Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master

(1387) IBM Service Centre UK Limited; Hursley; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech consulting firm in Hursley is seeking a Project Manager with expertise in Cognitive & Analytics to design and implement innovative solutions for clients. You will manage project lifecycles and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure delivery success. With opportunities for growth through training and certification, this role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams. Applicants must reside in the UK and hold valid work rights.

Benefits

Training opportunities

Promotion and progression opportunities

Work-life balance tools

Diversity & Inclusion programs

Employee Assistance Program

25 days holiday

Qualifications

• Experience in designing, implementing, and integrating cognitive and analytics solutions.
• Formal project management training or certification (e.g., PMP, CAPM) preferred.
• Strong background in leading cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead project lifecycles from initiation to closure, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis and develop communication plans.
• Capture business/data quality rules and design data quality reports.

Skills

Cognitive computing

Analytics

Project management

Agile delivery

Data governance

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

JIRA

Job description

At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.

A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM CIC. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking a Project Manager with expertise in Cognitive & Analytics to lead our cognitive computing and advanced analytics projects! In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and integrating cognitive and analytics solutions for our clients. Your responsibilities will include managing project lifecycles, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and integrate cognitive and advanced analytics solutions for clients.
• Lead project lifecycles, from initiation to closure, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis, develop communication plans, and facilitate Design Thinking sessions.
• Configure cognitive services, develop user interfaces, and create metadata management repositories.
• Capture business/data quality rules, design data quality reports & dashboards, and work with technical resources to automate monitoring and reporting.

Required education: None

Preferred education: Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Extensive experience in cognitive (Watson) and analytics API's, services, and solutions.
• Formal project management training or certification (e.g., PMP, CAPM).
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Background in Agile delivery of next-generation Cognitive Computing and Advanced Analytics projects.
• Experience with data governance technologies for data quality and metadata management.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Experience with issue tracking processes and tools (e.g., JIRA).
• Understanding of stochastic systems and their probabilistic output.
• Knowledge of traditional project management principles and tools.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law.