AMS PSR

Agile Delivery Manager
Companies House

Reference number
436320

Salary
£42,923 - £58,044

Base salary is £42,923 - £47,044 with an additional DDaT allowance of £4,350 - £11,000 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade
Senior Executive Officer
DDaT Lead

Contract type
Permanent

Business area
CH - Digital Services - Digital & Data Services

Type of role
Digital
Information Technology
Other

Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available
4

Location
Remote working (anywhere in the UK)

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Companies House Digital and Technology Directorate where you will contribute to the success of existing and future services provided by Companies House.   

As an Agile Delivery Manager, you will be at the forefront of digital transformation in government and help shape our services to meet the ever-changing demands of the UK’s business landscape.   

Watch this video to find out more about working in Digital at Companies House 

We are looking for talented Agile Delivery Managers with a software delivery and digital/data services background to help our Agile Scrum teams develop and deliver quality services for our millions of users.   

There are multiple vacancies across several areas: 

• A newly formed Service team focusing on iterating and improving live services.  
• A data team currently focused on moving data across from existing sources to a Cloud Data Platform and building analytical data products for use across Companies House.
• Agile Delivery teams working on fast paced delivery of projects aligned to portfolio, transformation or legislative changes. 

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as 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 

Please note: 

• Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. 
• Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign.  You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC. 
• Remote contracts will only be offered to successful candidates who are not within a commutable distance to our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. If you are located in a reasonable distance to one our offices, you will receive a hybrid contract aligned to one of our offices.  

Please see 'Things you need to know' and 'Where will you be working' sections below for more information. 

Job description

The Service and Data teams are new to Agile, Scrum, and Lean ways of working. They will require an Agile Delivery Manager with proficient coaching and mentoring skills that can help them grow into self-organising teams and deliver customer value to a high standard. 

The delivery teams are well established who are experienced in working with agile methodologies. These teams require an Agile Delivery manager who will help to maintain the high standard of delivery alongside facilitation of continuous improvement within the team. 

This rewarding leadership role is ideal for someone who is passionate about working with people and is motivated by successful delivery in a complex environment.  We are looking for someone who cares about and can exemplify Civil Service values, in a diverse, ethical, and positive working culture.   

As the Agile Delivery Manager, you will be accountable for the successful delivery of products and services within your team.    

You will lead one of our Agile Scrum teams, acting as a true leader to facilitate collaboration, decision-making, effective planning of work, clarity on vision, scope, goals and roadmap, conflicting priorities and conflict resolution.   

You would be instrumental in taking the Product vision and making it happen. Showing exceptional leadership and communication skills, you will be expected to understand and improve the teams way of working to meet delivery expectations and timelines. 

An Agile Delivery Manager is accountable for the performance of the team.   

At this role level, you will:   

• Be an active member of our community of practice, where you will share best practice, insight and support with your peers.  
• Lead from the front using your Agile expertise and the scrum framework and Lean practices. 
• Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborative, and working productively. 
• Proactively address team dynamics and resolve issues as they arise, removing impediments/blockers to ensure a smooth workflow. 
• Challenge and encourage the team to identify assumptions, dependencies and risks and proactively plan to address these throughout delivery. 
• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services. 
• Encourage, support, and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team. 
• Understand the agile project phases and know how to support the team through this lifecycle (discovery, alpha, beta, live, retirement). 
• Coach and mentor team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques 
• Form relationships with your peers to enable efficient cross-team collaboration and dependency management.   

Further information on a Delivery Manager and skills expected can be found on the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.   

Person specification

We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview.   

You will be a true leader who steers from the front. You will be someone who can 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 will look for the required skills as detailed in the Government Digital and Data Delivery Manager capability, at Delivery Manager level, and in particular:   

• Scrum certified to a minimum of Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Professional Scrum with Kanban Certification (PSK-I). We cannot accept part-qualifications or equivalent certifications. 
• Agile and Lean Practices. 
• Strong track record of building high performing agile software delivery teams using Scrum (additional experience of Kanban, XP, or Lean is desirable). 
• Extensive understanding of product, services, and software development lifecycle, and proven experience of end-to-end delivery from initiation to live, as well as experience of iterating and improving services post live. 
• Communicating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, using delivery plans, roadmaps and forecasting techniques.
• Maintain visibility of your team’s performance using metrics.
• Proven experience of coaching and mentoring. 

Our team  

Our Agile Delivery Profession is part of the Digital and Technology (DAT) directorate. We are a team of 16 permanent and 10 third party Agile Delivery Managers working hand in hand to deliver Companies House digital strategy. We have 6 experienced Senior Agile Delivery Managers who will support you closely in your work, and one of them will be your direct line manager.    

Qualifications

Scrum certified to a minimum of Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Professional Scrum with Kanban Certification (PSK-I). We cannot accept part-qualifications or equivalent certifications.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Agile and Lean practices
• Planning - maintaining delivery momentum

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £42,923, Companies House contributes £12,434 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.  

We Celebrate Diversity

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity, being committed to ensuring we’re representative of the citizens we serve and creating an inclusive environment. Everyone in Companies House brings something different, and so will you. To fulfil our commitment to recruiting and attracting diverse talent we welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We also welcome applications from Welsh speakers. 

We are proud to be a disability confident leader.  Our recruitment process is fully inclusive and we can make adjustments as needed through our process. These could include having an interview buddy, extra time at interviews/assessments and receiving interview questions in advance, to name a few. 

