AMS PSR

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Technical Agile Delivery Manager for a 12 Month (Inside IR35) hybrid contract based up to 3 days per week in Birmingham, Leeds or Newcastle.

Core Purpose

The Senior Agile Delivery Manager is a technical delivery leader responsible for planning, coordinating and driving strategic engineering initiatives across multiple feature and platform teams. They will shape and deliver shared capabilities, technical enablers and services that support engineering teams across DWP Digital.

The role requires strong leadership of agile ceremonies, active dependency and risk management, and clear, concise delivery reporting. Operating within modern software engineering environments, the ADM works closely with Product, DevOps, Architects and other Delivery Managers. Recent, hands-on experience leading software development teams at SFIA level 6 is essential.

Experience with platform engineering or data engineering teams would be beneficial.

Key Responsibilities

Agile Delivery & Leadership

• Lead an agile software delivery team, driving sprint planning, execution and continuous improvement.
• Manage risks, issues and cross team dependencies proactively.
• Build strong relationships with engineering, product and delivery partners.

Technical & Platform Competence

• Confident operating in environments using Azure, AWS, Terraform, Git, CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices.
• Strong Jira skills at team and programme level for planning, tracking and reporting.
• Comfortable working with testing, data flows and technical roadmaps.

Planning, Coordination & Execution

• Maintain prioritised backlogs with Product Managers.
• Develop delivery plans, track progress, and provide clear reporting to stakeholders.
• Complete follow up admin tasks including change requests via ServiceNow.

Problem Framing & Continuous Improvement

• Undertake discovery and quickly understand business outcomes and technical context.
• Use an agile mindset to remove blockers and innovate around constraints.

Collaboration & Community Leadership

• Work closely with Product, Architecture, Engineering and delivery peers across Health and DWP.
• Contribute to community best practice and knowledge sharing across teams.

Essential Skills & Experience (Core Technical Requirements)

• Recent, applied agile delivery management experience in a software engineering environment.
• Experienced Scrum Master able to run agile ceremonies effectively.
• Strong facilitation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent risk, issue and dependency management capability.
• Skilled in Jira; competent with tools such as Miro/Lucid, Confluence, Slack and ServiceNow.
• Ability to understand and support technical roadmaps, OKRs and multi team delivery.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience with ServiceNow for change management.
• Previous experience working with DWP processes and practices.
• Experience working with platform engineering or data engineering teams.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP 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. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".