Agile Delivery Lead
Posted 3 days ago by IPS Group
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Agile Delivery Lead will be instrumental in the ongoing development of a core internal platform for a rapidly growing Lloyd’s specialty (re)insurer. This role emphasizes effective delivery across multiple product teams, ensuring clarity, coordination, and momentum throughout the development lifecycle. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, focusing on clear communication and structured delivery. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape delivery practices within a modern and inclusive culture.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive delivery across multiple Agile teams with consistent release cadence.
- Coordinate release planning, ensuring readiness, testing and confidence in deployment.
- Work closely with engineering and architecture to manage dependencies and sequencing.
- Break large epics into deliverable increments across sprints and releases.
- Stay close to quality and testing, using insights to influence planning.
- Maintain open, transparent communication via stand-ups, retros, demos and updates.
- Bring clarity and structure to a complex, fast-moving delivery environment.
Key Skills:
- Experience as an Agile Delivery Lead, Delivery Manager or Scrum Master within a software/platform environment.
- Strong understanding of Agile and hybrid delivery methods across multi-team setups.
- Highly organised, proactive approach—nothing slips through the cracks.
- Comfortable discussing technical trade-offs, dependencies and sequencing with engineering leads.
- Calm, pragmatic risk and blocker management.
- Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- A collaborative, inclusive style that helps teams stay focused, aligned and motivated.
- Strong communication skills across onshore and offshore teams.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Agile Delivery Lead – Lloyd’s Market | Specialty (Re)Insurance | London
A rapidly scaling Lloyd’s specialty (re)insurer is looking for an Agile Delivery Lead to play a pivotal role in the continuous development of a core internal platform that underpins their Insurance, Partnerships, Reinsurance and Exposure Management functions. This business is known for its modern, analytical and genuinely collaborative culture—low ego, inclusive, curious, and focused on simplicity and excellence. If you value clear communication, fast-paced delivery, and a supportive team environment, this could be the right move.
The Role
As Agile Delivery Lead, you’ll take ownership of driving effective, well-structured delivery across multiple product teams. You’ll bring clarity, coordination and momentum to the development lifecycle—ensuring releases are planned confidently, risks are understood early, and teams remain aligned throughout short, iterative delivery cycles.
You will:
- Drive delivery across multiple Agile teams with consistent release cadence.
- Coordinate release planning, ensuring readiness, testing and confidence in deployment.
- Work closely with engineering and architecture to manage dependencies and sequencing.
- Break large epics into deliverable increments across sprints and releases.
- Stay close to quality and testing, using insights to influence planning.
- Maintain open, transparent communication via stand-ups, retros, demos and updates.
- Bring clarity and structure to a complex, fast-moving delivery environment.
What You’ll Bring
Experience as an Agile Delivery Lead, Delivery Manager or Scrum Master within a software/platform environment. Strong understanding of Agile and hybrid delivery methods across multi-team setups. Highly organised, proactive approach—nothing slips through the cracks. Comfortable discussing technical trade-offs, dependencies and sequencing with engineering leads. Calm, pragmatic risk and blocker management. Excellent facilitation and stakeholder management skills. A collaborative, inclusive style that helps teams stay focused, aligned and motivated. Strong communication skills across onshore and offshore teams.
Why Join?
Work in a vibrant, modern Lloyd’s market environment. Join a business early in its growth journey with huge scope to shape delivery practice. A culture built on curiosity, openness, collaboration and radical simplicity. Real opportunity to make impact day-to-day.