If you require any reasonable adjustments at application stage, or if you'd like to discuss any person-centred adjustments, please contact us by emailing recruitmentCH@companieshouse.gov.uk.

Read our 'Applying under the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS)' guide to find out how to successfully complete an application under the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS).

Where will you be working? 

We are currently using a hybrid approach to the way we work which 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. The degree of choice you have will depend on your role and your day-to-day work activities. Your manager will agree regular patterns of attendance with you, however you may be required to make yourself available to attend the office more frequently when required to meet business needs. Remote contracts will only be offered to successful candidates who are not a commutable distance to our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. If you are located at a reasonable distance to one our offices, you will receive a hybrid contract aligned to one of our offices.

Things you need to know:

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Please note, we are working with AMS for this recruitment process.

To apply for this role, please click on the  at the top of this page to access the AMS portal where you will be asked to submit your CV.

If you have any questions regarding the campaign then please contact Alan Yates-Brown (alan.yates@weareams.com).

All applications will be collected by AMS (our recruitment partners), which will then be sent to Companies House for internal sift.

In your application form we’d like you to:

1. Tell us about your employment history, including any key responsibilities and achievements. 
2. Write a personal statement of 1000 words where you demonstrate how you meet the skills required for this role, providing examples to evidence your level of skill. In your personal statement we are looking for evidence of:

• Essential qualification: Scrum certified to a minimum of Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Professional Scrum with Kanban Certification (PSK-I). We cannot accept part-qualifications or equivalent certifications.   Please confirm you have this.    
• Agile and Lean Practices. 
• Strong track record of building high performing agile software delivery teams using Scrum (additional experience of Kanban, XP, or Lean is desirable).  
• Extensive understanding of product, services and software development lifecycle, and proven experience of end-to-end delivery from initiation to live, as well as experience of iterating and improving services post live.  
• Communicating between technical and non-technical stakeholders, using delivery plans, roadmaps and forecasting techniques. 
• Maintain visibility of your team’s performance using metrics. 
• Proven experience of coaching and mentoring. 

What will the process look like?

Sift

• Once the advert has closed we will sift applications - this involves reading through them all, please bear with us as this can take some time. 
• We may raise the score required if we receive a high number of applications.
• At sift we may choose to take through the highest performing candidates to the next stage. If, after the final stage is completed and roles are unfilled, we will proceed to invite lower scoring candidates to interview. 
• At sift candidates will be assessed against the bullet points listed above.  

Interview 

• Successful candidates from the sift stage will be invited to attend an interview, which will conducted using Microsoft Teams.
• We use a blended interview technique, allowing us to find out more about you.
• We use the Success Profile framework and at interview we will use Success Profiles assessing the Behaviours and Technical Skills listed in the advert.
• As part of your interview, there will be a work-based activity.  The work-based activity (which will be a discussion topic) will be at the beginning of your interview and will be assessing the technical skills listed in the advert (Agile and Lean practices, and Planning - maintaining delivery momentum).   
• The panel will share the discussion topic details at the beginning of the call - they're keen to discuss your approach and understand how you tackle a work-based scenario. 15 minutes of the interview will be dedicated to this section. You are not required to prepare or present your work; this is an opportunity to demonstrate your approach.  
• The next part of the interview will be Behaviour questions.    
• The lead criteria to distinguish between tied candidates will be: Technical Skills (Agile and Lean practices, and Planning - maintaining delivery momentum).
• A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles.

Key dates (dates are indicative only and could be subject to change)

• Closing date - 19 November 2025 (at 23:55)
• Sifting - 19 - 25 November 2025
• Interviews - from 26 November 2025 onwards

We’re committed to being diverse and inclusive, so please make your application anonymous by removing all identifying personal information (such as names and dates) from your employment history and personal statement.

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of recruitment based on fair and open competition with decisions made on the basis of merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.  Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Sponsorship

Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Companies House holds a Visa sponsorship licence, but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify. Should you apply for this role and require sponsorship, your application may be rejected, and any provisional offers of employment withdrawn.  

Nationality statement

Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. If you're applying for a role requiring security clearance, please be aware that foreign or dual nationality is not an automatic bar. However certain posts may have restrictions which could affect those who do not have sole British nationality or who have personal connections with certain countries outside the UK. 

As part of our recruitment process, it is essential for all candidates to independently verify their eligibility to work in the UK before applying.  This includes a thorough check of your right to work to ensure compliance with UK employment laws, being mindful of the recent changes to going rates detailed on GOV.UK.  

Please ensure you have the necessary documentation and permissions in place. Our team is dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. However, it is the candidate's responsibility to ensure they meet the UK's legal requirements to work.  

Security Clearance

Successful candidates must pass a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check before they can be appointed. 

BPSS is an entry level security check. It uses the Police National Computer (PNC) to make sure a candidate has no convictions. The check returns evidence of any current criminal record and un-spent convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. 

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements for Security Check (SC) before they can be appointed.  

The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.    

Further information on National Security Vetting  
 
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
 
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name :Alan Yates-Brown
• Email :alan.yates@weareams.com

Recruitment team

• Email :recruitmentch@companieshouse.gov.uk

Further information

We welcome applications in Welsh / Rydym yn croesawi ceisiadau yn y Gymraeg. Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of appointment on the basis of merit by fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact infopoint@companieshouse.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission . 
 
info@csc.gov.uk
 
Civil Service Commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road SW1A 2HQ