Overview
As the Product Delivery Team Leader, you will oversee the end-to-end delivery of IT products and services, ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, and quality standards.
Responsibilities
* Responsible for Agile / Scrum methodology and planning activities for the IT roadmap.
* Drive the IT teams adoption of cross‑functional ways of working / Agile Squads and grow a team of agile evangelists to support IT and Business Services adoption of Agile ways of work.
* Ensure that initiatives and related frameworks are in place and maintained.
* Understand the SDLC model and manage application development implementation activities.
* Deliver a solid set of requirements artefacts, translate business needs into technical requirements, and develop and implement solid test plans and test cases / scenarios to accurately test all aspects of the system and maintain detailed documentation.
* Work with the Director of Business Solutions to build a Product Delivery team of Business Analysts, Scrum Masters and QAs.
* Coach and mentor team members, support them to thrive and develop in a fast‑paced IT change environment.
* Be central to the agile transformation journey across IT and the wider business services team, helping members of various teams and levels of seniority transition from a Project to Product mindset.
* Develop and manage plans, roadmaps and run quarterly planning sessions.
* Define and deliver individual project deliverables as part of the overall program deliverables, manage stakeholder expectations, manage agile squads in delivering initiatives, communicate and manage tasks and activities to a schedule with the team, and provide feedback to team members as appropriate.
* Effectively manage the plan, scope / budget / resource management, time management (activities and task planning), communications, risk management, QA and testing, user training, ongoing maintenance and support.
* Perform requirements gathering and analytical techniques, interview techniques, data gathering techniques, system documentation, business modelling methods, business process, rules and logic, data gathering to solve complex issues, development of implementation plans, development of requirements and key analytical troubleshooting.
* Lead the QA function to develop and implement test strategies / plans / scenarios to ensure successful delivery of initiatives.
* Provide support to various business and technology teams during delivery.
* Accurately assess the risks associated with each solution design / initiative.
* Support the development of team members from a professional and technical perspective.
Qualifications
* Requires a minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / Business Analysis or relevant experience.
* Strong experience in Agile project management / business analysis within software development projects, or a relevant combination of education and experience.
* Have led an agile delivery team and be able to demonstrate successful delivery over a multi‑year period.
* Thorough working knowledge of the SDLC models / Agile Scrum methodology, IT systems and their direct implementation to projects.
* Experience in driving business change and in particular in operational models and cross‑functional working.
* Strong coaching mindset essential to invest and grow your team.
* Leadership and management skills in leading technical personnel through the delivery of software development projects.
* