Agile Delivery Specialist - £45,000 - £55,000

The Agile Delivery Specialist role supports adoption of and adherence to these approaches, developing and continuously improving Agile capability and maturity in the team.

The Agile Delivery Specialists primary purpose is to ensure their teams drive change delivery as effectively as possible with quality and innovation in line with Agile values and principles. Continually driving value optimisation.

This is a facilitative servant leadership role. The Agile Delivery Specialist should seek to promote self-organisation within the team and drive increasing levels of software engineering maturity such as DevOps.

The Agile Delivery Specialist ensures the path is clear for the team, removing blockers, facilitating discussions, enabling seamless communication and working with the Technology Platform Lead and Product Owner to clarify the Product backlog ahead.

Skills & experience we're looking for:

• A solid understanding of Agile values and principles
  
• A good overall knowledge of a range of Agile frameworks
  
• Good stakeholder management skills and an ability to inspire individuals and teams to change and improve
  
• Knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques and software development processes: Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Pairing, DevOps, Refactoring, ATDD/TDD/BDD, Extreme Programming (XP), Value Stream Mapping
  
• Self-motivation and willingness to learn and explore new ideas
  

What you'll get for this role:

• Starting salary £45,000 outside of London, London starting salary £55,000 depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications
  
• Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)
  
• Eligibility for annual performance bonus
  
• Family friendly parental and carer's leave
  
• 29 days holiday per year plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
  
• Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
  
• Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
  
• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
  
• 21 volunteering hours per year
  

Aviva is for everyone:

We are inclusive - we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you're in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.

Most of our people are smart working - spending around 60% of their time in our offices and 40% at home.

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