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As part of our ongoing growth, we are looking to expand our Data Ops and Engineering team, innovate our technology stack and mature our current ways of working. This mid-level Agile Delivery Manager role is critical in driving this innovation forward as well as ensuring we continue to deliver high quality work for our clients. The Agile Delivery Manager is responsible for leading and implementing Agile principles whilst working alongside Developers to ensure teams understand and benefit from these methodologies. They will act as a facilitator to remove blockers and enable ease of working using Agile principles, as well as ensuring successful delivery by the technology team. This role will work closely with client facing teams to ensure understanding of high impact and detailed requirements. You will have an in-depth understanding of Agile principles and practices and technical capability for identifying and prioritizing the most critical areas of the delivery.
Job Responsibility:
Understand objectives of Client Projects and the role our Technology team play in them, ensuring we work together to achieve them successfully
Use your experience of high-level planning and your detail-orientated approach to guide and manage your team towards success. Oversee and keep up to date all team duties, ensuring delivery milestones are met and the team is proactive and fully engaged
Maintain and develop positive working relationships with stakeholder and colleagues across our agency, collaborate with them to define and refine requirements, backlogs and priorities, keeping them up to date on delivery at all stages
Support and empower multi-disciplined teams ensuring they are motivated, collaborative and working well together
Maintain and successful delivery of a roadmap of work in accordance with business priorities
Identify and manage risks, Issues and dependencies ensuring delivery to agreed timescales
Facilitate, coordinate and manage SCRUM ceremonies such as planning, refinement, stand-ups and retrospectives
Encourage and foster a culture of continuous improvement, championing an agile mindset across the team and into our wider business
Oversee successful delivery into production, identifying obstacles and helping the team to overcome them
Lead, influence and coach others, including those more senior, on the implementation and adoption of best practice Agile methodologies
Requirements:
Digital products experience is essential
Proven experience leading delivery within software development or technical engineering for multiple concurrent clients, customers or stakeholders
Working with multi-disciplined matrix teams
Significant knowledge of introducing and coaching Agile methodologies and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and Lean
Hands-on knowledge configuring and using tools that support agile and collaborative working, e.g. Jira, confluence, project planning software
Good understanding of the holistic lifecycle of Software Development and previous experience of implementing DevOps practices within an organization
Understand and advocate DevOps culture and squad mentality in SDLC
Excellent facilitation skills and change management experience
Great interpersonal and communication skills and a passion for Agile
An analytical mindset with a passion for data.
Nice to have:
Technical understanding of BI solutions and a Cloud Data stack
Experience of, or a keen interest in, the business of sport
What we offer:
Renowned Team Days often throughout the year
Summer Away Days
23 standard days of holiday (+ 1 Birthday, +2 for a ‘Big Life Event’ and +1 Admin Day), closure of office over Christmas (plus Bank Holidays)
Discretionary Bonus based on company performance
Performance Reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases
Private healthcare (Vitality) and/or Health Care Plan (Medicash)