Senior Agile Delivery Manager

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Inspire People Full time

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for three Senior Delivery Managers responsible for delivering products, services and workstreams of varying sizes, maturity and at different stages of the lifecycle (from discoveries through to live). Salary between £52,000 to £65,600 (dependent on competency and location) plus excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford.
DBT work in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver transformation which supports export and investment strategies. They use digital tools to allow UK businesses to take full advantage of trade opportunities, including those arising from delivering trade agreements, helping to facilitate UK exports as well as working on digital projects to support inward UK investment from abroad.
Delivery Managers in DBT work within a community of practice, supporting each other to improve agile practices across the department and deliver in line with the department's priorities of trade, investment, export promotion and support the UK's agenda for a Global Britain.
There are three roles available, one in the Licencing for International Trade and Enterprise 'LITE' programme, which has been established to deliver a new licensing platform for exporting and importing strategically controlled goods.
The other two roles will support the enabling teams in the Technology Services Portfolio.
One will work with the Technology Services team to deliver value through working with partners across government to deliver new systems that will transform government technology, whilst delivering customised solutions for DBT. The Technology Services team manage and assure the baseline platforms, applications and services that support DBT business objectives and outcomes by putting users and quality of service at the heart of what they do.
The other will manage the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team and deliver several priority technology and infrastructure projects and programmes across DDaT. The SRE team provides critical operational support to all DDaT services and teams. They also provide tooling for the day to day working of all development teams, make sure that all the development work adheres to policy standards, provide ongoing support for hosting, and CD/CI pipeline.
Helping to build the right environment for the team to deliver, collaborate, communicate, and focus on the most important outcomes
* Managing dependencies and risks across DBT and with other government departments to remove blockers or obstacles to delivery
* Using your understanding of agile practices to be able to adapt them to suit the team you are working with and guide continual improvement
* Line managing, mentoring and coaching other members of the professional community, your team, and possibly colleagues outside of DDaT
Experience of Agile and Lean practices in a cross functional team, with an emphasis on user-centred design
* Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
* The ability to support with governance/continuous improvement
* If you are applying for either of the technical delivery roles, it is also essential that you have
* Experience leading technical projects and/or programmes
It is desirable that you have:
* Experience of financial management
* Experience of commercial management
Agile and Lean practices
* Maintaining delivery momentum
* Planning
* a flexible, hybrid working environment with options like condensed hours
· a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
· a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
· annual leave starting at 25 days rising to 30 days with service
· an employee benefits programme including cycle to work
These roles can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas.



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