Hybrid Agile Delivery Manager

at Spektrix

• Job title: Agile Delivery Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Agile Delivery Manager leading delivery in agile software teams at Spektrix, focused on the arts and technology sector. Supporting high-performance culture and continuous improvement among diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring alignment between the product owners, tech leads, engineering managers, and stakeholders to support effective delivery.
• Ensuring team delivery progress is communicated with business and engineering stakeholders.
• Ownership of team delivery processes - ensuring delivery targets, goals, and timescales are met.
• Ensuring team delivery processes are aligned with our engineering-wide delivery practices and processes.
• Ensuring teams are working efficiently and effectively, using objective data, delivery statistics and reflection cycles to facilitate continuous improvement in processes, workflows, and engineering practices.
• Ensuring accessible delivery metrics are created and maintained, to facilitate delivery forecasting, decision making, and information sharing.
• Ensure that teams can work without unnecessary distractions to enable better flow and focus.
• Ensuring blockers are removed, and agreeing clear priorities with product owners and stakeholders so that teams always have clear objectives.
• Supporting teams and individuals through coaching Lean practices & Kanban, knowledge sharing, problem-solving and facilitation.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of applying Lean and Kanban to help develop high-performing teams in a continuous delivery environment.
• Experience working with and configuring Jira
• Good knowledge and experience of coaching and facilitation in various agile practices, using data to coach teams in continuous improvement.
• Demonstrable experience of working across multiple teams and navigating complex team dynamics to build high-trust, high-collaboration environments
• Proven experience in planning, risk management and effective organisation of work and workflow
• Proven ability in stakeholder management and handling communication between engineering teams and the rest of the business.
• A collaborative approach to working with colleagues across different roles, supporting everyone to succeed

Benefits

• Flexible working with support for WFH set up. Different teams may have different practices that require people in the office or online at specific times.
• NHS top up scheme (covering dental, optical, therapy & counselling, prescription and other health related costs)
• Continuous development supported by Line manager, learning budget
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption & Shared Parental Leave
• 35 days paid leave annually, inclusive of annual leave, bank holidays and a Birthday day off, all able to use flexibly
• 4 weeks paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
• 2 volunteering days per year
• Company pension scheme of 4%
• Free snacks, drinks and breakfast items in all our offices
• Varied range of regular socials across all our offices
• Cycle to work & Season Ticket Loans
• Travel stipend for commuting