Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Pay up to £75,748, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for skilled agile leaders to empower our high-performing teams to deliver cutting-edge digital solutions as we transform the future of DWP services used by millions of people.

We have a few exciting opportunities across multiple teams, each playing a crucial role in shaping the future of digital services at DWP:

Health – We are transforming the experience for over 16 million people in the UK living with a health condition or disability. We’re reimagining end-to-end journeys to create simple, responsive services that help people access the support they need to thrive in work and life.

Payments – As the UK’s largest payer, we handle over £276 billion in payments annually – that’s a third of all BACS traffic in the UK. We’re on a mission to modernise our systems using cutting-edge financial technologies to ensure every payment is accurate, timely, and secure.

Chief Data Office – Help us lead DWP’s data strategy and governance. We’re building a data-driven organisation where insight powers decision-making and innovation. Be part of a collaborative, agile team shaping how we manage and use data across one of the UK’s most impactful departments.

You’ll lead using Agile frameworks, remove any barriers and utilise key metrics and insights to help us make good decisions and delivery better outcomes.

Delivering with People.

Our Agile Delivery Managers enable high-performing digital teams to create, build, innovate and deliver. We create psychologically safe spaces where digital experts can be at their best.

It’s a complex landscape and you’ll need your skills as a persuasive and engaging communicator, and your experience of delivering and solving cross-cutting problems to get the job done.

You’ll make sure they have what they need to deliver the best services. You’ll identify blockers, and find the best way round through, and over.

You will get the best out of experts in software engineering, process design, user research and user experience design, as well as policy development.

Developing a World-Class Practice.

Our Agile Delivery practice is thriving with over 200 members. We lead a cross-government community which meets once a month to share ideas and discuss emerging trends.

New joiners and long-time members of our community love how much support is available, and the degree of collaboration in DWP.

We want you to be at your best. You’ll have open access to experts from across our community and across DWP Digital, for coaching, mentoring, certifications, book budgets and lots more.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? How will this be assessed?

The application process for these roles includes both a technical statement and a personal statement. This is your opportunity to showcase clear examples and evidence of how you meet the following:

Personal Statement:

Technical statement:

The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, and technical statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above.

Full details, as well as application guidance are detailed in the Civil Service Job description – Click « Apply » to be redirected here.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in London or Leeds, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model – you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay up to £75,748.

Pension: You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Companies House Digital and Technology Directorate.

We are looking for a Senior Agile Delivery Manager to help scrum teams develop and deliver quality digital services for our millions of users. You’ll have the opportunity to be at the forefront of digital transformation in government and help shape our services to meet the ever-changing demands of the UK’s business landscape.

This is a rewarding role within the Agile Delivery Profession and provides an opportunity to contribute to the success of existing and future services provided by Companies House.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

We can consider both full-time and part-time hours for this opportunity. For part-time, must be a minimum of 30 hours per week over 4 or 5 days.

Please note – Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. Additionally, Security Clearance is an essential requirement (minimum residency criteria is in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years). Please see ‘Things you need to know’ section below for more information.

Job description

A Senior Agile Delivery Manager is accountable for the effective delivery of complex, high risk products and services. The role is similar to a Delivery Manager role, but Senior Delivery Managers have more experience across a range of products and services, throughout the entire product life cycle, and have greater responsibility and accountability as the main point of escalation.

At this role level, you will:

Person specification

We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and at interview.

You’ll adopt a servant leader approach in order to foster professional growth within the team using transparency, inspection and adaption as pillars of agile delivery.

We’re looking for someone who can do the hands-on delivery of products and services, end to end, from initiation to live and have experience of iterating and improving services post live.

You should have:

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £51,854, Companies House contributes £15,022 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. 

We offer an excellent benefits package that includes:

Next Steps

Click ‘Apply Now’ to be taken to our main advert Civil Service Jobs where you can see more details regarding the role, the incredible benefits we have to offer and what it’s like to work in Companies House.

If you have any questions about the role or process, please reach out to .

This role closes on 7 July 2025.

Pay up to £75,748, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

We’re looking for skilled agile delivery managers, who have experience of delivering software in an agile environment, and enabling a multi-disciplinary team through different phases.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK’s biggest government department. 110,000 colleagues deliver services and support to over 25 million people every day, and we make payment worth over £195bn a year.

Our expert DWP Digital community is transforming those products and services using the best tech, tooling, and innovative thinking. We’re making government services simpler and easier to access and cheaper to run and making DWP work better.

Delivering with People.

Our Agile Delivery Managers enable high-performing digital teams to create, build, innovate and deliver. We create psychologically safe spaces where digital experts can be at their best.

You’ll make sure they have what they need to deliver the best services. You’ll identify blockers, and find the best way round through, and over.

Join our Digital Integration Team and work across a huge portfolio of systems, undergoing the replacement of legacy integration systems with new, innovate, in-house services. Our team support almost all projects across DWP, as well as providing integration to numerous other government projects.

You will work alongside experts in software engineering, process design, user research and user experience design, as well as policy development.

Developing a World-Class Practice.

Our Agile Delivery practice is thriving with over 200 members. We lead a cross-government community which meets once a month to share ideas and discuss emerging trends.

New joiners and long-time members of our community love how much support is available, and the degree of collaboration in DWP.

We want you to be at your best. You’ll have open access to experts from across our community and across DWP Digital, for coaching, mentoring, certifications, book budgets and lots more.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model – you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £75,748.

Pension: You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £19,000 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.