Agile Delivery Lead

Job Description:

Are you passionate about driving delivery excellence and empowering teams to succeed? We're looking for an Agile Delivery Lead to join our Data Product Function, where you'll work closely with Data Product Owners, Technical Leads, and Data Governance experts. This hands-on, dynamic position combines agile discipline with pragmatic delivery management. You'll be responsible for ensuring our data initiatives are delivered with quality and trust, spanning areas like Data Ingestion, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, and Governance. You'll remove blockers, manage end-to-end release processes, and embed agile ways of working that foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across our multidisciplinary squads.

In this role, you'll be a vital part of our wider Commercial team, supporting them with seamless delivery of high-value data products that inform strategic business decisions. By working flexibly alongside other Agile Delivery Leads, you'll help create a consistent, supportive environment that promotes shared learning and effective coverage across squads. Ultimately, your contribution will be instrumental in advancing our data strategy, ensuring our data assets evolve in a way that maximises value, trust, and agility for the business.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you'll be doing:

• Facilitate agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog reviews, and retrospectives to keep squads focused and efficient.
• Work with the Data Product Owner to plan sprints that align with the overarching product roadmap, business priorities, and strategic objectives.
• Identify and resolve risks, issues, and dependencies to keep delivery on track and remove blockers.
• Manage the release process, making sure releases are well-coordinated, controlled, and meet business needs.
• Take a hands-on approach to delivering data products, helping squads achieve real results while encouraging innovation and learning.
• Use your agile expertise to coach teams, improve delivery processes, and track performance to boost productivity.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, BI, Data Governance, Data Modelling, and QA teams to ensure smooth delivery.
• Ensure all delivery activities follow governance standards, quality practices, and data standards to maintain trust and compliance.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate to apply.

What you'll bring:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), PMI-ACP, or equivalent.
• Proven experience in agile delivery roles, especially leading data or analytics projects, including running ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog management, and release planning.
• Skilled in using KPIs like velocity, cycle time, and defect rates to track performance and improve delivery.
• Demonstrable experience coaching and mentoring teams to follow agile practices, optimise workflows, and promote continuous learning and innovation.
• Proficient in Azure DevOps, including managing releases, deployments, change control, pipelines, boards, repositories, permissions, and integrations.
• Understanding of data product lifecycle stages with capacity planning and workload management skills to help teams meet sprint goals realistically.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions in regulated environments.
• Solid knowledge of data governance, quality, traceability, and compliance standards in critical business settings.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary of £60,000 to £70,000 dependent on experience
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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Who we are:

AXA Commercial protects businesses, from multinationals to micro start-ups, giving them the confidence to thrive. We're currently making our biggest ever investment to develop the expertise and skills we need to be the best. We're a vibrant community where everyone is supported to learn, develop, and take ownership of their work.

Salary: £60,000 to £70,000 dependent on experience