DAT Agile Delivery Manager

Leeds, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom

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London or Leeds

Our Division helps the Bank to make the best use of data and analytics to achieve that. Pretty much everything the Bank does depends critically on the use of data and analytics, and the Bank has made our work a strategic priority. We have support from the Governor down and across the Bank, and our data transformation agenda has been identified as one of the Bank’s top strategic priorities.

As part of our team, you will contribute to outcomes of national importance today, while preparing the Bank to face the challenges of tomorrow.

We have lots of opportunities for people who want to grow. We need people to contribute their ideas, be entrepreneurial, and take the lead on new areas of work. You can gain broad exposure to the various parts of the Bank, giving you the option to move to other roles within the Bank in future.

We have a supportive culture that empowers people to be the best they can. This culture is reflected in staff survey results. Staff in our division tell us we are particularly good at giving recognition, praise and useful feedback, with 80% of staff saying they would recommend their manager to others.

• Focussed on what makes a difference
• Collaborative and inclusive
• Committed to iteration and incremental improvement
• Creating great products and services that make people’s lives easier
• Seizing opportunities and solving problems
• Learning, honing your skills, and gaining new skills
• Data and analytics!

• What can be achieved by using agile delivery principles to drive successful delivery and empowered, happy teams

This is a permanent role in the Strategy Implementation Framework (SIF) team, part of the Data Strategy Implementation Division at the Bank of England. The SIF team is responsible for designing, operating and continuously improving the delivery frameworks and supporting services, processes and tools used by teams across Data Analytics Transformation. Our framework applies agile and scaled agile methodologies and best practice.

Its current scope includes a quarterly planning framework, agile coaching service, delivery oversight, and identifying and resolving delivery blockers, for approximately 20 delivery teams across the three Divisions in the Data Analytics Transformation Directorate.

This role tailors and applies the principles of a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) ‘Release Train Engineer’ role to the current delivery environment in this Directorate of the Bank of England. You will be responsible for the live operational elements of the delivery framework, and be focussed on helping teams and senior leaders use these to set clear priorities, develop realistic plans, and work through challenges in delivery.

As the delivery framework itself is being developed iteratively, you will also play a key role in informing, designing and introducing into services framework changes. This will require you to gather and distil user feedback and insight to inform our backlog of framework changes. You will also oversee and contribute to our agile coaching service to teams and senior leaders, as the leader of our team’s small group of agile coaches.

The role will include:

• Facilitation of agile delivery events:

  Facilitating key events such as Program Increment (PI) planning, in-PI delivery oversight, and Inspect & Adapt sessions to ensure alignment and effective execution.

• Coaching and Mentoring:

  Coaching individuals, teams, and stakeholders on Agile principles and SAFe practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Identifying themes and prioritising agile coaching support across the wider agile coaching team.

• Delivery Coordination and Supprot:

  Overseeing the progress of the division in delivering PI plans by helping manage some dependencies, tracking PI objectives, and coordinating work across multiple teams to ensure value delivery.

• Risk and Impediment Management:

  Proactively identifying, managing and escalating risks or impediments that could hinder teams’ progress, ensuring that issues are addressed swiftly.

• Communication and
  
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