Delivery Manager - UK SC Clearance Eligible

Location: UK - Hybrid (Typically 1-2 days a month) / customer-site requirements TBC

Contract: 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, and solutions engineering consultancy, helping organisations modernise infrastructure, improve reliability, and adopt cloud-native practices that enable long-term, sustainable delivery.

Our engineering capability spans AWS, Azure, platform engineering, networking, software, data, AI, delivery, and managed services.

We work across complex, high-impact environments in both the public and private sector, where security, resilience, operational excellence, and service quality are critical.

About the Role

We're looking for a Delivery Manager to join Appvia on a secure public sector engagement, supporting a programme that keeps critical services running for organisations right across the UK.

You'll work with multidisciplinary agile teams, helping them plan, prioritise and deliver in short, regular increments. You'll run the ceremonies that matter (planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives), keep the backlog in shape with the product owner, and clear blockers out of the team's way before they've finished saying "blocked".

You'll keep dependencies, risks and milestones in view across teams and delivery partners, and turn delivery data into reports people actually read. Burn-up charts, cycle time and the RAID log should feel like old friends.

The programme is going through a period of transition and continuous improvement, so there are plenty of moving parts and plenty of stakeholders, from technical teams to delivery partners. You'll help apply the customer's delivery methods and standards in a way that is proportionate, not painful, and bring agile ways of working to the places they'll make the biggest difference.

You don't need to be an agile expert on day one. You do need solid, hands-on experience of agile delivery and a real appetite to become an expert. You'll work alongside experienced delivery leads at Appvia, learn by doing on a complex, high-profile programme, and have the room to grow your craft.

We like people who automate the boring bits. If you've ever built a Jira dashboard or an Excel formula that saved someone a day a week, we'd like to hear about it.

You probably won't enjoy this role if you think a stand-up should last 45 minutes, or "I'll update the board later" counts as a plan.

Interview Process - 2 Stage

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

Important

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

Requirements

About You

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

Agile delivery

• 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

Planning and dependencies

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

Monitoring and reporting

• 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

Technical / Delivery Skills

Core:

• 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:

• 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

Benefits

Why join Appvia?

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.

What’s on offer?

⚖️ Work-life balance

• Flexible working hours - because we know life happens outside of work
• Hybrid working - outcomes focused working
• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay
• Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents

💚 For your well-being

• Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%
• Death in Service
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free hygiene products available in the London office

🧠 Mental health support

• Free therapy through AXA
• Access to the Headspace App
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders

😃 Other fun perks

• 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!

But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.

Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.