Delivery Lead

BE PART OF A WORLD-CLASS DIGITAL EXPERIENCE AGENCY.

Role: Delivery Lead

Location: Hybrid from our offices in London, Manchester or Chester. UK remote considered.

Canvas Reply is an ~100 person, and fast-growing, digital experience agency, development house, and consultancy with offices in London (HQ), Chester, Manchester, Minsk, Krakow, Chicago, and Auckland.

We are part of the 12,000 strong Reply group, working with leading enterprise clients designing, building, and delivering best-in-class websites and applications for an impressive roster of household-name clients.

Requirements

We're looking for an established Delivery Lead with at least 4 years’ experience (if you have that experience from a consultancy or agency, even better).

This role requires you to be degree qualified with a minimum of a 2:1 classification in a Business or IT subject.

Responsibilities

Scrum Master -

• Preparing & Running scrum ceremonies.
• Helping to prioritising the backlog - this requires not only understanding priorities, but understanding the requirements enough to help the PO’s / BA’s with their job as well
• Resolving blockers for the team (whether this is technical blockers, process issues, access issues, whatever the case is).
• Be the conduit between other scrum teams, ensuring dependencies are planned & managed - Typically involved with Scrum of Scrums.
• Fostering a continual improvement mentality with your direct team and within wider program engagements.

Release Management -

• As the scrum master will be running scrum teams that will likely be iteratively releasing code into production environments, they will need to help guide the team and ensure proper process is followed for promoting code from lower development environments, all the way through to production.
• While technical leads & engineering managers will largely be responsible for this, we will need someone to be the ‘glue’ to ensure process is followed, and the team is all pointing in the same direction, especially with regards to prioritising workload if/when issues arise.

Project Management -

Ensure the team’s velocity is tracking against total scope and we are keeping the team ‘on track’ for delivery timelines, this type of work includes:

• T-shirt estimating new requirements and feeding these into the larger delivery plan to understand the impact.
• Keeping a track of team performance (forecast vs actual velocity, etc) & communicating this to senior stakeholders.
• Keeping track of release burnups, metrics for defect management, etc & communicating these to senior stakeholders.
• Keeping your finger on the pulse of resource management, understanding gaps of skills/capability in the team & highlighting this to the delivery lead.
• Have high-level awareness of budget/scope/timelines and work with the Delivery lead to ensure this is managed & communicated to senior stakeholders.

Our benefits

• Flexible working: 8-10am to 4-6pm
• Commission on identified sales/opportunities
• iPhone + Laptop of choice (Windows or Mac)
• Training and knowledge sharing sessions across the wide range of Reply specialisms
• Frequent social events and activities

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £50,000.00-£70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Referral programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Yearly bonus

Application question(s):

• Are you able to be on client site (UK South) 1-2 times per month?
• Do you have a minimum 2:1 Bachelors Degree in a Business ot IT subject?
• Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for this role?

Experience:

• Delivery: 4 years (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London