Agile Project Manager

We are looking for an experienced Agile Project Manager to lead project initiation and mobilisation for a strategic data engineering programme within an asset-centric water utilities organisation. The programme is early-stage, with scope, requirements, priorities and delivery approach still uncertain.

This role is about bringing structure, clarity and delivery discipline - moving the project from discovery into structured execution - working closely with the Data Engineering Manager, Business Analysts, Architects, technical teams and client stakeholders.

This is a hands-on mobilisation role. You must be comfortable operating without full upfront information and capable of creating clarity and momentum through effective planning, facilitation and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Initiation & Mobilisation

Lead early-stage mobilisation; establish the project plan, approach and milestones; clarify scope and close information gaps; set up governance and ways of working.

PID Ownership

Own and coordinate the Project Initiation Document - covering objectives, scope, deliverables, governance, roles, dependencies, assumptions, risks and constraints - through to sign-off and ongoing maintenance.

Planning & Roadmap

Build an integrated project plan and delivery roadmap; identify dependencies, critical path and constraints; refine continuously as scope firms up.

Agile Delivery

Establish the Agile framework and ceremonies; support sprint/release planning and backlog management; track progress, remove blockers, drive continuous improvement.

Risk & Dependency Management

Maintain RAID logs with clear ownership and actions; manage scope changes; escalate through governance.

Stakeholder Management

Build strong relationships across client and delivery teams; facilitate workshops and decisions; communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Governance & Reporting

Set up meeting structures, reporting cycles and escalation routes; produce concise status reporting; keep documentation traceable.

Transition to Execution

Ensure the project has enough clarity and structure to move into stable, sustainable delivery.

Primary Skills: Agile PM, Experience with asset centric organisation experiences ( Utility, manufacturing, transport, medical) would work., * Proven Agile PM / Technical PM experience.

• Strong project initiation, mobilisation and delivery planning background.
• Demonstrable PID (or equivalent) ownership.
• Experience with evolving/uncertain scope.
• Practical Agile/Scrum expertise.
• Experience working with Data Engineering, Architecture and technical teams.
• Strong RAID and risk management skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills.
• Ability to create structure from ambiguity; proactive, self-directed.
• Strong understanding of British workplace culture and communication norms, given close day-to-day interaction with UK-based client teams.

Desirable

• Data engineering / platform / analytics / transformation programme experience.
• Water utilities or other asset-centric sector experience (energy, rail, telecoms infrastructure).
• Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP); data governance/integration experience.
• Regulated-environment experience.
• Scrum/SAFe certification; Jira/Azure DevOps experience.

Key Initial Deliverables

PID · Integrated project plan · Delivery roadmap · Governance structure · Roles & responsibilities · RAID log · Scope/assumptions baseline · Dependencies & milestones · Agile cadence · Reporting structure · Transition plan into execution, A hands-on Agile PM comfortable joining a programme with an unshaped scope - someone who asks the right questions, closes gaps, builds the plan, owns the PID, sets up governance, and drives the project toward execution. Not a purely administrative PM role.