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Description
Hybrid requirements: This role has flexible working patterns.
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Want to lead and deliver change that matters?
Are you looking to turn big ideas into big results? Do you want to be a part of a supportive Agile community to help you grow in your career?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As an Agile Delivery Manager, you’ll tackle challenges and guide teams, adding structure, assurance and energy to complex projects that make a difference to millions of people in the UK.
The role
You’ll collaborate with the product manager and team to lead the delivery of services and products that deliver our clients’ strategic outcomes. You’ll facilitate people’s work in roles spanning design, development, and research, playing a key leadership role in multidisciplinary agile teams.
You’ll lead the team in agreeing delivery milestones to deliver on behalf of our clients. You’ll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy in often complex client stakeholder groups and governance structures.
You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.
Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.
Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.
Essential experience
You’re comfortable working on complex or multiple projects. You define and deliver the work without much direction.
In your CV and the interview, please show how you have:
• Distributed work and set milestones for others to achieve
• Simplified complex problems into smaller, manageable deliverables for your team
• Created a team charter, agreed ways of working and collaboratively iterated throughout the project
• Organised your team and its ceremonies, encouraged team engagement and self-organisation
• Connected team and stakeholder perspectives when making decisions
• Influenced your team to achieve greater outcomes and remain focused on the project’s vision
• Selected communication tools appropriate for stakeholder and team dynamics
• Created and facilitated workshops
• Fostered transparency and alignment through building trust
There are other essential skills you’ll need to be a great senior consultant. At interview, please show how you:
• Are proactive, and can work autonomously
• Challenge appropriately and resolve conflict
• Help others to successfully work through challenges
• Support and develop teams, and build impactful relationships
• Contribute to communities and client teams beyond project work
Desirable experience
There are some other desirable areas of experience for this role. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas. These are:
• The Service Standard (UK Government)
• Use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• Calculating metrics and using outcomes to effectively manage the team
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management
If you have experience in these areas, please show it on your CV and talk about it at interview.
Salary
Senior consultant salary range: £59,001 - £71,000
What our offer includes
A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel across the UK is part of life at Opencast. This varies in frequency, and takes into account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
Life at
Opencast
Culture overview
At Opencast, our culture is built around purpose, collaboration and growth.
We bring together people, technology and values to create a supportive, inclusive workplace where individuals are trusted to contribute, learn and make a difference. Our teams work collaboratively to deliver high-quality digital services with real-world impact, supported by hybrid ways of working, strong communities and a focus on wellbeing. With opportunities for learning, mentoring and pro-bono work, Opencast is a place where your ideas are valued, your career can develop and the work you do genuinely matters.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Company Car
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Health Cash Plan
Home office allowance
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Pension
Share Options
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Clubs & Meetups
Free Coffee
Hackathons
Open Plan
Social Events
Team Building Days
Location
Tech at
Opencast
Leadership
David Sarginson
Director of Architecture & Engineering Capability
Tech overview
At Opencast, we use technology to create meaningful outcomes. Our work spans the full digital delivery lifecycle:
• User-centred design: Research, service design, interaction and content design to ensure solutions meet real user needs.
• Architecture: Designing scalable, secure and sustainable technical strategies that guide end-to-end delivery.
• Software and digital delivery: Building high-quality, reliable software that solves complex business problems.
• DevOps, cloud and platform engineering: Optimising platforms, automating pipelines and managing cloud infrastructure to support resilient services.
• Data and analytics: Turning data into actionable insights to drive better decisions and improve services.
Our approach balances technical excellence with purpose, ensuring every project we deliver is user-focused, sustainable and impactful.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Configuration management
Continuous integration
Knowledge sharing
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
Company tech stack
Microsoft Azure
Java
Node.js
MySQL
Microsoft SQL server (MSSQL)
Spring Boot
Spring Data
Spring
Ruby on rails
Spring MVC
Adobe XD
Scalatra
Scala
Splunk
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