Delivery Manager - Active UK SC Clearance Required

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OperationsProject Manager

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Permanent Salary: £40k - £55k + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits Start: ASAP - (SC and NPPV3 Active for immediate start preferred) About Appvia Appvia is a specialist cloud, platform,

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OperationsProject Manager

About the Role

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Discovery conversation with Talent Acquisition
Final interview with Appvia / customer-facing leadership

You must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC). Active SC and NPPV3 are highly desirable.

Requirements

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You're a Delivery Manager with hands-on experience of agile delivery in technical teams. You're organised, proactive and detail-oriented, and you want to grow into an expert agile practitioner.

You will bring:

Hands-on experience as a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, or agile project manager in technical or digital teams
Practical experience of Scrum, Kanban, or both, including running sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives
Experience working with product owners to shape, refine, and prioritise backlogs
Experience managing milestones, outcomes, and dependencies across multiple teams and delivery partners
Experience using Jira to plan, track, and report delivery
Experience using delivery data, such as velocity, cycle time, and burn-up charts, to spot problems early and keep stakeholders informed
Experience running RAID logs, working with risk owners, and escalating issues when needed
An understanding of how agile delivery fits within wider programme governance and project controls
Strong Excel skills, including using formulas to automate data and reporting
Experience of relationship management and working with a variety of delivery partners
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to facilitate sessions and challenge constructively
Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage your own time and priorities in a fast-paced environment
Eligibility for UK SC clearance

Responsibilities

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Lead delivery for one or more agile teams, helping them plan and deliver in regular increments
Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, and make sure each one is worth the time
Work with the product owner to keep the backlog refined, prioritised, and ready for delivery
Remove blockers and protect the team's focus
Coach the team and stakeholders on agile ways of working, and help the team improve every sprint

Maintain the delivery roadmap and release plan, tracking milestones, outcomes, and dependencies
Coordinate dependencies across teams, delivery partners, and other programmes

Track delivery using agile metrics and report progress to the programme and senior stakeholders
Produce clear, honest reporting that shows what's done, what's next, and what's at risk

Agile delivery (Scrum and Kanban)
Facilitation of agile ceremonies and workshops
Backlog management and prioritisation
Roadmap, release, and dependency planning
Agile metrics and delivery reporting
Jira and Confluence
RAID and risk management
Stakeholder and delivery partner management
Advanced Excel, including formulas and data automation
Report writing and written communication

Nice to Have

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An agile qualification such as PSM, CSM, AgilePM, ICAgile, or SAFe
A project management qualification such as PRINCE2 or APM
Experience of the GDS service lifecycle (discovery, alpha, beta, live) and service assessments
Experience delivering in a secure or regulated technical environment
Microsoft Project
Power BI or similar reporting tools
Public sector, government, law enforcement, or emergency services experience
Active SC and/or NPPV3 clearance

What We Offer

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We are a self-funded, London-based consultancy, growing rapidly while staying true to what got us here: a human, engineering-led culture built on trust, ownership, and getting things done.

As we scale, we’re maturing as a business and expanding into new areas across platform engineering, software, data, and AI. We’re intentional about keeping our culture at the heart of it. We operate with a flat structure, agile ways of working, and a strong focus on collaboration, where good ideas come from anywhere and people are trusted to make an impact.

We work alongside our customers to solve complex, real-world problems: modernising systems, improving delivery, and building scalable platforms that enable long-term success.

If you want to be part of a team that values people as much as technology and gives you the space to grow while working on meaningful challenges, Appvia is the place to do it.

✓Learning budget of £1,000 a year

✓Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia

✓Dog friendly office

✓Wear what makes you comfortable

✓Free snacks in the office

✓Pool table & ping pong table

✓Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more!

⚖️ Work-life balance