Senior Agile Delivery Lead, Secure Defense Tech

SiXworks; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave + bank holidays

Private Medical cover

Life Assurance

Generous pension (employer 10%)

Bonus and training support

On-site parking, gym, cafe & dining

Job summary

SiXworks is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to enable successful delivery outcomes for a Scrum-based, multidisciplinary team in a defence-focused environment. You’ll facilitate ceremonies, manage risks and dependencies, and partner with customers and technical teams to maximise value.

The role requires strong delivery leadership, technical literacy and experience with Jira, GitLab and Confluence. It involves guiding teams in high-assurance settings and ensuring predictable, high-quality results.

Qualifications

• Experience leading agile delivery of projects/products in a Delivery/PM capacity.
• Ability to facilitate multidisciplinary delivery teams and ceremonies.
• High technical literacy with software development or IT infrastructure delivery experience.
• Experience configuring and using Agile Delivery Management tooling (Jira, GitLab, Confluence).
• Proven record of managing risks, dependencies and stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery planning and facilitate agile events to enable execution and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate a multidisciplinary team to identify blockers and maintain momentum.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, showcases and retrospectives.
• Drive removal of impediments and use metrics to improve predictability and quality.
• Support release planning and deployment activities while keeping commitments realistic.
• Align stakeholders on priorities, risks and delivery objectives.

Skills

Agile Delivery Leadership

Scrum Master / Delivery Manager

Stakeholder Management

Technical Literacy

Risk & Dependency Management

Tools

Jira

GitLab

Confluence

Job description

SiXworks is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to enable successful delivery outcomes for a Scrum-based, multidisciplinary team in a defence-focused environment. You’ll facilitate ceremonies, manage risks and dependencies, and partner with customers and technical teams to maximise value.

The role requires strong delivery leadership, technical literacy and experience with Jira, GitLab and Confluence. It involves guiding teams in high-assurance settings and ensuring predictable, high-quality results.