Role: Senior Agile Delivery Manager REF 100374
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Newcastle, Leeds or Birmingham (60% office attendance)
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £600 per day
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Agile Delivery Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR AGILE DELIVERY MANAGER
Agile Delivery (Hands-on)
• Act as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for a software engineering team on a day-to-day basis.
• Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
• Actively remove delivery blockers and manage scope, flow and prioritisation.
• Maintain delivery momentum across a sustained period of active build work.
• Software Delivery & Technical Engagement
• Work directly with software developers, testers and DevOps engineers.
• Understand and manage delivery within modern software engineering lifecycles.
• Engage confidently with technical discussions and trade-offs.
• Support delivery across complex technical concerns (e.g. resilience, security, recoverability).
Senior Stakeholder Influence
• Influence and challenge senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide clear, evidence-based delivery reporting.
• Build trust through consistent delivery performance and transparency.
• Planning, Coordination & Reporting
• Maintain and refine prioritised backlogs with Product Managers and technical leads.
• Proactively manage risks, issues and cross-team dependencies.
• Use Jira effectively for planning, tracking and reporting at team and initiative level.
• Complete delivery-related governance and change activity (e.g. ServiceNow).
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR AGILE DELIVERY MANAGER
• Recent, hands-on agile delivery experience with software development teams
• Operating as a Scrum Master / Delivery Manager in active software build
• Delivery within modern engineering environments, including:
o Version control (e.g. Git)
o CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud-native or platform-based services
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement and influence
• Practical experience managing delivery risks, dependencies and complex backlogs
• High proficiency in Jira (team and programme level)
• SFIA Level 6 capability demonstrated through applied experience
• The successful candidate will have worked recently and directly with engineering teams using technologies and practices such as:
o Cloud platforms (e.g. Azure and/or AWS) as part of software delivery, not migration only
o Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
o CI/CD tooling and modern DevOps practices
o Automated testing and quality practices
o Secure, resilient digital services
If you are a Senior Agile Delivery Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
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