Agile Delivery Specialist

Agile Delivery Specialist

Starting Salary: c. £50,000 to c. £60,000  (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

Location: Bristol, York and Norwich

Are you someone who thrives on delivering meaningful change?

Do you enjoy enabling Agile teams to perform at their best? Are you a confident communicator who can influence, collaborate and build strong relationships across business and technical teams? If you’re passionate about driving continuous improvement and using Agile ways of working to deliver high‑quality data solutions, this could be the perfect next step for you.

A bit about the job

We’re looking for an Agile Delivery Specialist to join our Finance Data Delivery team. In this role, you’ll lead our Agile delivery approach — supporting the team to turn business requirements into high‑quality data solutions for our Accounting and Actuarial colleagues.

You’ll employ Agile delivery techniques to manage the development, testing and implementation of practical data architectures and drive improvements in data reliability, efficiency and quality. You’ll remove blockers, support backlog prioritisation, plan sprints, and keep everything moving smoothly through the change lifecycle. You’ll also provide clear, concise progress updates to stakeholders and encourage a culture of transparency, learning and continuous improvement.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Proven Track record of leading multiple development teams using Agile delivery practices with the Ability to manage and track budgets up to £2m
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and build positive relationships across business and technical teams
• Project management experience, including resource planning and risk/issue management
• Experience using Confluence, Jira, Microsoft packages and some experience of the AWS Cloud platform
• Basic knowledge of accounting processes is preferable

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary between c. £50,000 and c. £60,000 (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
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• 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.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com