Agile Delivery Lead
Location: London or York
Salary: £70,000-£72,000 + bonus & excellent benefits
About the Company
Join a market-leading, global insurer committed to delivering world-class technology solutions that underpin its business operations. As part of the IT Services team, you’ll help drive the evolution of critical infrastructure services, ensuring seamless delivery across their global business. As an Agile Delivery Lead, you will play a pivotal role in supporting high-performing teams and ensuring successful delivery within an Agile environment.
About the Role
As Agile Delivery Lead, you’ll be responsible for coordinating and driving the day-to-day activities of the IT Services squads. This is a hybrid role that blends Agile coaching with hands-on project delivery, making it ideal for experienced Delivery Leads or Project Managers who have worked in Agile environments.
In this role, you’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, helping to embed Agile best practices, remove impediments, and ensure smooth and effective delivery of technical initiatives. Your ability to manage stakeholders, facilitate collaboration, and drive continuous improvement will be key to success.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply end-to-end delivery across any allocated initiatives/projects including financial management/reconciliation of spend and balancing of resources – it is essential to have hands-on delivery of infrastructure or technical projects/initiatives
- Guide and support a cross-disciplined squad utilising Agile values, principles and practices to deliver value to our business
- Utilise JIRA boards to facilitate change delivery by actively participating in the collation and prioritisation of the backlog
- Help the squad to meet their commitments, remove impediments and dependencies as much as possible, escalate where appropriate when the squad is off track, and ensure they take appropriate action
- Provision of appropriate levels of governance across assigned initiatives/projects
- Communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing
What We’re Looking For
Must Haves:
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in IT or Infrastructure function(s)
- Infrastructure systems experience to enable understanding of the initiatives
- Hands-on experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) or at least a core understanding of this way of working
- Background in project management, Agile delivery, or engineering
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, presentation and facilitation skills and able to work independently
- Proactive, adaptable and can-do approach, thriving in fast-paced environments
Desirable:
- Experience within platform services, platform engineering, cloud, or infrastructure teams.
If you’re an experienced Agile Delivery Lead or Agile Project Manager with a passion for driving impactful change within a dynamic environment, we’d love to hear from you.
To find out more or for a confidential chat, contact gail.still@cvmpeople.com
