Agile Delivery Manager (Software)

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Our reward package

The Met Office is recruiting for a Agile Delivery Manager (Software) based at our Exeter HQ.

As our Agile Delivery Manager (Software), your starting salary will be £45150.00 with opportunities to progress to £49890.00 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima.

You will also receive a market forces supplement of £4,500 per annum paid quarterly, pro-rated from the date of taking up the appointment to 31 March 2022 - this scheme is currently under review.

Our total reward package is potentially worth up to £68,111 per annum, which includes basic salary, market forces supplement, potential corporate bonus, employer pension contributions.

We also offer: - Outstanding Civil Service Pension - Flexible hours and homeworking - Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave - Cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel - Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories

We operate hybrid working. That means 40% of your time will be in office to work collaboratively with colleagues, and 60% deciding with your manager what works best for you. If that means working from home we will support you to do so; and if you work better together with colleagues then you can choose to work in our extraordinary office for up to 100% of the time. If you are interested in being based at a different location, or if you would like to enquire about part time hours please get in touch with us.

Who we are

We are the Met Office, the national meteorological service for the UK. We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, helping people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

Our services are delivered through exceptional scientific, technological and operational expertise. We have a team of excellent people, working to deliver extraordinary impact, making us one of the most trusted forecasters in the world.

The UK Government has invested heavily in Met Office IT, with a £1.2B investment in a new supercomputer capability that will help us to increase our forecasting capability, but IT is only as good as the teams that can exploit it.

We're especially open to applications from neurodiverse candidates, or those returning to work after a career break, or those for with caring responsibilities for whom full time working isn't ideal. We're even happy to work with you to give you more time to just explore the beautiful coasts, moors and rivers of the southwest. We'll do our best to agree a working pattern that suits you.

Our values - it's who we are:

We're a force for good

We're experts by nature

We live and breathe it

We're better together

We keep evolving

We're the Met Office, come and join us and help us to make a difference.

Job Purpose

As a Delivery Manager, you will:

Build and maintain software delivery teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well

Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them

Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services

Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team

Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques

The role will require onsite working at least 2 days a week.

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

This is a Senior Role within the Met Office and as such we would expect 2+ years demonstrable experience in leading software teams in this this or similar roles, i.e Scrum Master. One should be able to demonstrate not only knowledge of the standard agile processes but also the reasons and principles behind these processes.

Agile and Lean practices You know how to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices. You are a recognised expert that advocates these approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. You can create or tailor new ways of working; you are always innovating.

Life-cycle perspective. You can apply experience of multiple parts of the software product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop. You can recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet these. You are able to work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. You can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.

Maintaining delivery momentum. You know how to optimise the delivery flow of teams. You actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists. You can identify innovative ways to unblock issues. You can identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. You can challenge and improve organisational processes affecting the teams cadence.

Planning. You know how to lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment. You can plan beyond product delivery. You can identify dependencies in plans across services and coordinate delivery. You know how to coach other teams as the central point of expertise.

This role will be subject to an online deductive reasoning test as part of the selection process.

Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but your application will be even stronger if you have:

Agile Accreditation, i.e. Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org, SAFe, Management 3.0

Previous background in software development.

How to apply and additional information

To apply, please click on the link below and attach the most recent version of your CV, along with a cover letter which briefly states your experience against each essential and desirable criteria. Closing date Sunday 7th November 2021 with interviews commencing from w/c 15th November. We update all applicants once the vacancy has closed and applications have been reviewed. At present, all interviews are taking place remotely via Microsoft Teams.