Job Description:

We need a Senior Agile Delivery Manager. The person needs to have experience/understanding of working in Agile projects.

• Proven experience as an Agile practitioner with a minimum of 5 years’ experience of organizing teams to deliver large scale, complex strategic projects.
• This person should personify Scrum and Agile.
• Planning - setting goals, defining roles and producing schedules of tasks.
• Executing - managing the project.
• Monitoring and controlling - tracking the project's progress; make sure it is controlled and within budget
• Lead and motivate your project team from both internal and external stakeholder organisations.
• Identify and manage risks to ensure delivery is on time.
• Evidence of building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and problem solving.
• A minimum of three years Scrum Master experience running multiple software development teams.
• Demonstrable evidence of facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown/Burn Up techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling issues/bugs)
• The ability to distinguish between what ‘is Scrum’ what is ‘not Scrum’
• Experience of being on multiple Scrum teams in a variety of different contexts (different team sizes, different organizations, different cultures, co-located vs. distributed)
• Track record of continued and recent education in Scrum, including training, conferences, user groups, self-study, etc.
• Knowledge of other approaches discussed in the Agile : XP, Kanban, Crystal
• Knowledge and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Experience of delivering software in a formal regime using source control management and controlled gates with relevant artefacts to support design, quality, and support.
• Experience of working in a mid-sized corporate environment, successfully aligning solutions appropriately with wider roadmaps, architecture, and other initiatives
• Previous experience as a collaborative leader
• Worked on Public Sector and GDS experience is must
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills
• Ability to hold team members accountable via appropriate empowerment, set clear performance standards, resolve performance issues, keep team engaged and on task
• closing - evaluating successes and challenges to enhance learning for your next project.
• Must be "self-motivated”, efficient and innovative
• Healthcare background is must