Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Role: Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Duration: 12 months

Day rate: £500-600 per day ( inside IR35)

Locations: Newcastle, Leeds or Birmingham

On-site: Minimum 60% office attendance (Hybrid)

In this role you would join a newly formed software engineering team focused on a defined backlog of 20-30 items around service security, testability, resilience and recoverability. This is very much a hands-on delivery role – not a coordination-only position.

What you would be doing

• Acting as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for a software engineering team day to day.
• Leading sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Removing blockers, managing scope, flow and prioritisation to maintain strong delivery momentum.
• Working closely with engineers, a Senior Technical BA and an Architect to ensure the backlog is technically ready, prioritised and executable.
• Managing risks, dependencies and complex backlogs, using Jira at both team and initiative level.
• Providing clear, evidence-based reporting and influencing senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Technical environment (you should be comfortable operating in most of these areas):

• Cloud platforms such as Azure and/or AWS as part of software product delivery (not migration-only).
• CI/CD tooling and modern DevOps practices.
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform).
• Automated testing and quality practices.
• Secure, resilient digital services.

What the client is specifically looking for

• Recent, hands-on agile delivery with software development teams in active build.
• Experience acting as a Scrum Master / Delivery Manager embedded with engineers.
• Practical experience with version control (e.g. Git), CI/CD and cloud-native or platform-based services.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and the ability to challenge and influence at senior level.
• High proficiency in Jira, plus familiarity with delivery governance tools (e.g. ServiceNow is a bonus).

Experience focused only on cloud migrations, Dynamics CRM or purely integration/database projects will not be sufficient unless there is clear, recent evidence of end-to-end software product delivery.

Why it might interest you

• Opportunity to lead delivery in a modern engineering setup where agile ways of working are taken seriously.
• Clear, technically focused backlog around security, resilience and reliability – not a vague transformation brief.
• Influential position engaging directly with senior stakeholders on a visible digital initiative.

If you are within a realistic commute of Newcastle, Leeds or Birmingham and this aligns with your recent experience, I would be keen to share more details and understand your availability and expectations.