Agile Delivery Manager

WA Consultants is currently recruiting for an Agile Delivery Manager for an initial 12-month contract. Our client is looking for someone who can be onsite 60% of the time and has offices around the UK including Newcastle, Leeds or Birmingham.

Key Responsibilities

• Agile Delivery & Team Leadership: Lead an agile software delivery team, drive sprint planning/execution, proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies, and quickly build strong working relationships across engineering and delivery partners.
• Technical & Platform Competence: Operate effectively from day one with ServiceNow; strong Jira skills at team and programme level; familiarity with testing, data platforms & flows, and modern engineering practices; awareness of Azure, AWS, Terraform, Gti strategies, and release pipelines.
• Planning, Coordination & Execution: maintain ordered backlogs, create delivery plans, track progress, and ensure timely reporting and communication of delivery status to stakeholders.
• Problem Framing & Continuous Improvement: Perform discovery activities, quickly understand business needs and technical roadmaps; apply an agile mindset to remove impediments & innovate around constraints.
• Collaboration & Community Leadership: Work closely with Product Managers, engineering stakeholders, and other DMs, share rationale and best practice across the wider community.

Please note, this role has been deemed by our client to fall inside of IR35. For further information, please contact Alexander Wilson.

WA Consultants is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as described within The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

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