Senior Delivery Manager

Eviden is an Atos Group business with an annual revenue of circa € 5 billion and a global leader in data-driven, trusted and sustainable digital transformation. As a next generation digital business with worldwide leading positions in digital, cloud, data, advanced computing and security, it brings deep expertise for all industries in more than 47 countries. By uniting unique high-end technologies across the full digital continuum with 55,000 world-class talents, Eviden expands the possibilities of data and technology, now and for generations to come.

About the practice:

Within the AMS practice, Eviden provides on-going application support and development for a wide range of systems including bespoke applications and third-party COTS packages. This covers areas such as Incident Management, Problem Management, Service Request delivery, Development changes and enhancements. The latter typically require the design and documentation of a solution and proposal before the development work commences.

We have an Agile mindset and approach to our service, where we adapt to change, learn through failure, and encourage feedback to bring in consistent improvement.

We employ DevOps to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of high software quality. This compliments our Agile mindset and approach to software development.

Candidates must have BPSS clearance and be eligible for SC level.

Senior Delivery Manager responsibilities: 

• Adopt a customer focus to understanding what the customer and user needs.
• Guide and coach the scrum team on agile practices and principles to deliver quality products.
• Facilitating the agile delivery, ensuring scope and objectives are understood by the scrum team.
• Supporting the Product Owner (PO) to develop a Product Roadmap and maintain a prioritised Product Backlog.
• Coordinates the agile ceremonies including daily scrum, sprint planning, review, and retrospectives.
• Manages the agreed sprint backlog, monitoring the burndown and maintaining velocity. 
• Leading the cross functional scrum team to influence and drive decisions, supporting the PO managing stakeholder expectations.
• Continuously improve the high performing team through recognition of strengths and development opportunity.
• Ensures any blocker / impediments to the scrum teams progress is surfaced and resolved as soon as possible. 
• Attends the scrum of scrums and supports the senior scrum master. Works with Agile coaches and other Scrum Masters to grow within the role.
• Collaborates with programme leadership team communicating progress in the scrum of scrums as well as participating in Programme increment Planning. 

Required Skills & Experience:

• Senior Delivery Manager with strong Agile values.
• Exceptional in communication, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
• Proficient in Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum) and traditional project management.
• Skilled in user story refinement, Scrum techniques, and team collaboration.
• Strong problem-solving and planning abilities with product and delivery teams.
• Experienced in training, mentoring, and meeting facilitation across organizational levels.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel) and documentation creation.
• Effective presenter and facilitator with proven influence on customers and users.
• Fully UK mobile: willing to work on projects across the UK.
• Experienced in public sector projects, especially with GDS for SFIA.
• Competent with collaboration tools (e.g., Azure ADO, Jira, Confluence).
• Knowledgeable in mainstream technology solutions and modern architectural principles, including SOA.

 Certifications and Technical skills:

• Must to have: Level 1 Scrum Master Certification: (e.g., CSM, PSM I).
• Nice to have: Level 2 Scrum Master Certification: (e.g., CSP, PSM II).
• Bachelor’s Degreе preferably in Software Development
• Knowledge of other Agile approaches: DevOps, DevSecOps, XP, Kanban, DAD, SAFe, FDD, etc.
• Experience with Agile techniques: INVEST, 3 Amigos, BDD, TDD, Pairing, Automated Testing, and Continuous Integration.

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As a Disability Confident employer, we aim to ensure that people with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments and changes as needed to the application and assessment process to remove or reduce any disadvantage associated with a person's disability.

If you have any questions, please contact our recruiter Inka Tsoneva | LinkedIn