Agile Delivery Manager

SCC; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Large benefits package

Flexible benefits scheme

2 volunteering days per year

Job summary

SCC is seeking an Agile Delivery Manager in Birmingham to lead delivery of application development and AI-driven solutions. You will guide multi-disciplinary squads from discovery through live service, ensuring quality and timely releases in a hybrid office/remote setup.

The role requires coordinating with Product Owners, Architects, QA and development teams, maintaining roadmaps and delivering against milestones. BPSS/SC security clearances are noted as necessary.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Agile delivery across multiple teams.
• Proven track record with hybrid Agile/Waterfall approaches.
• CSM, PSM I/II, PMI-ACP, AgilePM or PRINCE2 Agile certification.
• Ability to obtain UK security clearance (BPSS/SC).

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of application and AI development initiatives, ensuring sprint outcomes and milestones are met.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and ensure effective planning, backlog refinement and reviews.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, BA, Architects, Developers and QA for clear requirements and acceptance.
• Maintain and optimise product backlogs, sprint backlogs, roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Identify and remove impediments to maintain delivery flow and protect milestones.
• Provide regular delivery reporting to stakeholders on progress and risks.

Skills

Agile coaching

Scrum

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

CI/CD

Job description

About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: Agile Delivery Manager

Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: £65000 - £75000 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday

Interview Process: 2-stage process

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company

Role purpose:

Responsible for leading the Agile delivery of application development and AI-driven solutions, ensuring teams deliver high-quality features, increments and releases aligned to customer and business needs. The role is delivery-focused but strongly embedded in modern practices, guiding multi-disciplinary development squads from initial discovery through development, testing, release and transition to live service. The Agile Delivery Lead ensures predictable milestone delivery, supports engineering efficiency and fosters a culture of continuous improvement and Agile maturity across teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive delivery of application and AI development initiatives, ensuring sprint outcomes, milestones and delivery commitments are met.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies for development squads, ensuring strong sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and reviews.
  
• Work closely with Product Owners, BA, Architects, Developers, and QA to ensure clarity of requirements and acceptance.
  
• Maintain and optimise product backlogs, sprint backlogs, roadmaps and delivery plans.
  
• Support engineering teams in setting delivery controls including, defining user stories, estimating and planning achievable goals.
  
• Identify, track and remove technical and delivery impediments to maintain flow and protect delivery.
  
• Monitor and improve delivery performance metrics such as velocity, throughput and cycle time.
  
• Collaborate with engineering leads on design milestones, integration points and development quality standards.
  
• Champion engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated testing and incremental delivery.
  
• Manage risks, issues and dependencies across multiple development teams with clear mitigation plans.
  
• Provide regular delivery reporting to stakeholders covering progress, risks and release readiness.
• Foster continuous improvement and Agile maturity across all development teams.
  
• Build trusted relationships with customers and internal product stakeholders.
  
• Ensure development deliverables meet quality, performance, security and acceptance standards.
  

Skills and experience:

• Strong understanding of application development lifecycles and modern engineering processes.
  
• Passion for Agile, Scrum and iterative delivery with ability to coach teams.
  
• Experience delivering complex software projects using Agile and Hybrid Agile frameworks.
  
• Agile qualifications such as CSM, PSM I/II, PMI-ACP, AgilePM or PRINCE2 Agile.
  
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to ensure delivery predictability.
  
• Broad technical knowledge enabling strong collaboration with engineering teams.
  
• Ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly.
  
• Strong business acumen aligning delivery with strategic objectives.
  
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for senior stakeholders.
  
• Ability to build trusted relationships with technical and non-technical teams.
  
• Experience with Agile delivery tools such as Jira.
  
• Ability to obtain required UK Security Clearance.

Note: This role requires you to have BPSS and SC security clearances.

About Us

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer

SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

Diversity & Inclusion at SCC - https://www.scc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/

Sustainability at SCC - https://www.scc.com/sustainability-at-scc/

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