Senior Agile Delivery Manager
| Posting date: | 17 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £51,997 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2024 |
| Location: | Swansea |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 356168/1 |
Summary
Do you have a passion for developing your colleagues around you?
Do you enjoy helping people discover better ways of working?
We are currently recruiting for an Agile Delivery Manager to join our IT Services (ITS) directorate and we'd love to hear from you!
At the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), we encourage applications from everyone, particularly groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. We pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has and promote inclusivity and equality of opportunity for all. Our recruitment process is anonymised, which means that your name, date of birth and other personal details will not be seen by the sift panel.
You will be responsible for communicating effectively with highly technical people and be at the front end of building solutions. You will be required to draw on your management and team leadership expertise, you will ensure that software meets the engineering standards and requirements specified by the business, and successfully deliver into production.
The Agile Delivery Manager will actively build and promote an agile approach and environment, whilst ensuring the successful delivery of multiple outcomes via multi-disciplinary teams.
The DVLA is committed to personal development and this position has a learning framework in place, encompassing Scrum Alliance qualifications up to and including guide level certifications (Certified Team Coach & Certified Enterprise Coach).
If you would like to meet and talk with one of our Agile Delivery Managers, find out more about the role, the digital team and what it’s like to work at DVLA then we are organising a familiarisation session where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Monday 24th June at 12:30pm.
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Responsibilities
Key accountabilities will include:
- To effectively drive and lead ITS’ management of performance and quality of service by the facilitation of backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives. Being accountable for driving the delivery of service against performance.
- To ensure individual and organisational learning and development opportunities for Agile Methodologies are fully exploited by continuously assessing your team’s approach and sharing your knowledge with other ADMs in order to enhance organisational capability and understanding in this area whilst driving initiatives forward.
- To lead and manage effective and continuous development, implementation and evaluation by creating transparency and predictability across teams using appropriate Agile tools and metrics and align with the IT Strategy.
- Responsible for line management and coaching of multi-disciplined teams of highly skilled engineers, and ensuring that they are set up to successfully deliver against the IT Strategy.
- Responsible for creating a team environment that engenders delivery at pace whilst also remaining flexible enough to adapt to changing business priorities, and championing and coaching best-practice across the DVLA agile community.
For further information about the role please see the attached role profile.
Additional information
Applications will be accepted from full time/part time/job sharers. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week. Part time and/or flexible working may also be available subject to the needs of the business. If you have a flexible or part time working requirement, you should contact the vacancy holder in advance of making an application to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your desired working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role. To contact the vacancy holder, please use the job contact details listed under ‘Contact point for applicants’.
This role will be based in Swansea, and we will be operating a hybrid working model that allows you to work between home and on-site giving you greater flexibility about where and when you work, subject to business needs and this also allows for ongoing support, development, and collaboration with colleagues.
Therefore, the expectation is that you will spend a minimum of 60% of your working time based at your principal workplace (DVLA). We would encourage you to discuss the working arrangements for this role with us during the recruitment process.