Agile Delivery Manager - Senior

You'll collaborate with the product manager and team to lead the delivery of services and products that deliver our clients' strategic outcomes. You'll facilitate people’s work in roles spanning design, development, and research, playing a key leadership role in multidisciplinary agile teams. You'll lead the team in agreeing delivery milestones to deliver on behalf of our clients. You'll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy in often complex client stakeholder groups and governance structures.

Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel. Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it. Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

You're comfortable working on complex or multiple projects. You define and deliver the work without much direction. In your CV and the interview, please show how you have:

• Distributed work and set milestones for others to achieve
• Simplified complex problems into smaller, manageable deliverables for your team
• Created a team charter, agreed ways of working and collaboratively iterated throughout the project
• Organised your team and its ceremonies, encouraged team engagement and self‑organisation
• Connected team and stakeholder perspectives when making decisions
• Influenced your team to achieve greater outcomes and remain focused on the project's vision
• Selected communication tools appropriate for stakeholder and team dynamics
• Created and facilitated workshops
• Fostered transparency and alignment through building trust

• Are proactive, and can work autonomously
• Challenge appropriately and resolve conflict
• Help others to successfully work through challenges
• Support and develop teams, and build impactful relationships
• Contribute to communities and client teams beyond project work

• The Service Standard (UK
• Government) / GDS
• Use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• Calculating metrics and using outcomes to effectively manage the team
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management

There are some other desirable areas of experience for this role. If you don't have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas.

Are you looking to turn big ideas into big results? Do you want to be a part of a supportive Agile community to help you grow in your career?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We're a growing tech consultancy that creates user‑centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose‑driven businesses. As an Agile Delivery Manager, you'll tackle challenges and guide teams, adding structure, assurance and energy to complex projects that make a difference to millions of people in the UK.