Agile Delivery Manager

Agile Delivery

• Lead Agile delivery across cross-functional Product and Technology teams.

• Facilitate effective Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.

• Work with Product Managers and teams to ensure backlogs are well structured, prioritised and ready for delivery.

• Support teams in breaking complex initiatives into manageable increments.

• Monitor delivery progress and identify risks, blockers and dependencies early.

• Drive resolution of impediments and escalate issues when required.

• Help teams maintain a sustainable and predictable delivery pace.

Planning & Execution

• Translate product roadmaps and strategic priorities into actionable delivery plans.

• Support quarterly planning, release planning and sprint planning.

• Coordinate dependencies across Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Operations and other stakeholders.

• Track key milestones and critical delivery paths.

• Ensure teams have clarity on objectives, scope, timelines and dependencies.

• Maintain visibility of delivery progress and emerging risks.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

You will act as a key connector across teams, ensuring that:

• Product and Engineering remain aligned.

• Design and research are incorporated early into delivery.

• Technology dependencies are understood and managed.

• QA and security activities are incorporated into the delivery lifecycle.

• Business and operational stakeholders are prepared for releases.

• External partners and vendors are appropriately coordinated where required.

Release Management

• Coordinate readiness for major product and technology releases.

• Ensure appropriate testing, quality, security, operational and business readiness activities are completed.

• Facilitate release planning and go-live coordination.

• Support post-release reviews and ensure lessons learned are incorporated into future delivery.

Agile Coaching & Continuous Improvement

• Coach teams on effective Agile and Lean practices.

• Help teams adopt the most appropriate delivery methodology for their context, including Scrum, Kanban or hybrid approaches.

• Identify delivery bottlenecks and systemic issues.

• Use retrospectives and delivery data to drive measurable improvements.

• Challenge ineffective processes and unnecessary bureaucracy.

• Help teams become increasingly autonomous and self-organising.

Delivery Reporting & Insights

Provide clear visibility of delivery performance to Product and Technology leadership, including:

• Delivery progress   

• Milestones   

• Risks and issues   

• Dependencies   

• Delivery forecasts   

• Sprint and release performance  

• Quality indicators   

• Key impediments

Educational Requirements

A bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, Information Systems or a related discipline is preferred.

Professional Requirements

Relevant certifications are advantageous, including:

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) 

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM) 

• PMI-ACP   

• SAFe   

• PRINCE2 Agile   

• ICAgile

Experience Requirements

We are looking for someone who combines strong Agile expertise with excellent delivery leadership and stakeholder management skills. You should have:

• 5+ years’ experience in Agile delivery, technology delivery, product delivery, programme delivery or a related field.

• Strong practical experience working with Scrum teams.

• Experience managing delivery across cross-functional teams.

• Experience working closely with Product Managers and Engineering teams.

• Experience managing dependencies, risks and delivery blockers.

• Experience coordinating technology or digital product releases.

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.

• Experience working in complex or enterprise environments.

• Strong problem-solving and facilitation skills.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Experience within Financial Services, Banking, FinTech, Asset Management or other regulated industries will be an advantage.