Agile Delivery Manager

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Digital Delivery Manager for a 6 Month (Inside IR35) contract based Hybrid in either the Leeds, Newcastle or Birmingham office.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

. Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation
. Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now
. Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society
. Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

As a Digital Delivery Manager, your main responsibilities will be:
. Lead an agile software delivery team, drive sprint planning/execution, proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies, and quickly build strong working relationships across engineering and delivery partners.
. Operate effectively from day one with ServiceNow or DWP Place
. Maintain ordered backlogs, create delivery plans, track progress, and ensure timely reporting and communication of delivery status to stakeholders.
. Perform discovery activities, quickly understand business needs and technical roadmaps
. Apply an agile mindset to remove impediments & innovate around constraints.
. Work closely with Product Managers, engineering stakeholders, and other DMs across Health and DWP, share rationale and best practice across the wider community.

Essential:
. A solid understanding of major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud networking.
. Must have recent software delivery team working experience

Desirable:
. Previous DWP experience - process and tools eg DWP-Place ServiceNow Change Requests/Incident Management and Jira/Lucid
. Active Securtity Clearance

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".