Senior Agile Delivery Manager - Agile Kanban Lead

DESCRIPTION

- Oversee and manage a team of Agile Delivery Managers;
- Providing guidance, mentoring and training in agile delivery across the team;
- Manage one or more agile projects, typically to deliver a specific product or transformation via a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled digital team;
- Deliver projects and products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning
- Defining project needs and feeding these into the programme/portfolio process;
- Work with the Product Manager to define the roadmap for any given product and translate this into user stories;
- Lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team;
- Matrix-managing a multidisciplinary team;
- Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of quality for the stage (Alpha/beta/production);
- Actively participating in the Delivery Manager community, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, helping to ensure that products are delivered in a manner that is aligned with wider business service development activities.
- Work with the Product Owner and a genuinely co-located multi-disciplinary team of approximately 30 people; policy experts, interaction designers, business analysts, technical and security staff to design, build and iterate our services.
- Remove blockers that relate to our service delivery activities. 
- Create an environment conducive to self-organising people and teams, and be ready to step in with advice where needed.
- Get the best out of both Agile and non-Agile team members with guidance and support in understanding requirements.
- Maintain discipline in an environment with conflicting priorities and demands.
- Help to bridge the different disciplines in the team in order to enable effective delivery from everyone.