Agile Delivery Specialist

Agile Delivery Specialist

Starting Salary: c. £55,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

Location: Bristol and Norwich

Do you love empowering teams to deliver their best work through Agile ways of working?

This is a great job for someone experienced in leading multiple Agile teams and passionate about driving continuous improvement at scale. It would particularly suit someone with strong coaching skills, SAFe experience and a desire to shape the maturity of Agile delivery across a large organisation.

A bit about the job:

This role sits within our Insight Platform & Enablement Team in Group Functions & Data CIO, supporting the delivery of high‑value technology and data change. You’ll play a key role in helping our teams adopt and embed Agile and SAFe principles—ensuring high‑quality, predictable and transparent delivery outcomes.

You’ll guide teams and Product Owners through the full lifecycle of IT change, removing blockers, enabling effective backlog management and improving delivery metrics and reporting. Your work will directly uplift Agile maturity across the platform and drive efficiency through automation, continuous improvement and clear communication.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Proven experience coaching and mentoring Agile teams, including within a Scaled Agile (SAFe) environment
• Skilled in Sprint Planning & Execution, Backlog Management and Incremental Delivery
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with experience navigating complex change
• Ability to manage multiple teams and support end‑to‑end delivery across the SDLC
• Some project management experience, including resource planning and budget oversight (up to £2m)

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. £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
• 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