Senior Agile Delivery Manage

Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Location: Newcastle, Leeds, or Birmingham (Minimum 60% Office Attendance Required)

Role Overview

The Senior Agile Delivery Manager is a technical delivery leader responsible for the hands-on delivery of software within a modern engineering environment. This is not a purely administrative role; you will be embedded with engineering teams, navigating technical trade-offs, and driving the end-to-back software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

1. Hands-on Agile Delivery

• Team Leadership: Act as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for software engineering teams on a day-to-day basis.

• Ceremony Management: Lead high-impact sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Flow Optimization: Actively remove blockers, manage scope, and maintain delivery momentum across sustained periods of active build.

2. Technical Engagement & Engineering Quality

• Direct Collaboration: Work alongside developers, testers, and DevOps engineers to manage modern software engineering lifecycles.

• Technical Fluency: Confidently engage in discussions regarding technical trade-offs, resilience, security, and recoverability.

• Modern Standards: Drive delivery within environments utilizing CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and cloud-native services.

3. Stakeholder Influence & Governance

• Strategic Influence: Challenge and guide senior technical and non-technical stakeholders using evidence-based reporting.

• Transparency: Build trust through consistent performance metrics and radical transparency regarding delivery health.

• Change Management: Complete delivery-related governance and change activity (e.g., ServiceNow).

4. Planning & Coordination

• Backlog Management: Refine prioritized backlogs in partnership with Product Managers and Technical Leads.

• Risk Mitigation: Proactively manage cross-team dependencies and complex risks.

• Tooling Mastery: Utilize Jira effectively for tracking and reporting at both the team and initiative level.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Software Build Experience: Proven track record in active software product delivery (Cloud migrations or CRM implementations alone are insufficient).

• Engineering Environment: Recent experience working directly with teams using:

  • Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)

  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

  • CI/CD tooling and Automated Testing

• Agile Expertise: Expert-level application of Scrum/Kanban in a "build" rather than "maintenance" context.

• Stakeholder Management: Experience influencing at the senior leadership level.

• Complex Problem Solving: Ability to navigate technical concerns like system security and service resilience.

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.