Agile Delivery Manager

7IM; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Scrum Master, where you'll lead Agile teams to enhance their effectiveness and foster a culture of continuous improvement. In this dynamic role, you'll be responsible for coaching teams, facilitating Agile events, and ensuring high-value delivery. Your expertise in Agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban will empower teams to overcome challenges and achieve their goals. This innovative firm values your mentorship and leadership, providing an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on their transformation journey. If you're passionate about Agile and ready to drive change, this role is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• Experience working with a software engineering team.
• Passionate about Agile principles and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Agile events are productive and timeboxed.
• Coach the Squad to self-manage and improve practices.
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration and remove barriers.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)

PowerBI

ADO

Jira

Data analysis for team improvement

Mentorship and coaching

Facilitation skills

Education

Professional Scrum Master qualification

Tools

PowerBI

Jira

ADO

Job description

About The Role

Purpose

As a Scrum Master, you are accountable for the Squad’s effectiveness, including its interaction with stakeholders, the portfolio, and other teams. You are responsible for removing impediments that enable the Squad to improve their ways of working and to maintain their ability to deliver quality outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Agile events are positive, productive, and timeboxed
• Encourage the Squad's understanding of the Agile framework and enable them to improve their practices
• Help the team focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done
• Coach the Squad to self-manage and use data to support continuous improvement in delivering change and value safely
• Liaise with Chapter Leads for individual development where appropriate
• Facilitate impediment resolution
• Manage and track impediments, risks, and dependencies
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration as requested or needed
• Remove barriers between stakeholders and Squads
• Help find techniques for effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management
• Help the Squad understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog items
• Actively participate, share ideas, and drive improvement in the Scrum Master Chapter
• Lead, train, and coach the organization in its Agile adoption
• Present on sprint and quarter progress in terms of performance and flow metrics

Qualifications

About You

• Recognized Professional Scrum Master qualification desirable
• Practical experience working with a software engineering team

Skills

• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering mentorship, coaching, and leadership both individually and at squad levels
• Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban
• Experience with PowerBI / ADO / Jira work management or similar tools to support agile ways of working
• Experience in collecting and using data to drive team improvement
• Confident in delivering formal and informal training
• A flexible, resilient facilitator, able to explain why
• Able to facilitate sessions to help the team break down complex solutions into smaller, achievable chunks of work
• Adept at influencing behaviour cross-team and cross-discipline without formal organisational hierarchy
• Listens to the team and empowers them to tackle challenges

Other Relevant Information

• This role reports to the Agile Delivery Lead
• Must be passionate about Agile principles and enthusiastic about embedding them across Transformation and the wider organisation
• A continuous improvement attitude and dedication to finding new ways of working

About Us

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