Job description
Role: Contract Agile Delivery Manager
Length: 3 Months
Rate: £450- £550 Per Day
Location: Winchester (Mainly remote)
IR35 Status: Outside
Our client, based in Winchester, is looking for a Contract Agile Delivery Manager who can Lead a team to successfully deliver to stakeholder expectations. They would be responsible for managing scope, schedule, budget, and quality levers, managing dependencies and RAIDs within the team and across the organisation. The overall task is to Build a high performing delivery machine.
Experience
- 5+ years of experience working as an Agile Project Manager, Iteration Manager and/or Scrum Master
- 3+ years of experience working in any software development team role
- Experience working with agile delivery methods
- Experience working with a cross-functional software development team
Skills
- An inspired sense of shared purpose within the project team
- A defined roadmap and well understood success criteria aligned to delivery needs
- Consistent transparent, and accessible communications to all stakeholders internal and external
- Realistic and regular expectation setting and negotiation
- Risk mitigation
- People support and growth
- Creation of deployment systems/processes to reduce-friction-with external dependencies
- Reduced cycle time of stories from grooming through deployment
- Clear escalation paths for issue management through project stakeholders
- Continuous team reflection and improvement
- Creation of cross-functional teams that have the right balance of skills and capacity to be autonomous and performant.
