Agile Delivery Lead

Work on Technology That Protects What Matters

At SiXworks, we build secure digital solutions that support Defence and National Security missions. Our teams work on complex problems where reliability, security, and speed of innovation matter.

As an Agile Delivery Lead, you'll be responsible for enabling successful delivery outcomes for an agile team. The role combines servant delivery, stakeholder communications, planning, day-to-day management and agile ceremony facilitation. Agile Delivery Leads create the conditions for high-performing teams, provide delivery transparency and forecasting, manage risks and dependencies, and work closely with customers and technical teams to maximise the value of the delivery outcomes.

The highest level of security clearance is required for this role

• Lead delivery planning activities and facilitate agile events that enable effective execution, transparency and continuous improvement.
• Possess technical literacy and ability to understand the detail of a solution, architecture and delivery approach to effectively facilitate team collaboration.
• Work closely with a multidisciplinary delivery team on a day-to-day basis to identify blockers, manage dependencies, improve flow and maintain delivery momentum.
• Coordinate and manage dependencies across team members, suppliers and customer organisations to maintain delivery progress and minimise delivery risk.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, showcases and retrospectives, ensuring the team has clarity on priorities and delivery objectives.
• Effectively drive the removal of impediments to team progress.
• Use delivery metrics and team feedback to identify opportunities to improve predictability, quality, efficiency and delivery outcomes.
• Support release planning and deployment activities, ensuring delivery commitments remain realistic and achievable.
• Champion agile and lean delivery practices, tailoring ways of working to achieve successful outcomes within the customer environment.
• Lead through influence, coaching and servant leadership, creating empowered teams capable of delivering sustainable high performance.

• Align business, technical and customer stakeholders around priorities, risks, dependencies and delivery objectives.
• Be responsible for all stakeholder communications, meetings, scheduling, note-taking and action tracking.
• Build effective relationships with customer representatives, suppliers and internal delivery stakeholders.
• Support the Product Owner, Technical Lead and wider delivery leadership to ensure the roadmap, plans and priorities remain achievable and aligned.
• Foster positive spaces for collaboration, negotiation and, as required, mediation to help weigh up the most valuable outcomes against conflicting opinions in a safe team setting.

• Maintain delivery transparency through effective forecasting and metric-driven, evidence-based reporting.
• Support and contribute to governance reviews, programme reporting and delivery assurance activities, providing accurate delivery data and insight.
• Drive delivery performance by proactively managing risks, dependencies, delivery flow, scope, quality and team capacity.
• Support delivery leadership in managing resource demand, utilisation and financial performance whilst ensuring delivery teams remain effective and sustainable.

• Work with Business Development, Business Analyst and Requirements Leads to develop costed delivery plans for future contract scope increases and new business.

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