Delivery Manager

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Delivery Manager to enable a multi-disciplinary team to successfully deliver a new service and to support existing services. They will remove obstacles, or blockers to progress, helping the team to become more self-organising. They are able to communicate with technical and non-technical colleagues and customers alike, sharing ideas, skills and experience to ensure the whole team performs to its best. Location: TelfordDuration:6 monthsRate: £500.00-550.00 per day Why join? Our client who is a large and well-known Government body, who has set up their digital site to keep up with the modern and technological advanced customer base. This is an exciting time as the client is embarking on a bold plan to make the organisation the most digitally advanced organisation in the public sector. Essential Skills: Project Management (preferably qualified);Project delivery using Agile project management methods;Balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity;Matrix-management of multi-disciplinary teams;Collaboration tools ideally Confluence and Jira;Service Oriented Architecture;Continuous Integration environments and tooling; andMiddleware / Messaging productsProvides governance for two delivery centres;Manages the common integration platforms that connect internal and external services and customers;Provides a flexible and scalable framework for future service integration;Develops and supports the enterprise middleware platforms; andProvides governance for integration and technical API standards. Responsibilities will include: Managing the delivery of projects using the appropriate Agile project management methodology;Work with Product Managers to define the prioritised roadmap for the delivery and service;Matrix-managing a multi-disciplinary team;Facilitating project meetings and agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives;Tracking progress and providing status reports to projects and stakeholders;Enabling the team to produce estimates of how much effort will be required to produce features that the Product Manager wants; andCollaborating with colleagues to refine the DG's approach to Agile project management and service development