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Role: Agile Delivery Lead
Location: Remote
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: £65,000 - £75,000 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm, Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose:
Responsible for leading the Agile delivery of application development and AI-driven solutions, ensuring teams deliver high-quality features, increments and releases aligned to customer and business needs. The role is delivery-focused but strongly embedded in modern practices, guiding multi-disciplinary development squads from initial discovery through development, testing, release and transition to live service. The Agile Delivery Lead ensures predictable milestone delivery, supports engineering efficiency and fosters a culture of continuous improvement and Agile maturity across teams.
Key responsibilities:
- Drive delivery of application and AI development initiatives, ensuring sprint outcomes, milestones and delivery commitments are met.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies for development squads, ensuring strong sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and reviews.
- Work closely with Product Owners, BA, Architects, Developers, and QA to ensure clarity of requirements and acceptance.
- Maintain and optimise product backlogs, sprint backlogs, roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Support engineering teams in setting delivery controls including, defining user stories, estimating and planning achievable goals.
- Identify, track and remove technical and delivery impediments to maintain flow and protect delivery.
- Monitor and improve delivery performance metrics such as velocity, throughput and cycle time.
- Collaborate with engineering leads on design milestones, integration points and development quality standards.
- Champion engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated testing and incremental delivery.
- Manage risks, issues and dependencies across multiple development teams with clear mitigation plans.
- Provide regular delivery reporting to stakeholders covering progress, risks and release readiness.
- Foster continuous improvement and Agile maturity across all development teams.
- Build trusted relationships with customers and internal product stakeholders.
- Ensure development deliverables meet quality, performance, security and acceptance standards.
Skills and experience:
- Strong understanding of application development lifecycles and modern engineering processes.
- Passion for Agile, Scrum and iterative delivery with ability to coach teams.
- Experience delivering complex software projects using Agile and Hybrid Agile frameworks.
- Agile qualifications such as CSM, PSM I/II, PMI-ACP, AgilePM or PRINCE2 Agile.
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to ensure delivery predictability.
- Broad technical knowledge enabling strong collaboration with engineering teams.
- Ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly.
- Strong business acumen aligning delivery with strategic objectives.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for senior stakeholders.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with technical and non-technical teams.
- Experience with Agile delivery tools such as Jira.