Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Job Description

An agile delivery manager (ADM) in UNIDAYS is a role that ensures consistent and successful delivery of high quality software according to the goals and key objectives of the team, while learning and iterating when things don’t quite go as planned!

The role sits within the Engineering department (P&E) and reports to the Head of Agile Delivery.

In order to be successful in the role, you will need to be able to work with different stakeholders across the organisation to unblock issues, organise and drive work within the team. This will make use of your strong organisational and motivational skills as well as clear and decisive decision making.

Job Requirements

In order to be your best self in this role, you will have:

• A coaching mentality
• Previous experience as an agile delivery manager, scrum master or delivery manager
• Experience of working in a high paced environment with frequent change
• In-depth knowledge of lean and agile processes and principles, preferably across multiple methodologies
• Energy, positivity and be an excellent communicator. You’re going to need to translate technical jargon into understandable language for the business

Strong organisation and time management skills

Previous experience using issue tracking tools such as JIRA

Proven track record in delivering scalable and robust applications to business needs

An understanding of how to deliver value in multiple steps

Understanding of software development concepts

Experience of managing conflicting and demanding stakeholders

Job Responsibilities

Process and software delivery

• Own the use of agile frameworks within the team, adapting methodologies to best suit the needs of the individual team and the business
• Take responsibility for ensuring all agile ceremonies take place and leading them where appropriate (standup, refinement, planning, retrospectives etc)
• Strong facilitation skills to be able to facilitate agile ceremonies and workshops
• Identify inefficiencies in the software delivery process and suggest and agree improvements with the team
• Use various techniques such a story mapping to help teams breakdown down work, ensuing an interactive and incremental approach to delivery
• Able to, track and mitigate risks and manage any cross team dependencies

Resolve and remove blockers as they arise to allow the team to focus on delivery

Identify, assess and prioritise bugs and technical debt

Align your team's delivery plans with wider plans across P&E and UNiDAYS

Champion lean and agile best practice, supporting teams as we continually look to improve our delivery

Establish and maintain strong relationships across all teams and stakeholders to ensure a coherent approach to delivery across the business

Communication and Interaction

• Work closely with the product manager to represent the business within the team, providing vision and context
• Represent the needs of the team within the broader Product & Engineering team, providing insight and conflict resolution where needed
• Reporting to Product & Engineering leadership on commitments, team performance and team health as defined by the Head of Delivery
• Communicating the status of work to stakeholders and Product & Engineering leadership
• Work with the other ADMs to share good practice and increase the effectiveness of agile within UNiDAYS
  
  

Prioritisation management

• Ongoing prioritisation and refinement of backlogs using business value as a prioritisation tool

Provide backlog management, iteration planning and define iteration commitments

Job Benefits

This is your opportunity to Join the world’s largest student verification network and help shape the future of how brands connect with the next generation. We engage a community of 23M+ verified students and graduates across 115 markets, making us a truly global platform. Our brand is a powerhouse in the UK, and we’re rapidly accelerating our presence worldwide—especially in the US, Germany, India, France, Canada, and Australia.

Benefits

We partner with 850+ of the world’s biggest brands, bringing their products and services to the hearts and minds of tomorrow’s professionals—driving engagement, building affinity, and delivering real results.We offer a fast-paced, fun, and social working environment where you can truly make an impact. We believe work should enhance and complement your life, which is why we provide a flexible hybrid working model. While there are expectations to attend the London campus periodically, you and your manager will determine the most appropriate balance together, ensuring both your needs and the needs of the business are met.We work hard at UNiDAYS, and we believe in fair compensation for that hard work. That’s why we’re proud to offer all employees full access to our comprehensive benefits package.Our perks include:

• 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus flexible bank holidays