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Senior Delivery Manager (Government) Position Description If you're a Delivery Manager who thrives in a collaborative environment and excels at facilitating Agile practices, we want to hear from you. Become part of our growing team working with a range of UK government clients on projects that deliver meaningful public services. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list 2024 and has been named one of the World's Best Employers by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a member, not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. This role will require hybrid working, with 2 days per week on-site in Newcastle. All applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) to Security Check (SC) level as a minimum. Your future duties and responsibilities As a Senior Delivery Manager at CGI, you'll ensure the successful delivery of digital services and products by leading Agile Delivery Teams through all stages of the development lifecycle. You will play a critical role in fostering collaboration, maintaining momentum, and ensuring alignment with user needs and stakeholder expectations. Key duties include: - Building and maintaining motivated teams, fostering a collaborative and iterative working environment - Running Agile ceremonies such as show and tell, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog grooming - Ensuring team members actively participate in user research, acting as observers and documenting outputs to align design and research - Tracking and reporting on delivery cadence, including burn-up and burn-down charts, team velocity, and progress against plans - Addressing blockers and challenges by liaising with upstream and downstream delivery teams - Facilitating communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and understanding - Acting as a bridge between team members, empowering the team, and maintaining delivery momentum - Running and maintaining JIRA boards and Confluence spaces for the team Required qualifications to be successful in this role - Skilled in applying and adapting Agile and lean tools and techniques to suit different contexts - Experienced in identifying and improving processes to maximise delivery outcomes - Ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders, managing expectations and fostering understanding - Skilled in facilitating discussions and presenting progress to diverse audiences, including at Show and Tell events - Experience tracking and managing dependencies, risks, and issues to maintain delivery momentum - Competent in using data to inform planning and prioritisation - Proven ability to build and maintain motivated teams, empowering team members to achieve their best - Skilled in creating a supportive team environment and resolving team dynamics issues - Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Agile reporting tools - Ability to manage internal processes such as resource onboarding, timesheet verification, and collaboration with PMOs for accurate invoicing #LI-RJ1 Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because... You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Pay up to £75,748, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. Want to grow your career as part of the one of the biggest Agile Delivery communities in the UK? We love to talk Agile. What's your favourite approach? Scrum, Kanban, Lean or something else? Love learning? We have access to paid-for training and development, including qualifications from scrum.org, IC-Agile and other bodies. 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? Experience of delivering software in an agile environment in multiple phases. A strong understanding of Agile principles and practices. Ability to promote a culture of psychological safety in teams, managing team dynamics. Experience of coaching and developing others, taking ownership of your own development. Exemplary leadership skills with a track record of motivating high performing teams. 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: An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Process: We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.