Senior​/Lead Agile Delivery Manager

Lead Agile Delivery Manager
3 days pw in Leeds
£650.00 (Inside IR35)
Government experience is essential

We’re looking for someone to help drive key strategic initiatives that strengthen and support our delivery teams. This role works closely with our engineering strategy group to shape shared capabilities, technical enablers, and well-documented components that underpin feature delivery. You’ll be collaborating across multiple teams and work streams to identify needs, build services, and keep delivery moving smoothly. Need to have lead, mentored and coached junior members.

Key Responsibilities

Plan, run, and track sprint goals while acting as Scrum Master and leading core agile ceremonies.
Handle essential follow-ups and admin tasks, including Change Requests in Service Now.
Quickly understand business priorities, OKRs, and technical roadmaps.
Provide clear, timely reporting and communicate progress openly.
Support the Product Manager in maintaining an organised backlog across several work streams.
Remove blockers and guide the team to deliver outcomes efficiently and release value regularly.
Proactively manage dependencies, risks, and issues.
Build strong relationships with delivery teams, partners, and other Delivery Managers across Health and the wider organisation.
Communicate effectively using a range of styles to suit different audiences.
Apply agile delivery practices with a problem-solving mindset and a focus on continuous improvement.
Work closely with software development teams to coordinate planning and execution.
Use tools such as Service Now, Jira, Mural or Lucid for day-to-day delivery support.
Strong GDS experience Technical Awareness
Familiarity with cloud and engineering technologies including Azure, AWS, Terraform, Git branching approaches, and release pipeline setup/maintenance