senior agile delivery manage
Posted 2 days ago by 1775116864
£600 Per day
Inside
Onsite
birmingham, west midlands
Summary: The Senior Agile Delivery Manager is a technical leader responsible for the hands-on delivery of software within a modern engineering environment, engaging directly with engineering teams. This role requires navigating technical trade-offs and driving the software development lifecycle while ensuring effective team leadership and stakeholder management. The position demands a strong background in Agile methodologies and technical fluency in modern software practices. A minimum of 60% office attendance is required, with locations in Newcastle, Leeds, or Birmingham.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for software engineering teams on a day-to-day basis.
- Lead high-impact sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Actively remove blockers, manage scope, and maintain delivery momentum across sustained periods of active build.
- Work alongside developers, testers, and DevOps engineers to manage modern software engineering lifecycles.
- Confidently engage in discussions regarding technical trade-offs, resilience, security, and recoverability.
- Drive delivery within environments utilizing CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud-native services.
- Challenge and guide senior technical and non-technical stakeholders using evidence-based reporting.
- Build trust through consistent performance metrics and radical transparency regarding delivery health.
- Complete delivery-related governance and change activity (e.g., ServiceNow).
- Refine prioritized backlogs in partnership with Product Managers and Technical Leads.
- Proactively manage cross-team dependencies and complex risks.
- Utilize Jira effectively for tracking and reporting at both the team and initiative level.
Key Skills:
- Proven track record in active software product delivery (Cloud migrations or CRM implementations alone are insufficient).
- Recent experience working directly with teams using Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD tooling, and Automated Testing.
- Expert-level application of Scrum/Kanban in a "build" rather than "maintenance" context.
- Experience influencing at the senior leadership level.
- Ability to navigate technical concerns like system security and service resilience.
Salary (Rate): £600 per day
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Location: Newcastle, Leeds, or Birmingham (Minimum 60% Office Attendance Required)
Role Overview
The Senior Agile Delivery Manager is a technical delivery leader responsible for the hands-on delivery of software within a modern engineering environment. This is not a purely administrative role; you will be embedded with engineering teams, navigating technical trade-offs, and driving the end-to-back software development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
1. Hands-on Agile Delivery
Team Leadership: Act as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for software engineering teams on a day-to-day basis.
Ceremony Management: Lead high-impact sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
Flow Optimization: Actively remove blockers, manage scope, and maintain delivery momentum across sustained periods of active build.
2. Technical Engagement & Engineering Quality
Direct Collaboration: Work alongside developers, testers, and DevOps engineers to manage modern software engineering lifecycles.
Technical Fluency: Confidently engage in discussions regarding technical trade-offs, resilience, security, and recoverability.
Modern Standards: Drive delivery within environments utilizing CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud-native services.
3. Stakeholder Influence & Governance
Strategic Influence: Challenge and guide senior technical and non-technical stakeholders using evidence-based reporting.
Transparency: Build trust through consistent performance metrics and radical transparency regarding delivery health.
Change Management: Complete delivery-related governance and change activity (e.g., ServiceNow).
4. Planning & Coordination
Backlog Management: Refine prioritized backlogs in partnership with Product Managers and Technical Leads.
Risk Mitigation: Proactively manage cross-team dependencies and complex risks.
Tooling Mastery: Utilize Jira effectively for tracking and reporting at both the team and initiative level.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
Software Build Experience: Proven track record in active software product delivery (Cloud migrations or CRM implementations alone are insufficient).
Engineering Environment: Recent experience working directly with teams using:
Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
CI/CD tooling and Automated Testing
Agile Expertise: Expert-level application of Scrum/Kanban in a "build" rather than "maintenance" context.
Stakeholder Management: Experience influencing at the senior leadership level.
Complex Problem Solving: Ability to navigate technical concerns like system security and service resilience.
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.