Agile Delivery Manager

Role: Agile Delivery Manager

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.

• 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.

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

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm Monday - Friday

• 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

• 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.