycle, recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop.
• Recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet these.
• Work alongside other agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle.
• Plan and engage appropriate stakeholders at a particular stages in the project.
• Partner with Scrum Masters who lead the project scrum process as part of agile delivery management.

Key Skills:

• Good knowledge of agile methodologies, their ethics, and principles and how these relate to agile delivery management.
• Experience of agile delivery management partnering with Scrum Masters who lead the project scrum process.
• Work within a maturing Agile environment alongside specialists such as Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches to support Agile continuous improvement.
• You can identify innovative ways to unblock issues. You can identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them.
• You know how to lead a continual planning process in a complex environment. You can plan beyond product delivery. You can identify dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery.
• You actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists.
• Excellent skills in using and planning using Microsoft Project as well as Agile related products such as Jira/Confluence, Miro and Lucid.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: City of London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT