Agile Delivery Lead: Secure, Mission-Critical Tech

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

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Private Medical cover

Life Assurance

Pension (10% employer, 5% employee)

Bonus

Professional development and training

On-site parking

Gym and café on site

Secure on-site facilities

Job summary

SiXworks is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to enable successful delivery of agile teams delivering secure digital solutions for Defence and National Security. You will lead planning, manage risks and dependencies, and coach teams to continuously improve outcomes in high assurance environments.

Role requires strong stakeholder engagement, technical literacy, and experience with Agile tooling and governance. UK security clearance eligibility is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience leading agile projects in Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, or PM roles.
• Ability to facilitate multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Technical literacy with software or IT infrastructure delivery.
• Experience with Agile tools: Jira, Gitlab, Confluence.
• Experience managing risks, dependencies and stakeholder engagement.
• Delivery in high assurance or MoD/government environments.
• Agile qualifications (CSM, SAFe SM/Agilist).
• Coaching teams in agile methods and continuous improvement.
• Experience with AI and cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery planning and facilitate agile events to enable execution and transparency.
• Identify blockers and dependencies and maintain delivery momentum.
• Coordinate across team members, suppliers, and customer organizations.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, showcases and retrospectives.
• Support release planning and deployment activities.
• Coach teams in agile practices and foster continuous improvement.
• Align stakeholders around priorities and delivery objectives.
• Communicate with customers and internal delivery stakeholders.

Skills

Agile delivery leadership

Scrum Master / Delivery Manager

Stakeholder engagement

Technical literacy

AI technologies exposure

MoD/government deliveries

Delivery coaching

Risk & dependencies management

Tools

Jira

Gitlab

Confluence

Job description

SiXworks is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to enable successful delivery of agile teams delivering secure digital solutions for Defence and National Security. You will lead planning, manage risks and dependencies, and coach teams to continuously improve outcomes in high assurance environments.

Role requires strong stakeholder engagement, technical literacy, and experience with Agile tooling and governance. UK security clearance eligibility is a plus.