Agile Delivery Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee the delivery across various interconnected projects or workstreams to ensure alignment with program objectives.

• Maintain an overarching view of progress, risks, dependencies, and resource requirements across the program.

• Assist in shaping the roadmap and program-level planning alongside Technical Leads and product/strategy stakeholders.

• Facilitate alignment discussions among teams regarding priorities, architectural considerations, and sequencing.

• Lead delivery initiatives utilizing Kanban and flow-based agile methodologies across one or more teams.

• Ensure visibility of work-in-progress, blockers, throughput, and upcoming priorities.

• Aid teams in balancing feature delivery, technical debt, architectural enhancements, and research activities.

• Promote continuous flow, minimize bottlenecks, and guarantee smooth transitions between delivery phases.

• Provide succinct reporting for program sponsors and senior leadership.

• Monitor progress against objectives, milestones, and commitments across workstreams.

• Document key decisions, risks, issues, and actions in a lightweight, traceable manner.

• Assist in defining and enhancing TwinStream’s delivery governance model.

• Identify and manage program-level risks, escalating them as necessary.

• Coordinate dependencies across teams and vendors.

• Employ a pragmatic RAID process to facilitate mitigation actions.

• Support teams in addressing technical or organizational blockers.

• Act as the primary coordination point for engineering, Technical Leads, internal stakeholders, and relevant customers.

• Communicate delivery updates to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Align expectations regarding timelines, scope, assumptions, and emerging risks.

• Assist commercial teams during pre-sales, estimation, and contract/change discussions.

• Enhance TwinStream’s delivery framework, tools, and documentation.

• Establish scalable delivery patterns for complex, multi-stream programs.

• Foster transparency, psychological safety, and proactive delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be based in the UK.

• Eligible for DV clearance.

• Must fulfill UK Government residency and right-to-work requirements related to the necessary clearance level.

• Experience in managing software delivery across multiple teams or workstreams.

• Strong understanding of flow-based agile delivery and program-level planning.

• Proven capability in identifying cross-cutting risks, significant dependencies, and structural blockers.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Confident in operating within environments that appreciate structure while avoiding excessive processes.

• Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to provide clarity amidst uncertainty.

🏝️ Benefits

• Pension plan with an 8% employer contribution.

• Comprehensive private medical healthcare including dental and optical care for you and your family.

• Autonomy in learning and development.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Electric vehicle leasing scheme via salary sacrifice.

• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.

• Quarterly meetings.

• Christmas and summer parties.

• Life assurance.

• Cycle-to-work scheme.