Agile Delivery Lead

IBM SiXworks; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SiXworks in the United Kingdom is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to enable successful delivery outcomes for agile teams within secure, high-assurance environments. You will lead delivery planning, facilitate ceremonies, and manage dependencies with customers and suppliers while maintaining delivery momentum.

The role requires strong agile leadership, technical literacy in software/IT infrastructure, and experience delivering for government or MoD contexts.

Qualifications

• Experience leading agile projects or products in a Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, or Project Manager role.
• Ability to facilitate multidisciplinary delivery teams and coach teams in agile ways of working.
• Strong technical literacy with software development and/or IT infrastructure delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery planning and facilitate agile events to enable execution, transparency and continuous improvement.
• Manage dependencies, blockers and risks to maintain momentum and delivery velocity.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, meetings and action tracking across customers, suppliers and internal teams.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum Master

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder comms

Technical literacy

Govt delivery

AI tech 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

Your work may include:

Team Delivery & Leadership

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

Occasional visits to Herefordshire required

What We’re Looking For

We value people who take ownership, think critically, and enjoy working as part of a collaborative team tackling complex challenges. You don’t need to tick every box, but we’re particularly interested in people with skills/experience in:

• 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.
• 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 delivering secure, mission-critical technology to Defence and National Security organisations. We focus on digital experimentation, secure-by-design architecture, cloud technologies, and rapid application development to 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 Inclusivity our North Star for how we work. SiXworks is a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and focused on fail-safe-fast cutting-edge technology 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.

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)