Agile Delivery Manager

As the Agile Delivery Manager, you are aManagerand true leader who serves the Scrum Team, and larger organisation. You are accountable for the Squad’s effectiveness and outcomes in:

• Leading the Squad in Sprint delivery; enabling the achievement of the committed value within each product increment and technically prioritised
  
  Sprint backlog
• Creating the sprint goal and maintaining
  
  Sprint backlog
• Collaborating with the Product Manager/Owner for building andmaintainingthe Product Roadmap
• Breaking down the product vision & strategy into tactical execution.

Youare responsible for driving the removal of impediments & blockers, risks and dependencies enabling the Squad to improve their ways of working and increase thenmaintaintheir ability to deliver quality outcomes with speed and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Align to the role of Scrum Master according to the Scrum Guide.
• Lead, train and coach theorganisationin its Agile adoption.
• Provide leadership to the squad to effectively deliver the Product Roadmap, partnering with the Product Manager/Product Owner, Analysts, Developers,Tester sand Lead Engineer.
• Build andmaintainthe technical and business readiness plans to ensure successful delivery of the Product Roadmap and committed value each quarter and sprint.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager/Product Owner on effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
• Sustain a focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
• Ensure that BAU change & maintenance is baked into the delivery roadmap.
• Provide or seek clarity with and for the Squad, to ensure that the why,whatand how is known by all.
• Works with the squad to check/challenge/encourage their quality & pace throughout the increment & sprint.
• Ensure that Agile events are positive,productive and timeboxed andliaiseswith Chapter Leads to create experiments to continuously improve ways of working.
• Encourage the Squads understanding of the 7
  
  IMAgile framework and enable them to improve their practices.
• Empower the Squad to self-manage, understand,and use data to support continuous improvement in delivering change and value safely.
• Effectively manage and track impediments, risks,and dependencies, dissolving them where possible.
• Enable close collaboration and clear communication with stakeholders and the team.
• Actively participate, share ideas, and drive improvement in the Agile Delivery Chapter.
• Manage andintegrateany 3rd party supplier effectively into the Squad delivery and ways of working.
• While not directly interacting with customers, your actions should align with upholding the FCA's Consumer Duty principles, thereby contributing to fair and beneficial outcomes for our clients.
• Adherence to all applicable compliance standard sand be practices at all times.
• Acting consistently in accordance with7IM VPVPs.
• Other, as reasonably required by your manager and 7IM

Skills

• Experience of working on workflow and CRM solution deliveries is desirable.
• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering mentorship, coaching, and leadership both individually and at Squad levels.
• Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Use ofPower
  
  BI/ ADO / Jira work management or similar tools to support agile ways of working.
• Experience of collecting and using data to drive team improvement.
• Confident delivering formal and informal training.
• A flexible, resilient facilitator, able to explain the ‘why’.
• Able tofacilitatesessions to help the team break down complex solutions into smaller, achievable chunks of work.
• Adept at influencingbehaviourcross-team and cross-discipline without having formalorganisationalhierarchy.
• Listens to the team and empowers them to tackle challenges.

Qualifications

• Practical experience working with a software engineering team.

Other relevant information

• This role reports to theHead of Agile Delivery Lead.
• Must be passionate about Agile principles and enthusiastic to embed them across Transformation and the wider organisation.
• A continuous improvement attitude and dedication to finding newwayof working.