Agile Delivery Manager

Contract: 12 months

Rate: £700/day (Inside IR35)

Location: Hybrid – Newport office 1–2 days/month

Clearance: BPSS required, must be SC clearance eligible

Drive delivery on a major digital transformation programme.

We're looking for an experienced, proactive Delivery Manager to join one of our service squads as part of a large-scale digital transformation programme — modernising our technology estate while keeping live services running smoothly.

You'll work within a multi-disciplinary team of Development Engineers, Test Engineers, Technical Architects, Product Managers, User Researchers, Business Analysts and Service Owners, and join a wider Delivery Manager Community of Practice helping to raise the bar for delivery management across the DDaT Directorate.

What You'll Be Doing

* Facilitating Agile ceremonies — stand-ups, planning, retrospectives and reviews

* Supporting the team in estimating, tracking and delivering against business priorities

* Partnering with Product Managers and technical stakeholders on priorities and dependencies

* Overseeing workflow from backlog to delivery using flow metrics to improve predictability

* Tracking and reporting against milestones and forecasts

* Representing the team at programme-level sessions

* Identifying and managing risks and issues, with clear mitigation plans

* Acting as an escalation point during live incidents

* Proactively removing blockers to team performance

* Driving continuous improvement in agile maturity

* Managing cross-team dependencies across the wider programme

What We're Looking For

Essential:

* Proven experience leading cross-functional Agile delivery teams

* Extensive experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and working knowledge of DevOps

* Experience delivering as part of a wider programme

* Strong stakeholder communication across technical, non-technical and political boundaries

* Skilled facilitator of agile ceremonies and team collaboration

* Strong prioritisation, dependency and risk management skills

* Experience producing accurate, timely delivery MI and reporting

* Experience with agile tools such as Azure DevOps, ActionableAgile or similar

* Experience leading teams using automated delivery methods (CI/CD, automated testing)

* Ability to influence within DDaT and across the wider organisation

* Familiarity with Kanban flow metrics and data-driven decision-making

* A relevant Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager qualification (Prince2 not accepted)

Desirable:

* Product Manager / Product Owner experience

* Understanding of DSIT/CDDO digital and technology pipelines

* Experience promoting the value of Agile within and beyond IT
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed