Senior Delivery Manager - Security Clearance eligibility requi

Senior Delivery Manager - Appvia - Security Clearance eligibility required.

Location: London, UK - Hybrid and flexible working hours

About Us
At Appvia, we're committed to helping our customers navigate their journey to Cloud and DevOps maturity. As a leading provider in the industry, we offer cutting-edge technologies and services to support and accelerate our clients' cloud adoption journey. We're looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join the team and help lead the delivery of multiple projects within private and public sector clients.

Our mission is to enable every company to deliver apps in the cloud. We dedicate ourselves to building a cloud infrastructure layer that allows platform engineering teams to manage, monitor, and update with ease; at the same time, we offer developers the flexibility to deploy their apps in the cloud without a hassle. We are passionate about delivering value to our clients and are committed to ensuring their teams and initiatives succeed.

Interview process - 3 stage

1. Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager
2. Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager
3. Leadership Final Interview

Important: As some of our public sector clients require Security Clearance, you will need to be eligible, meaning:

• British Citizen or ILR
• To have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years
• Have no criminal records
• Have no financial irregularities

About you

You'll be passionate about new technology and automation, and experienced in leading an Engineering Team in Agile and DevOps best practices. You'll also be able to talk to us about your:

• Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices.
• Ability to collaborate with people of all levels of technical ability.
• Understanding of industry best practices.
• Project Management experience.
• Fantastic people skills, including the ability to motivate a team towards a common goal.

Responsibilities

• Leading agile ceremonies including stand-ups, backlog refinement, planning and retrospectives.
• Ensuring the DevOps team is self-organising, engaged, motivated and part of the agile delivery process.
• Engaging with technical architects, tech leads and peripheral delivery teams to facilitate solutions definitions for our clients.
• Ensuring the detailed capture of technical work items on the product backlog and ensuring they are estimated with agreed acceptance criteria.
• Working with internal and client leads to prioritise backlog and communicate the progress of these items as applicable.
• Ensuring appropriate technical documentation is created and shared with the relevant people.
• Fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing between the engineering team and client teams, such as scheduling and managing show & tells.
• Engaging with project and GTM teams on the progress of deliverables and communicating cloud platform dependencies to our clients as necessary.
• Producing and distributing regular updates on delivery, impediments and issues.

Why join Appvia?

We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.

We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.

With us our customers, like the UK's Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.

What's on offer?

Work-life balance

• Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work
• Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month
• 25 days' holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday

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
• Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay

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.