Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Job Description

The VacancyOVERALL SUMMARYA Senior Delivery specialist of products and project solutions using Agile principles and methodologies by working alongside stakeholders to outline goals and continuously deliver highest value items through effective prioritisation. RESPONSIBILITIESMethods and tools (SFIA Level 5)

• Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
• Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools.
• Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards.
• Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.

Specialist advice (SFIA Level 4)

• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism to the organisations planning and operations.
• Actively maintains knowledge in one or more identifiable specialisms.
• Recognises and identifies the boundaries of their own specialist knowledge.
• Where appropriate, collaborates with other specialists to ensure advice given is appropriate to the organisations needs.

Organisational facilitation (SFIA Level 5)

• Facilitates workgroups to deliver defined goals and outcomes.
• Provides support, guidance and suggestions to workgroups and teams to learn collaborative problem solving and improve their team performance. Creates shared responsibilities and sustainable agreements with the team.
• Implements and improves agreed team principles, practices, processes & ceremonies.
• Recognises and works with the strengths and constraints of team dynamics.

Requirements definition and management (SFIA Level 4)

• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Contributes to selecting the requirements approach.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
• Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.

Demand management (SFIA Level 5)

• Implements demand management analysis and planning activities.
• Provides advice to help stakeholders adopt and adhere to the agreed demand management approach. Manages the process of integrating demand management with complementary strategic, operational and change management processes.
• Maintains a register of business requests and routes requests to the right place. Reports on the status of each request.
• Reviews new business proposals and provides advice on demand issues. Works with business representatives to agree and implement short-term and medium-term modifications to demand.

Systems development management (SFIA Level 6)

• Sets policy and drives adherence to standards for systems development.
• Leads activities to make security and privacy integral to systems development.
• Identifies and manages the resources necessary for all stages of systems development projects.
• Ensures that technical, financial and quality targets are met.

Conduct, Risk and Compliance

• Ensure that all Governance and Compliance requirements are adhered to and all reporting and reviewing activities required by the Regulatory Bodies are carried out to the standards required.

WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:

• Builds strong long-lasting relationships with both internal and external customers.
• Role models a genuine drive for improvement and encourages others to drive for excellence.
• Remains focused and calm under pressure.
• Identifies, manages and monitors key risks, making sure that appropriate checks and balances are used .
• Plans and organises team/s to ensure delivery is achieved, monitors and refreshes resource and delivery plans when required.
• Collaborates openly with others, bringing transparency and a straightforward approach.
• Effectively applies knowledge to deliver solutions that fit the purpose and are feasible .

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application formin an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at or request a call back. ABOUT USFor roles offering hybrid working: At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working. Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management services and securities trading. At Close Brothers we provide financial support and advice to small businesses and individuals in the UK. Our purposeis to help the people and businesses of Britain thrive over the long term. To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://careers To find out more about life at Close Brothers:https://life-close-brothers#374017299-899295541 To find out more about our benefits:https://employee-benefits To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment:https://inclusion