Delivery Manager (Agile Software Engineering)

The Delivery Manager is responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality software products on time, within scope, and in alignment with business goals. This role focuses on facilitating agile practices within the team, coordinating with stakeholders, managing risks, optimizing workflows, and overseeing supplier relationships to ensure that external resources and third-party services align with project needs and timelines. The Delivery Manager acts as a bridge between the development team, product owners, and other stakeholders, including suppliers, to ensure smooth communication and efficient delivery processes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Agile Expertise: Solid experience with agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban), with the ability to apply them effectively in a software development context.
• Delivery Experience: Proven track record of successfully managing and delivering software products in an agile environment.
• Supplier Management: Strong experience in managing external suppliers and third-party vendors, including service delivery, and performance monitoring.
• Communication Skills: Strong ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including external suppliers. Comfortable presenting to senior leadership and facilitating cross-team collaboration.
• Problem-Solving: Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to remove obstacles and help the team succeed.
• Leadership and Coaching: Experience leading agile teams and coaching individuals to reach their full potential.
• Project Management: Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) and experience tracking and reporting on progress.
• Risk Management: Ability to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks that could affect delivery timelines or product quality.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Commitment to continuous improvement, both personally and for the team, using retrospectives, feedback loops, and metrics to drive improvements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications: Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or other agile certifications.
• Technical qualifications: Any that demonstrate understanding of the software development lifecycle and familiarity with relevant technical concepts (e.g., DevOps, CI/CD, microservices).

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering Day
Hybrid Working
Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility Statement

The fast moving nature of the business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to utilise our people in the best possible way at all times and helps our colleagues to make the best contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's overall greenest energy company- it’s more than just green energy – the breadth and depth of our work on green issues is unmatched. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too – we have built windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. 

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.