Location
London
Contract Type
Permanent

About The Role

Purpose

As the Agile Delivery Manager, you are a Manager and true leader who serves the Scrum Team, and larger organisation. You are accountable for the Squad’s effectiveness and outcomes in: 

  • Leading the Squad in Sprint delivery; enabling the achievement of the committed value within each product increment and technically prioritised Sprint backlog
  • Creating the sprint goal and maintaining Sprint backlog
  • Collaborating with the Product Manager/Owner for building and maintaining the Product Roadmap
  • Breaking down the product vision & strategy into tactical execution. 

You are responsible for driving the removal of impediments & blockers, risks and dependencies enabling the Squad to improve their ways of working and increase then maintain their ability to deliver quality outcomes with speed and efficiency. 

Responsibilities

  • Align to the role of Scrum Master according to the Scrum Guide.
  • Lead, train and coach the organisation in its Agile adoption.
  • Provide leadership to the squad to effectively deliver the Product Roadmap, partnering with the Product Manager/ Product Owner, Analysts, Developers, Testers and Lead Engineer.
  • Build and maintain the technical and business readiness plans to ensure successful delivery of the Product Roadmap and committed value each quarter and sprint.
  • Collaborate with the Product Manager/ Product Owner on effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
  • Sustain a focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
  • Ensure that BAU change & maintenance is baked into the delivery roadmap.
  • Provide or seek clarity with and for the Squad, to ensure that the why, what and how is known by all.
  • Works with the squad to check/challenge/encourage their quality & pace throughout the increment & sprint.
  • Ensure that Agile events are positive, productive and timeboxed and liaises with Chapter Leads to create experiments to continuously improve ways of working.
  • Encourage the Squads understanding of the 7IM Agile framework and enable them to improve their practices.
  • Empower the Squad to self-manage, understand, and use data to support continuous improvement in delivering change and value safely.
  • Effectively manage and track impediments, risks, and dependencies, dissolving them where possible.
  • Enable close collaboration and clear communication with stakeholders and the team.
  • Actively participate, share ideas, and drive improvement in the Agile Delivery Chapter. 
  • Manage and integrate any 3rd party supplier effectively into the Squad delivery and ways of working.
  • While not directly interacting with customers, your actions should align with upholding the FCA's Consumer Duty principles, thereby contributing to fair and beneficial outcomes for our clients. 
  • Adherence to all applicable compliance standards and be practices at all times.
  • Acting consistently in accordance with 7IM VPVPs.
  • Other, as reasonably required by your manager and 7IM

About You

Skills 

  • Experience of working on workflow and CRM solution deliveries is desirable. 
  • Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering mentorship, coaching, and leadership both individually and at Squad levels. 
  • Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
  • Use of PowerBI / ADO / Jira work management or similar tools to support agile ways of working.
  • Experience of collecting and using data to drive team improvement.
  • Confident delivering formal and informal training.
  • A flexible, resilient facilitator, able to explain the ‘why’.
  • Able to facilitate sessions to help the team break down complex solutions into smaller, achievable chunks of work.
  • Adept at influencing behaviour cross-team and cross-discipline without having formal organisational hierarchy. 
  • Listens to the team and empowers them to tackle challenges. 

Qualifications 

  • Recognised Professional Scrum Master qualification desirable.  
  • Practical experience working with a software engineering team. 

Other relevant information 

  • This role reports to the Head of Agile Delivery Lead.  
  • Must be passionate about Agile principles and enthusiastic to embed them across Transformation and the wider organisation. 
  • A continuous improvement attitude and dedication to finding new way of working. 

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