Agile Delivery Manager

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Agile Delivery Manager required to work for a Government Department based in Westminster, London. This is an initial 6 month contract, outside of IR35, paying up to £550 per day.

Main Responsibilities:

* 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 _ iterating frequently.

* 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.

Experience Required:

* Experience as an Agile Digital Delivery manager

* Experience working in an agile environment - Scrum, Kanban

* Python, Ruby or Java experience

* AWS experience

* LEAN experience

* TDD experience

* Strong coaching skills

* Ability to get a team up and running quickly.

Please apply should you meet the above criteria

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