Summary: The Agile Delivery Manager will lead the delivery of a new Limit Management solution on a cloud-native platform in Microsoft Azure, focusing on Treasury and Risk functions. This hands-on role requires driving agile initiatives, managing teams, and ensuring successful outcomes through effective communication and governance. The position emphasizes delivering real results while maintaining a clear roadmap and stakeholder alignment. The contract is for 6 months and is classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Owning delivery across multiple agile initiatives
- Working closely with Product Owners to build a clear, prioritised, and value-driven roadmap
- Running day-to-day agile delivery (Scrum / Kanban) and maintaining high momentum
- Ensuring teams are appropriately resourced and set up for success
- Keeping delivery governance tight, including stage gates, reporting, budgets, and controls
- Managing risks, issues, dependencies, and ensuring nothing gets ignored
- Producing clear progress updates and steering-level reporting
- Making delivery metrics visible and using them to drive improvement
- Managing stakeholders and keeping sponsors aligned and informed
- Supporting business cases and delivery documentation as required
- Helping teams mature their agile ways of working and contributing to the wider delivery community
Key Skills:
- Strong experience delivering multi-team agile delivery
- A track record of delivering real outcomes within time/cost/governance constraints
- Delivery experience across agile programmes worth £2m+
- Confident communication with both technical teams and senior stakeholders
- Strong servant leadership skills
- Experience working with dispersed teams and third parties
- Good understanding of procurement and commercial agreements
- Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery, including scoping, planning, tracking, budget, and closure
- Bonus: Greenfield Java delivery on cloud (Azure ideally)
Salary (Rate): £585 daily
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Agile Delivery Manager (Azure | Treasury & Risk) – 6 Month Contract OUTSIDE IR35 £550 - £585 per day
Let’s keep it simple. We need a proper Agile Delivery Manager — someone who can lead delivery, get teams moving, and ship real outcomes, not just talk about Agile. You’ll be driving the first product increments of a new Limit Management solution being built on a cloud-native platform in Microsoft Azure, supporting Treasury and Risk functions. This is a hands-on delivery role. You’ll be in the detail when needed, leading from the front, clearing blockers, and keeping delivery honest.
What you’ll be doing
- Owning delivery across multiple agile initiatives
- Working closely with Product Owners to build a roadmap that’s clear, prioritised, and value-driven
- Running day-to-day agile delivery (Scrum / Kanban) and keeping momentum high
- Making sure teams are appropriately resourced and set up for success
- Keeping delivery governance tight — including stage gates, reporting, budgets, and controls
- Managing risks, issues, dependencies and making sure nothing gets ignored
- Producing clear progress updates and steering-level reporting (no fluff, just facts)
- Making delivery metrics visible and using them to drive improvement
- Managing stakeholders and keeping sponsors aligned and informed
- Supporting business cases and delivery documentation where required
- Helping teams mature their agile ways of working and contributing to the wider delivery community
What we’re looking for
- Strong experience delivering multi-team agile delivery
- A track record of delivering real outcomes within time / cost / governance constraints
- Delivery experience across agile programmes worth £2m+
- Confident communicating with both technical teams and senior stakeholders
- Strong servant leadership — you can lead without ego
- Experience working with dispersed teams and third parties
- Good understanding of procurement and commercial agreements (including Statements of Work)
- Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery — scoping, planning, tracking, budget, and closure
- Bonus: Greenfield Java delivery on cloud (Azure ideally)
