Job Title: Agile Delivery Lead
Reports To: Agile People Manager
Job Location: Remote (UK, Spain, Germany, Italy or Ireland)
Employment Status: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive and market-based

Who is ControlPlane?

ControlPlane is a London headquartered consultancy specialising in cloud native, Kubernetes, and open source solutions. Our expertise lies in helping organisations adopt and secure complex cloud infrastructures, implementing architectures that are secure by design and by default. This engineering excellence has driven ControlPlane deeper into cybersecurity providing services like threat modelling, penetration testing, and supply chain security to ensure robust protection against cyberattacks in containerised and cloud native environments.

We are acclaimed for our contributions to securing highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and national infrastructure. We help businesses improve their security posture through services like DevSecOps consulting, zero-trust architectures, and platform engineering. ControlPlane also focuses on advancing best practices in the Kubernetes ecosystem, offering specialised training and community engagement.

Our clients range from multinational banks to tech giants and public clouds, where we assist with both security and operational needs. In addition to consulting, we are active in the open source community, supporting projects like Flux CD and providing security tools for Kubernetes environments.

Over the coming years, you’ll see us retain our focus on solving difficult problems for clients with pragmatic, real world solutions. Taking our extensive R&D to help organisations consume next generation and open source projects safely and securely - that might include extending our work with FINOS AI Readiness, or the overhaul of open source and supply chain security programmes.

What We’re Looking For in an Agile Delivery Lead

We’re looking for an experienced Agile Delivery Lead who is able to confidently and kindly support the delivery of critical cybersecurity outcomes for a multi-national retail banking client. This role sits within a programme of work, focused on securing the client’s software supply chain, that existing ControlPlane consultants already service, so you will join a supportive group of Agile Delivery Leads and Security Engineers who will help bring you up to speed. 

Our ideal candidate will have the following core competencies:

• Optimising for delivery: A problem-solving approach that recognises and reduces barriers to delivery, even in regulated environments
• Agile expertise: A mature and pragmatic understanding of Agile principles and practices and how to best apply them with teams that work within constraints
• Consulting: A willingness to be part of a consulting environment where strong building positive client relationships is at the core of the role
• Enhancing ways of working: An ability to co-create bespoke ways of working for teams and organisations that enable feedback-driven, iterative development
• Value-centricity: An ability to discern what value looks like to the client and a proactiveness to act on this
• Stakeholder engagement: Excellent written and verbal communication to provide stakeholders with the understanding and visibility they need
• Data analysis: Ability to perform basic data analysis to help understand situations through qualitative and quantitative insights

Roles, Responsibilities, and Requirements 

On Client:

• Fulfill the Scrum Master accountability within a cybersecurity programme of work 
• Support the client programme alongside another ControlPlane Agile Delivery Lead e.g. jointly facilitating the Monthly Programme Reviews 
• Be willing to be hands-on with the delivery complexities and constraints of working with regulated, multi-national clients, including discovery of client processes and reporting into their PMO
• Work with third-party vendors and other teams to achieve shared outcomes
• Enhance the team’s ability to resolve impediments and/or blockers and, where needed, bring in support/input from outside of the team
• Enable the accuracy and maintenance of sources of stakeholder visibility e.g. client roadmaps and documentation
• Be open to navigating a highly technical domain, working along technically specialised colleagues

At ControlPlane: 

• Be a role model of our values of Kind Collaboration, Take The Initiative and  Growth Mindset
• Champion the tenants of a transparent and blame-free culture, building strong relationships with clients and CP colleagues alike 
• Be an active member of the Agile team who is open to learning, growing, and contributing to our community of practice 

Benefits

ControlPlane is a dynamic, cutting edge, and passionate business for which to work. Our employees are the heart of our business, which means we care about our company culture and our employees’ wellbeing and progression. Alongside this, as our colleague, you will have the following benefits:

• Generous and competitive salary
• Top spec hardware
• Discretionary team bonus
• Healthcare - details and scope provided during the interview process
• An individual training budget for personal development, including but not limited to:
• Conferences
• Training (books, courses, coaching, as well as internal training which is of course included beyond budget)
• Qualifications
• Individual development time for:
• Training
• Conference attendance
• Company research and development time

We believe our people are as important as the technology we use. We’re looking for individuals of the highest personal calibre, quietly confident, with a strong work ethic, a keenness to learn, emotional maturity, and respect. We value those who understand that “we” is more important than “me” and who embrace human diversity in all its forms. As one of our early employees, you will help us build a company culture of which we can all be proud. If you share these values, we want you.