Senior Agile Delivery Manager- Data Platforms
At Costa Coffee, we are what we craft. We’re reimagining coffee experiences in over 50 countries and counting, as a key part of the Coca-Cola System. Whether you get your coffee in a store, from a machine, at home, or on the go – we’ve got you covered.
Our teams make a difference. Whether that’s working on new tech for the perfect pour, helping our teams grow, creating award-winning campaigns, crunching the numbers, or developing the latest exciting menu item; together, we stir up success.
We may be a global brand, but we haven’t forgotten our roots. That’s where the Costa Foundation and our fantastic community agenda come in. Whatever your role, you can help us change lives in coffee growing communities and help your local community too.
We also want to help you grow in your career through amazing experiences, our apprenticeship scheme, and development programmes. At Costa, you can go beyond the day-to-day.
And as a Senior Agile Delivery Manager – Data Platforms there’s never been a better time to join.
This is an extremely important role within Costa which maintains relationships across verticals include technology-to-business and technology-to-region/market to ensure delivery aligns and exceeds expectations of stakeholders
So, why Costa?
We didn’t become a global coffee brand by sitting back. When you work here, you join a community that values passion, progression and integrity, with some pretty brilliant perks to sweeten the deal:
- Own a piece of Costa’s success by becoming a share owner in Coca-Cola with our Share Investment Plan (SIP)
- A smart pension that saves you money on tax and national insurance, and matches your contributions up to 10%
- The Costa Financial Support Fund, supporting team members who find themselves in unexpected financial pressure
- 50% discount in all Costa-owned stores, and 25% off in other participating stores
- Private medical cover thanks to our Private Healthcare scheme
- And that’s not all. Explore even more of our perks here: https://costaperks
We’re passionate about being a great place to work, where you can bring your unique self into our mix. We firmly support diversity, equity and inclusion, and continue to work with our teams to shape the future of our culture and values: Disciplined to Deliver, Passion for Progress, Win with Warmth, Courage to Challenge and Trusted Team Players.
What you’ll do
Being a Senior Agile Delivery Manager – Data Platforms isabout so much more than bringing our coffee to the world. It’s your chance to stir up real success – which means you’ll:
- Take ownership of Data Platform evolution to realise incremental value in line with organisational objectives.
- Be accountable for aligning OKRs with stakeholders, driving delivery towards OKR realisation, and reporting and measurement of results
- Partner with business, Data and AI, Engineering, Architecture, and other technology teams to align delivery to long term technology strategy including reducing and optimising the cost-base, increasing the agility and resilience of data platforms, and increasing the pace of change in the vertical.
- Ensure organisational budget is maintained by aligning agile delivery outcomes to project Capex and Opex spend for each financial period/quarter/year
- Manage risk across delivery streams ensuring appropriate mitigations are in place, and challenges and issues are proactively dealt with/surfaced/escalated
Who you are
It’s your unique ingredients we’re interested in:
- Thoroughly versed in agile theory and methodologies including up to date on trends and emergent ways of working
- Experience delivering in the relevant technology stack (Azure Databricks, Unity Catalogue, SQL)
- Experience leading/coaching more than one agile team concurrently including managing managers and organisations of between 10 and 50 people (including vendor teams)
- Past experiencing delivering technical implementations, working with distributed teams (think Uk Colleagues, our Sofia team, external Partners)
- Budget and project management
Where you’ll work:
Right now, our Support Centre teams work flexibly, blending home working with in-person time whenever it matters most – whether that’s a team moment, a creative session, or simply coming together to share ideas.
We’re excited to be moving into a new home for our brand in St Albans in January 2027 – an inspiring space from which our Support Centre teams will work three days a week to connect and collaborate in-person to bring our bold ambition to life.