What you'll be doing

 You are "Delivery obsessed" constantly looking for new ways to innovate and deliver maximum value. 

• Nurture and inspire the team to take responsibility for their delivery process and the outcomes they deliver. 
• You thread agile values and principles throughout your thinking, processes, and actions.   
•  You empower and encourage the team to focus on delivering value.   
•  Foster an open and honest team culture that welcomes constructive feedback, experimentation and is rooted in psychological safety. ͏You will use delivery data to understand how the team are performing, identify improvements in ways of working, eliminate waste and reduce cycle time. 
• You'll use delivery data to create delivery specific feedback loops across initiatives to drive more consistent and predictable delivery.
•  You'll use a safe team culture to build effective feedback loops across both team deliverables as well as owning the delivery outcomes  
• You'll encourage experimentation and create an environment where innovation can happen. 
•  You'll hold the team to account on their retro commitments. 
• Confident managing initiatives from Idea, through Discovery to Inception - working from uncertainty to bring focus, using Delivery expertise to create increasing clarity in terms of Size and Complexity. 
• Able to coach teams to breakdown, slice and structure work into the smallest increments, advising and coaching to create the most appropriate increments of value.   

What experience we're looking for Key Measures of Success

• Team utilization - Resource allocation and cost control (internal and delivery partner)
• Plan and business case adherence - Delivery to Plan and Investment Case 
• Velocity - Delivery throughput, deployment frequency, cycle time
• Software Quality - Change failure rate, code review cycles and intervention Mean time to repair (MTTR), Customer satisfaction and stakeholder feedback inclusion. 
• People Health - Work distribution and engagement scores.

͏Key Skills and Experience: 

• You will be experienced and have a successful track record of delivering complex technology projects and programmes through multi-disciplinary teams using agile, lean software and design-thinking development methodologies
• Must have the ability to deliver software solutions to time and quality and have the track record of doing so using multiple delivery partners.
• You thrive on responsibility and completing tasks in a timely manner with good, clear communication. 
• You are equally comfortable working independently, and in a team to deliver excellence, working across boundaries within the Digital Foundry.
• Your ability to set priorities and focus teams on what is most important whilst maintaining resilience under pressure.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to understand and relay strategic objectives and plans and drive alignment.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to explain complex technical challenges in a simple and effective manner.