Agile Delivery Lead

SiXworks; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical cover

Life Assurance

Pension (10% employer, 5% employee)

Bonus and training support

Secure parking

On-site gym café and restaurant

Job summary

SiXworks in the United Kingdom is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to enable successful deliveries for an agile team. You will facilitate ceremonies, manage risks and dependencies, and forecast delivery outcomes while collaborating with customers and technical teams.

A high level of security clearance is required. You will lead planning, track progress, remove blockers and coach teams to optimize value delivery in complex, high-assurance environments, with a focus on predictability and continuous

Qualifications

• Experience leading the delivery of agile projects in a Scrum Master, Delivery Manager or Project Manager role.
• Experience facilitating a multidisciplinary delivery team.
• High technical literacy and experience in software development and/or IT infrastructure delivery.
• Experience configuring and using Agile Delivery Management tooling including Jira, GitLab and Confluence.
• Experience managing risks, dependencies, delivery reporting and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience delivering outcomes within complex, high assurance environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery planning activities and facilitate agile events to enable effective execution, transparency and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate and manage dependencies across team members, suppliers and customer organisations to maintain delivery progress.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, showcases and retrospectives.
• Drive removal of impediments to team progress and improve predictability, quality and efficiency.
• Support release planning and deployment activities to keep commitments realistic and achievable.
• Champion agile and lean delivery practices and coach teams in effective ways of working.
• Lead through influence and servant leadership to empower high-performing teams.
• Maintain delivery transparency through forecasting and metrics-driven reporting.
• Align stakeholders around priorities, risks and delivery objectives.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Facilitating multidisciplinary teams

Technical literacy

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

High assurance delivery experience

Tools

Jira

GitLab

Confluence

Job description

Work on Technology That Protects What Matters

At SiXworks, we build secure digital solutions that support Defence and National Security missions. Our teams work on complex problems where reliability, security, and speed of innovation matter.

What You’ll Do

As an Agile Delivery Lead, you'll be responsible for enabling successful delivery outcomes for an agile team. The role combines servant delivery, stakeholder communications, planning, day-to-day management and agile ceremony facilitation. Agile Delivery Leads create the conditions for high-performing teams, provide delivery transparency and forecasting, manage risks and dependencies, and work closely with customers and technical teams to maximise the value of the delivery outcomes.

The highest level of security clearance is required for this role

Yourworkmayinclude:

• Lead delivery planning activities and facilitate agile events that enable effective execution, transparency and continuous improvement.
• Possess technical literacy and ability to understand the detail of a solution, architecture and delivery approach to effectively facilitate team collaboration.
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary delivery team on a day-to-day basis to identify blockers, manage dependencies, improve flow and maintain delivery momentum.
• Coordinate and manage dependencies across team members, suppliers and customer organisations to maintain delivery progress and minimise delivery risk.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, showcases and retrospectives, ensuring the team has clarity on priorities and delivery objectives.
• Effectively drive the removal of impediments to team progress.
• Use delivery metrics and team feedback to identify opportunities to improve predictability, quality, efficiency and delivery outcomes.
• Support release planning and deployment activities, ensuring delivery commitments remain realistic and achievable.
• Champion agile and lean delivery practices, tailoring ways of working to achieve successful outcomes within the customer environment.
• Lead through influence, coaching and servant leadership, creating empowered teams capable of delivering sustainable high performance.

Stakeholder & Customer Management

• Align business, technical and customer stakeholders around priorities, risks, dependencies and delivery objectives.
• Be responsible for all stakeholder communications, meetings, scheduling, note-taking and action tracking.
• Build effective relationships with customer representatives, suppliers and internal delivery stakeholders.
• Support the Product Owner, Technical Lead and wider delivery leadership to ensure the roadmap, plans and priorities remain achievable and aligned.
• Foster positive spaces for collaboration, negotiation and, as required, mediation to help weigh up the most valuable outcomes against conflicting opinions in a safe team setting.

Delivery Governance & Assurance

• Maintain delivery transparency through effective forecasting and metric-driven, evidence-based reporting.
• Support and contribute to governance reviews, programme reporting and delivery assurance activities, providing accurate delivery data and insight.
• Drive delivery performance by proactively managing risks, dependencies, delivery flow, scope, quality and team capacity.
• Support delivery leadership in managing resource demand, utilisation and financial performance whilst ensuring delivery teams remain effective and sustainable.

Business Growth & Mobilisation

• Work with Business Development, Business Analyst and Requirements Leads to develop costed delivery plans for future contract scope increases and new business.

WhatWe’reLookingFor

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Essential

• Experience leading the delivery of agile projects/products in a Scrum Master, Delivery Manager or Project Manager capacity.
• Experience facilitating a multidisciplinary delivery team.
• High technical literacy and experience in software development and/or IT infrastructure delivery.
• Experience configuring and using Agile Delivery Management tooling including Atlassian Jira, Gitlab, Confluence.
• Experience managing risks, dependencies, delivery reporting and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience delivering outcomes within complex, high assurance environments.

Desirable:

• Previous delivery to MoD and/or Government agencies.
• Agile Delivery qualifications (e.g. Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Scrum Master / Agilist).
• Experience coaching teams in agile ways of working and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Experience with AI and other cutting-edge technologies.

Just as important are curiosity, strong problem solving ability, and the motivation to continuously improve how technology is designed and delivered.

About SiXworks

SiXworks is a specialist digital innovation partner deliveringsecure, mission-critical technologyto Defence and National Security organisations. We focus ondigital experimentation, secure-by-design architecture, cloud technologies, and rapid application developmentto help our customers move faster and stay ahead of evolving challenges.

Our team combines expertise from across technology, business, and operational backgrounds including the armed forces creating a collaborative environment where practical thinking and innovation thrive.

Why Join Us

Our culture is guided by six principles:Agility, Security, Innovation, Quality, Collaboration and InclusivityourNorth Starfor how we work. SiXworksis a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and focused on fail-safe-fastcutting-edgetechnology solutions deployed in highly secure environments.

As an end-to-end digital innovation and delivery partner, we turn complex challenges into mission-critical digital advantages. This is a thrilling time for us, with ambitious plans for growth. We are looking for brilliant, experienced, driven and self-motivated people to join the team on our journey.

We offer competitive salaries and a package that supports your wellbeing and development, including 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, free Private Medical cover and Life Assurance, Generous pension (10% employer, 5% employee contribution), Bonus and Professional development and training support. In addition to secure parking, gym, café & restaurant on site and lots of open break out spaces.

A word on UK Security Clearance

Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have or be eligible to obtain the highest level of Security Clearance. More details relating to UK Security Clearance can be found here:

United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)