Agile Delivery Lead

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Optimise end-to-end flow by reducing WIP, shortening queues, and addressing systemic dependencies.
• Guide teams in kanban-style flow management and throughput improvement.
• Strengthen backlog quality, sprint hygiene, and predictability through improved refinement, planning accuracy, and execution discipline.
• Promote consistent application of Agile metrics and transparent reporting across squads.
• Partner with engineering leadership to ensure effective delivery practices, release management approaches, and quality controls support reliable product delivery.
• Support adoption of better development workflows, observability, and DevOps-aligned practices.
• Partner with Product Owners and Tech Leads to ensure acceptance criteria drive quality-built-in.
• Introduce earlier testing, validation, and feedback loops to reduce rework.
• Promote pairing, peer review, automated checks, and progressive delivery techniques.
• Ensure effective capacity planning, team utilisation, and sustainable delivery practices across squads.
• Collaborate with Leads to align delivery objectives, priorities, and technical execution.
• Ensure delivery governance processes are followed, and accurate reporting is provided to leadership forums.
• Develop and maintain up-to-date knowledge of Compliance & Risk regulatory information.
• Identify, track, and proactively manage cross-team dependencies and delivery risks.

Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include; a criminal record, identity, media, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements.

Hodge is an advocate of being an equal opportunities employer, We believe in promoting equality and diversity which is central to our lives today. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and recognises the value a diverse workforce brings to an organisation.

ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We’re currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.

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