Agile Delivery Manager / Project Manager

‍We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Agile Delivery Manager with a proven track record of delivering software solutions to join a new ‘start-up’ division within N Brown. As a member of the Castle Fintech team, you’ll be at the heart of a unique and exciting venture to assemble a new financial services platform. With a background in technology disruption or financial services (preferably retail credit), you’ll leverage your industry knowledge to drive the key sourcing and commercials for the platform. Operating like an independent start-up, within an established organisation, you’ll be completely at home with agile frameworks and will fully embrace iterative and flexible commercial approaches.

‍What type of person are we looking for?

• Driven by boundless curiosity and experimentally minded, always starting with ‘why?’.
• Tenacious and persistent, willing to go above and beyond to deliver great outcomes.
• Focused and decisive, able to ruthlessly prioritise to stay on track.
• Energised by collaboration and a champion of radical candour.
• Work hard whilst maintain our sense of humour, and don't take ourselves too seriously.
• Have a start-up attitude to getting stuff done.

‍About the Role

• We are looking for experienced Agile delivery specialists, with a track record of facilitating change using agile methods to help assure our future success in these areas. Ideal candidates will typically have experience in establishing, embedding, and coaching agile ways of working in teams that operate within fast-paced environments.
• In the role you will work to support one or more squads to help successfully deliver technology products/services within the start-up team. You’ll be a master in enabling the delivery of complex digital roadmaps, breaking down barriers for your team, and getting into the detail to make things happen when needed.

‍What will you do as an Agile Delivery Manager /  Project Manager at N Brown?

• Facilitate daily squad stand-up meetings and other squad ceremonies, planning and refinement meetings and retrospectives.  You’ll also support in ensuring that user stories are translated into actionable tasks for team to work on during the current sprint
• Support the delivery of work involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, driving the communication and visualisation of progress, transparency, and position of delivery
• Create transparency and predictability across your teams using appropriate methods, tools, and metrics, such as sprint plans, burn down charts, velocity charts and so on.
• Handle conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence within strong, talented, and passionate multi-disciplinary teams
• Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working collaboratively with stakeholders to proactively manage any risks, issues or delays.

‍What skills and experience will you have?

• ‍‍Relevant experience of working in an Agile delivery environment
• Have proven success in delivery of a set of technology products/services or transformation initiative within a complex technology portfolio
• Knowledge of Agile, Lean, and Waterfall methods, with proven aptitude to applying in context and demonstrating how this has supported the delivery of outcomes
• Experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong interpersonal skills and a team player who can work collaboratively
• Experience of managing both internal teams and external supplier resourced teams