Contract Agile Delivery Manager (Remote Europe)

Location: Remote (EU-based, GMT timezone)

Department: Engineering

Hours: Full-time (B2B Contract)

About YLD: Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role: As a Delivery Lead, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the success of our software engineering projects, being proficient at problem-solving and helping craft scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

About You: A YLD Software Delivery Lead is a highly-skilled person who exemplifies the highest standard in software engineering and enjoys sharing their knowledge and experience with others. You’ll have the opportunity to build and deliver software within some interesting projects, both in terms of the product and the methodology. We work in an Agile environment (Scrum) with a test-first mindset (actually, writing code without tests should be unthinkable). We are also big advocates of pair programming, and nothing is released until we have a code review. You have a real passion for problem-solving and are an active learner who gets excited by working collaboratively with those around you.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• Facilitating and leading agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives;
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to remove impediments and promote continuous improvement;
• Championing Agile principles and practices to create a culture of transparency, accountability, and teamwork;
• Supporting and coaching development teams in the adoption of Agile and Scrum practices;
• Working closely with Product Owners and Client Partners to prioritise and groom the product backlog;
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and incorporate best practices. Assist in the evaluation of new technologies and tools to improve the development process;
• Participating in regular show-and-tells to promote your work to both your department and the wider company.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• Agile team facilitation
• Scrum & Kanban experience
• Quarterly planning OKRs & Metrics experience
• Business Change Project and Programme Management
• Ability to engage technical and non-technical business teams
• Helping end users adapt to new learning infrastructure processes
• Ability to mobilise change and build relationships remotely
• Support the wider delivery community in identifying opportunities to add value to their delivery strategy & success so far
• Ability to thrive and add value to a low politics, high empathy and support environment

What you’ll get in return: The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business.

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Final Interview with someone from the Leadership team (1h)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.