Agile Delivery Manager

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Grade: SEO
Total remuneration: £50,411 to £59,353
Pay Supplement:The base salary for this role is £46,677- £54,957.This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement of 8% which is included in the salary band above.
Pension:28.97% of base salary (RoS contribution)
Duration: Permanent
Working Pattern: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns on a case-by-case basis. For example, compressed hours, term-time working or part-time working.
Annual leave: 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Location: Hybrid working model, we value in-person collaboration and anticipate this to take place at least weekly or whenever there is a business need. Contractual base either at Meadowbank House, Edinburgh (EH8 7AU), or St Vincent Plaza, Glasgow (G2 5LD).
Department:Product, Business Analysis and Agile
Directorate:Digital, data and technology
Role Reports to:Agile practice lead
Closing date:Sunday 27 July 2025 at 11.59pm
Number of vacancies: 1

Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. Registers of Scotland is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house. We work to create digital solutions for the people of Scotland. You will get an opportunity to nurture your creativity and develop with us through access to the latest data, software engineering and product delivery techniques.

The Role
We're looking for an Agile Delivery Manager (ADM) to join our dynamic and forward-thinking organisation. Whether it's supporting the delivery of digital services, software products, or critical business outcomes like property deed registrations, you'll play a vital role in helping teams work smarter and more effectively.

This role will initially be based in IT Enablement, which delivers digital hosting, security, and workplace services, or within product teams that build and support software for our colleagues and customers.

As an ADM, you'll collaborate closely with product managers, business analysts, technical leads, developers, testers and other team members. You'll also engage with stakeholders across departments to identify and remove delivery obstacles, ensuring smooth progress toward team goals.

You'll coach teams to take ownership of their delivery processes, guiding them through iterative improvements using controlled experimentation, flow data and other performance metrics. You'll also ensure alignment with departmental and organisational standards.

This role requires a minimum of two years' experience in an Agile Delivery Manager/Lead, Agile Team Lead, Agile Coach or Scrum Master position. This requirement is essential to ensure the postholder has sufficient practical exposure to leading multidisciplinary teams, applying Agile and Lean principles in complex delivery environments, and managing stakeholder expectations.

In addition to managing delivery processes, the ADM plays a vital role in team dynamics - facilitating meetings and workshops, promoting collaboration, and helping to build a positive and inclusive team culture.

On a typical day you will

• Support the delivery process, using rapid feedback to help teams focus on delivering value and quality
• Coach and guide teams to inspect and adapt their process through continuous improvement
• Coach team members in relevant Lean and Agile practices
• Act as servant-leader in teams, helping them become more effective
• Foster an open and trust-based environment in teams
• Measure and analyse flow in teams, using flow metrics to suggest improvements and experiments
• Support identification and removal of blockers in teams' work
• Work closely with Product, IT Enablement or business managers and other stakeholders to ensure that the team(s) are delivering the right work in the best possible manner and that dependencies are managed
• Support teams through the discovery, alpha, beta and live phases when delivering new services under the Digital Scotland Service Standard
• Prepare to be move at short notice across Registration, Product and IT Enablement teams, or in other areas of the organisation, wherever there is a need
• Provide support on Agile-related matters in response to one-off requests from any part of the organisation
• Work with Agile colleagues to surface systemic impediments and support action to increase organisational agility
• Actively contribute to the Agile Community of Practice, coaching and sharing knowledge
• Provide training and support in Lean and Agile practices to colleagues across the organisation when required
• Coach, mentor and line-manage HEO Associate Agile Delivery Managers
• Help with selection and interviewing of candidates for Agile roles

This job is for you if you want

• Work with purpose: working for the people of Scotland to set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
• Flexible and hybrid working: depending on the role and team requirements, work when and where it's best for you and your stakeholders.
• Benefits: enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 28.97%, up to a year's parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
• Investment in professional development: we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
• Diversity and Inclusion: We are an 'Investor in People' and a 'Disability Confident' employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first
• Positive work culture: RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology.Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.

To learn more about RoS and what we offer visit our careers pages or watch this short video.

Hear from our colleagues about their experience of working within our Digital, Data and Technology teams on our website .

Experience/Technical
We will assess you against the bolded Experience and Technical skills during the application and all during the assessment process:

• Minimum of two years' experience working in a Delivery Manager/Lead, Agile Team Lead, Agile Coach or Scrum Master role
• Experience of coaching and supporting teams to deliver through application of Lean and Agile principles, not just applying a specific framework

Behaviours
At application stage, you will be scored against Changing and Improving, Working Together and Developing Self and Others. At assessment your will be assessed against all four Behaviours:

Changing and improving

• Encourage ideas for change from a wide range of sources and clearly explain the reasons for change to colleagues and how to implement them, supporting individuals with different needs to adapt to change. where they can challenge decisions and issues safely.

Making effective decisions

• Analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support decisions.
• Invite challenge and where appropriate involve others in decision making. Display confidence when making difficult decisions, even if they prove to be unpopular.

Working together

• Encourage joined-up teamwork within own team and across other groups establishing professional relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Invest time to develop a common focus and genuine positive team spirit where colleagues feel valued and respect one another.

Developing self and others

• Take time to coach, mentor and develop other colleagues to support succession planning.
• Reflect on own work, continuously seek and act on feedback to improve own and team's performance.

Stage one - application process
To apply, click on 'Apply now' and complete our online application form, you will need to submit:

• A CV setting out your career history and how you meet the Responsibilities and Technical criteria required in the role (we recommend no more than 4 pages in length).
• Provide an example for each Behaviour listed below (150 - 400 words per answer):

1. Changing and improving: coaching a team to try an experiment in changing their process and what your learnings were.
2. Making effective decisions: supporting a team to deliver a product and how you handled any challenges.
3. Working together: resolving any interpersonal issue or conflict either within a team or with stakeholders.

Please note

• If we receive a high volume of applications, we may conduct an initial sift based on alignment with the bolded Experience/Technical criteria and the response to the 'Changing and improving' behaviour question
• We reserve the right to invite candidates to participate in a telephone interview prior to being further assessed.
• Applications that are not accompanied by CVs will not be scoredApplications or responses outside the 150-400 words per behaviour will not be considered.
• We would strongly recommend that your statement is written in the STAR format(Situation, Task . click apply for full job details