Agile Delivery Lead

Job Purpose

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery governance across internal and supplier teams, including dependency management, milestone tracking, risk and issue management, and stakeholder reporting.
• Perform the Scrum Master role for a high-performing multidisciplinary team and establish standards for delivery.
• Schedule user stories into sprint plans and facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Manage risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and blockers to support the flow of value.
• Coach the team in Agile and Scrum practices, self-organisation, empowerment, sustainable pace, and maturity improvement.
• Work with Technical Product Owners to refine backlogs, commit stories to sprints, and visualise progress.
• Support Technical Product Owners in managing business expectations and transparency across backlogs and schedules.
• Define and improve Agile Delivery Management processes and best practices, including conflict resolution.
• Ensure acceptance criteria, Definition of Done, and quality management plans are followed.
• Maintain an agile project management tool such as ScrumDesk or JIRA.

Qualifications

• Degree, honours degree, or equivalent qualification in computer science or a similar subject.
• Certified Scrum Master with three years of practical Scrum management experience; PMI-ACP transition exemptions apply to existing SDCs.
• At least five years of IT experience in agile delivery within small or medium technology change programmes.
• Proven leadership and project delivery experience in a matrix organisation with global teams.
• Proficiency with MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, and similar software delivery tools.
• Ability to communicate specialist information clearly to all stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills reflecting openness, honesty, and respect.

Salary and Benefits

• The role offers an attractive tax-free salary.
• Travel benefits include discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world.