Agile Delivery Specialist

Agile Delivery Specialist

Location: Norwich

Salary Circa: £55,000

Are you someone who thrives in an Agile environment and is passionate about driving digital transformation?

We are seeking individuals with Agile delivery experience who are ready to advance their careers and make a significant impact in this dynamic role! This is a great job for someone who loves working with Scrum, Kanban, and scaling approaches.

If you embrace Agile, DevOps, and systems thinking, and enjoy coordinating with stakeholders and encouraging collaboration, you'll find this role fulfilling. Ideal for those with a background in handling complex changes within Agile frameworks and digital channels, you'll help grow our mobile apps channel and improve the experience for our 4.2 million users!

A bit about the job:

Change delivery at Aviva uses the most appropriate Agile delivery models including Scrum, Kanban, and formal/informal scaling approaches to deliver large and/or complex change.

This role improves Agile capability and maturity within the team, ensuring quality and innovation in line with Agile values and principles.

The successful individual will join a dynamic team dedicated to delivering outstanding customer outcomes through modern, adaptive, and team-centric approaches and will be accountable for driving value optimisation, fostering an environment of trust, and promoting software engineering maturity such as DevOps.

Key responsibilities will also include removing blockers, facilitating discussions, and working with Technology Platform Leads and Product Owners to clarify the Product Roadmap, Vision, and Backlog.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Ability to guide the team to follow Agile values and principles and apply the appropriate Agile framework and techniques for the team context
• Knowledge of widely successful Agile techniques and software development processes such as: Test Automation, DevOps culture, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, TDD/BDD, Value Stream Mapping
• Strong Scrum Mastering skills, as a Scrum Master or previous experience as an Agile Delivery Lead / Agile Delivery Manager
• Good stakeholder management skills and an ability to inspire individuals and teams to change and improve, whilst ensuring delivery with collaborators
• Ability to improve and optimise the flow of work across integrated technology platforms and teams

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary circa £55,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days.
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts.
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme.
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave.
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others.
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools.

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours, and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here.

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give a call on 02045922145 or send an email to kirthi.kanikireddy@aviva.com.