Join us as an Agile Delivery Manager with the Bank of England

(London, Full-time, Permanent)

 

 

ABOUT CAPITA

At Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, Education, Transport, Health, Life and Pensions, Insurance, Banking, and other private sector organisations. We support with expertise applied by the talent across our business in combination with technology, insight and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than ever – and we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.

 

 

BANK OF ENGLAND – PROJECT & PROGRAMMES DIVISION

The Projects and Programmes Division is responsible for all aspects of Bank of England’s programme and project delivery, in line with the Bank’s strategic priorities. This is achieved through effective central oversight of the Bank’s change portfolio, supported by professional management of significant business change initiatives to ensure successful delivery. The portfolio covers all types of projects from technical IT infrastructure projects, through the development and introduction of new business systems (including financial, risk, banking, and data systems), to projects focused on business change and/or policy development

 

                

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

Performs the Scrum Master role for the technical delivery team:
Facilitates daily stand-ups Facilitates sprint planning and retrospective ceremonies Attend and facilitate sprint Show and Tells Helps resolve or escalate blockers from teams

Business Change/Transformation

Delivery methodology established for effective direction and delivery Agile/Waterfall hybrid within SDLC Facilitates and supports all agile ceremonies, artefacts & processes Work with Product Manager to provide product roadmap and prioritization Work with Business Analysts, Developers, and testers to ensure that requirements are provided to agreed standards (Ready for Development) Functional & Non-Functional Requirements

Drive Continuous Improvement / Continuous Delivery

Track and report progress in line with teams’ agreed metrics

Assurance & Gate Reviews Technical delivery managed efficiently and effectively to time, cost and quality.

Product vision fully understood by the agile team and reflected in/during sprint planning sessions RAID planning & capturing Requirements Management

Stakeholder Management – the Agile Delivery Manager will manage communication channelled from the team through to the Project Manager and vice versa. Solution delivery

End-to-end Technical delivery Support the Product Owner to meet the project vision Active communication across individual technology domains Dependencies defined, tracked and interlocked Acceptance criteria understood and agreed. Decommissioning plan agreed/ decommission tasks completed (where applicable). Technology colleague training support plans in place. Operational requirements delivered Warranty completed successfully post go-live, and solution transitioned to the BAU technology teams (where applicable).

Leadership including:

Guidance and support provided to the immediate agile team and wider project members as required Coaching and mentoring of agile team to build and mature agile delivery capability.

 

 

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

Experience within long-term Change/Transformation projects /programmes Demonstrable experience delivering high-level projects consistently within schedule Strong adherence to Project Governance A commitment to Continuous improvement / Continuous Delivery Excellent Stakeholder Management skills, both technical and non-technical Confident, assured, and willing to drive delivery Knowledge of various project delivery methodologies

 

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

Programme Management experience Agile Scrum Master Certification PRINCE2 Projects within the Financial Sector Security Clearance