Technical Senior Agile Delivery Manager Companies House-SEO
Government Digital & Data -
Technical Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Companies House
Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 10th September 2024
Details
Reference number
365204
Salary
£49,384 - £63,574
Base salary is £49,384 - £53,574 with an additional DDaT allowance of £4,350 - £10,000 available. The final salary and allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview.
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
DDaT Senior Lead
Contract type
Permanent
Business area
CH - Digital Services
Type of role
Digital
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
Location
Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ
About the job
Job summary
- Can you add value to an organisation by sparking change?
- Can you focus on making things happen, thus ensuring your teams have everything they need to succeed?
- Do you enjoy helping people develop and discover better ways of working?
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Companies House Agile Delivery Team profession!
We are looking for a Technical Senior Agile Delivery Manager to oversee and deliver our technical transformation including upgrades, maintenance and legacy replacement. You'll have the opportunity to be at the forefront of our technical transformation and help shape our services so that they are modern and resilient to meet the ever-changing demands of the UK's technical landscape.
At Companies House hybrid working is about achieving an effective balance between working in the office and working from other appropriate locations. Our approach to hybrid working provides opportunities for you to be adaptable in the way you work so that you can achieve a healthy balance between your work and home life. We currently expect people to attend the Cardiff base office a minimum of one day a week but the exact degree of choice you have will depend on your role and your day-to-day work activities and should be agreed through discussions with your line manager.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. Wherever we can, we provide opportunities to work part-time, job-share or look for smarter ways of working. We'll support you to meet other commitments and help you find a better work-life balance. We’re keen to create an environment that works for everyone. For this opportunity, we may be able to consider slightly reduced or compressed hours, depending on workload and business needs (minimum of 4 days per week or 30 hours per week).
We offer an excellent benefits package that includes a generous 30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day and enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.
Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work
Job description
You'll be a true leader who serves, steering from the front. Using the agile framework, you'll remove blockers and create the right environment for your multidisciplinary teams to succeed, helping them to become self-managing and creating a culture of learning and transparency.
We're looking for someone who can do the hands-on delivery of products and end-to-end services. You will see them through from initiation to live.
As part of your day-to-day role you will:
- Use your agile and scrum expertise to build a culture of continuous improvement with high performing teams.
- Identify, manage and remove team-level impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with sprint goals. Develop clear and concise escalation points.
- Provide transparency and visibility by tracking and reporting team-level delivery metrics.
- Promote user and data centred design, applying it to the data, analysis and analytics lifecycle.
- Help the organisation around the team interact in a way that maximises the value created by the team.
- Coach and mentor team members on agile values, principles and practices as well as scrum's best practices.
- Use your skills as a persuasive and engaging communicator to engage with stakeholders at all levels.
- Work with experts in engineering, product, analysis, business, user research, user experience design, policy development and many more to make sure your team is fully supported.
- Join a thriving community of practice, where you'll share best practice, insight and support with a bunch of other talented, expert Agile Delivery Managers.
- Research and follow technical trends in the industry. Co-ordinate and lead delivery around potential future technologies.
- Support the agile delivery community to deepen and broaden their technical knowledge and skills.
This opportunity offers a challenging but highly rewarding work environment where the applicant will need a strong work ethic, passion and perseverance to feel comfortable and succeed in the role.
Person specification
We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview. Please refer to the experience and technical skills listed below when writing your personal statement.
Experience and technical skills
- Strong track record of building high performing agile teams using a recognised agile delivery framework.
- The ability to assess the team's current processes and identify areas for improvement.
- Experience of delivering in an agile environment in multiple phases, with a will to transfer your knowledge to data.
- You're a strong advocate for delivering minimum valuable products frequently and regularly.
- Promoting and healthy team culture, managing team dynamics and fostering a continuous improvement environment.
- A strong understanding and experience of agile principles and practices.
- Translating technical teams and facilitating relationships with business stakeholders.
- The ability to listen and communicate in a clear and concise manner at all levels.
- Having a proactive approach to learning and development of yourself and others.
- You value coaching people to learn and grow and have proven experience of doing this.
- Agile and Lean coaching.
- Strong track record of building high performing agile teams using Scrum or other relevant framework.
- Experience of delivering in an agile environment in multiple phases.
- Strong technical knowledge, ideally someone with a background in engineering or computer science or equivalent experience in a technical field.
- Experience of working in software development, engineering, testing or another technical field.
- Experience in delivering and maintaining technically complex products or services.
- Strong experience of communicating complex technical concepts to stakeholders to achieve best delivery outcomes.
- Strategic knowledge of how a service is developed, service architecture, programming languages and service maintenance.
- Ideally you will also have a recognised professional accreditation/qualification such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM)/Professional Scrum Master (PSM).
About the team
Companies House is an award-winning employer, building brilliant services on cutting edge technology. You'll join our digital team at a time of transformation and you will be a part of shaping the future of our department. We use Agile methodologies and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
Our aim is to be the best registry in the world, achieved through brilliant people working on brilliant systems delivering brilliant services. We are currently delivering an organisation wide transformation programme focussing on a complete redesign of our digital services, target operating model and culture. This change will need different skills, capabilities and mindset where adaptable, bold and curious behaviours are the norm and empowerment is encouraged and utilised.
Companies House values its people, their contributions and has created a real sense of community where people seek to create strong connections. Our commitment to learning and development is exceptional, and we believe passionately in the employee experience which is prevalent through the engagement, wellbeing and development strategies which have resulted in Platinum Investors in People and MIND index awards.
We encourage professional development, celebrate success and live our values to effect real change.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Changing and Improving
- Working Together
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Agile and Lean practices
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £49,384, Companies House contributes £14,306 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’re committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that goes beyond the ordinary, ensuring your career journey with us is not only fulfilling, but also rewarding. We pride ourselves on offering a quality work-life balance with our employee wellbeing being central to our working practices.
Head to Our benefits - Working for us - Recruitment (companieshouse.gov.uk) to find out more about the fantastic benefits package we have at Companies House.
