Agile Delivery Lead: Drive Predictable Tech Delivery

Hiscox Insurance Company Inc.; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hiscox Insurance Company Inc. is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to own delivery for a cross-functional squad within the Engagement & Efficiency Platform.

The role focuses on planning, prioritising and delivering work in a predictable, sustainable manner, coordinating with Product Owners, engineers, analysts, architects and stakeholders to meet objectives. The ideal candidate will combine strong agile delivery expertise with excellent stakeholder management, planning and organisational skills to

Qualifications

• Significant experience as an Agile Delivery Lead, Delivery Manager, Scrum Master or similar role.
• Proven track record delivering technology initiatives in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban and Lean delivery practices.
• Experience with Jira and delivery reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong planning, organisation and risk management capability.
• Ability to influence without formal authority.
• Experience managing cross-functional technology teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery performance for the squad.
• Act as the trusted source of truth for delivery status, plans, risks and dependencies.
• Drive predictable, stable and sustainable delivery outcomes.
• Ensure delivery commitments are realistic, visible and actively managed.
• Escalate delivery issues early with clear mitigation plans.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency and continuous improvement.
• Maintain clear short, medium and long-term delivery plans.
• Understand and communicate priorities, timelines, resource constraints and dependencies.
• Coordinate delivery activities across engineering, business analysis, architecture and product functions.
• Proactively identify delivery risks and implement mitigation actions.
• Ensure all work is appropriately represented and traceable.
• Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and other delivery ceremonies.
• Help the team remove blockers and manage dependencies.
• Ensure work flows efficiently through the delivery lifecycle.
• Drive continuous improvement through delivery metrics, retrospectives and healthy challenge.
• Support the squad in maintaining a sustainable delivery pace.
• Build strong relationships with Product Owners and business stakeholders.
• Translate delivery complexity into concise, meaningful updates.
• Manage expectations through clear communication and transparent reporting.
• Provide accurate delivery forecasts and status reporting.
• Ensure stakeholders understand risks, constraints and required decisions.
• Maintain visibility of squad capacity and workload distribution.
• Identify over-allocation, bottlenecks and delivery constraints.
• Collaborate with platform leadership to maximise delivery effectiveness.
• Support prioritisation decisions using capacity and demand data.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Delivery Manager

Scrum

Kanban

Lean delivery

Jira

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional teams

Tools

Jira

Delivery reporting

Job description

Hiscox Insurance Company Inc. is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to own delivery for a cross-functional squad within the Engagement & Efficiency Platform.

The role focuses on planning, prioritising and delivering work in a predictable, sustainable manner, coordinating with Product Owners, engineers, analysts, architects and stakeholders to meet objectives. The ideal candidate will combine strong agile delivery expertise with excellent stakeholder management, planning and organisational skills to