# Delivery Manager

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: Colombo, Sri Lanka
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are looking for a hardworking, intellectually curious individual to play the role of Delivery Manager at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).

The Delivery Manager manages planning of delivery across the development lifecycle for multiple applications.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Owns and leads planning for multiple scrum teams

- Work closely with Product Owners to ensure backlog items are refined prior to acceptance into an iteration/sprint

- Produce Agile metrics and reports for Delivery Teams and Partners, driving a data-driven culture

- Mentor and coach team on Agile practices

- Mentor and coach other delivery leads

- Build a culture of continuous improvement and leading team retrospectives

- Encouraging a fail-fast culture of innovation and professionalism within your delivery team

- Play an active role in Communities of Practice to pass on knowledge and build expertise

- Handles risks/dependencies across scrum teams and ensures risk management & mitigation processes are followed within the project by team members

- Liaises with other teams to gather technical and resource requirements, supporting the Program Manager in resource planning and timing of dependencies

- Conduct progress review reporting on planned deliverables to senior leadership and our clients

- Creates and maintains detailed workstream plans and timelines, tracking delivery against key milestones

- Leads issue resolution, providing options and solutions to the team and raising to delivery leadership when required

- Manages relationships with our customers as well as a range of senior business, technology and program management partners

- Understands the roles, needs, and influence of different partners and effectively plan communications to provide appropriate and well-timed updates

- Establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders, demonstrating understanding of their perspective, proactivity, and their delivery focus

- Gathers feedback on team performance, identifying issues and suggesting improvements

- Manages planned release cadence for multiple delivery teams

**Key Skills:**

- In-depth understanding of agile software development projects and lifecycle

- Good understanding of cloud-based system environments and release management practices

- Coaching/Mentoring skills focused on the Agile Software Development Methodologies

- Great interpersonal skills and ability to deal with all levels of management & staff

- Ability to work collaboratively with geographically dispersed cross-functional teams and team members

- Results focused with ability to work under pressure, to deadlines and without constant supervision

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Proactive management style

**Qualifications & Experience:**

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electronics or IT related field or equivalent IT related experience

- Certification in Agile methodologies such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or Scaled Agile Certification

- Minimum of 10 years’ software delivery experience within an Agile Software Development Lifecycle

- Experience working as a Scrum Master/Team Coach within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) would be advantageous

- Prior knowledge of Agile project management tools, such as Jira and confluence

## Skills

### Required
- Agile software development
- Cloud-based system environments
- Release management practices
- Coaching/Mentoring
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Project management tools

### Nice to have
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- Jira
- Confluence

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