Technical Delivery Lead/Manager - Permanent - Salary 85K & Flexible

Job Description:

As a Technical Delivery Lead at Senior Consultant grade your responsibilities would be expected to include:

• Overseeing the delivery of products and services or functional components using agile methodologies
• Managing and facilitating a cross-functional agile delivery team of Technical Architects, senior developers, and DevOps engineers.
• Coordinating agile methodology ceremonies such sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Working with the Product Managers and Product Owners to create product roadmaps.
• Overseeing the creation of a backlog of prioritised and refined user stories with acceptance criteria
• Ensuring that the end products are of the highest quality, fully tested and deployed within timelines.
• Coordinating activities across teams and the delivery life cycle including Business & Systems Analysis, Creative, Content. Architecture, Development, Test, Business Change, and Project Management
• Working closely with programme leadership to monitor progress, manage risks and dependencies.
• Using data insights to inform the performance of the team and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Assisting with resourcing needs of the agile delivery team for the appropriate mix of experience and capability
• Assisting with coaching and mentoring to the team and looking for continuous improvement opportunities
• The performance management of delivery team members, providing opportunity for self-development.
• Encourage respect and inclusion, leading by example

Requirements.

To qualify for the role, you should have:

It would be desirable for you to also have:

• Previous technical experience and awareness of micro services Architecture, AWS, Java, Python Postgres, Jenkins/Any CI, GIT, Selenium, Junit/TestNG, Cucumber/Gherkin, REST/API Testing, SOAPUI/Postman
• Experience in managing both development and testing teams, including performance management and line management
• Hands on working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence.
• Packages and platforms used for Agile software development, testing and delivery management.
• Designing and building digital solutions that meet the GDS Service Standard The political, commercial and technology challenges faced by the Central Government.
• Hands on Agile delivery experience ie as a Agile Delivery Manager or Scrum Master or Technical project lead, working on digital or technology projects either at a leading consultancy, agency or Government organisation
• Experience in working on digital projects which have included cross functional teams such as Designers, Researchers, UX, Product Owners & Developers Agile or Scrum Master certification, or be willing to attain the certification
• Experience in coordinating ceremonies associated with Agile delivery, such as planning sessions, reviews and retrospectives
• Experience in running workshops, in particular getting to the root cause of the problem
• Displays Innovative leadership behaviours - coaching the team, self-organising, transparent, respectful to people's working styles, motivating
• A self-starter, comfortable working in both process driven and ambiguous environments
• Experience and a passion for working within Central Government and other sectors.
• Experience in dealing with the commercial side of project delivery such as Statements of Work (SOWs), balance scorecard, supplier contracts and reports.
• Proven capability of working successfully with senior client stakeholders and end-users, quickly building successful relationships and establishing credibility
• A passion for digital and technology, with the drive and determination to continually learn new things and develop yourself and others
• Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of attention to detail
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work independently in a highly collaborative, team-based environment