Delivery Manager

Salary: £432 – £456 per day

This is an exciting opportunity suited to someone who is proactive, enthusiastic and looking for a demanding role in a dynamic, fast-paced and Agile environment. 

Specific responsibilities will include:  ​​​​​

• Manage one or more agile projects, typically to deliver a specific product or transformation via a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled digital team.
• Deliver projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning – iterating frequently.
• Defining project needs and feeding these into the programme/portfolio process.
• Work with the Product Manager to define the roadmap for any given product and translate this into user stories.
• Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process – prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.
• Matrix-managing a multidisciplinary team. 
• Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (alpha/beta/production).
• Actively participating in the Delivery Manager community, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice

Experience:  ​​​​

• Managing the delivery of projects using the appropriate Agile project management methodology; 
• Application programming, security, operations, networking, APIs and API design; 
• Providing governance for integration and technical API standards; and 
• Coaching and mentoring, including in Agile. ​​​​​​​

Knowledge: ​​​​​​​

• Matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Using collaboration tools eg. Confluence and Jira
• ITIL awareness; and 
• DevOps approach and toolset.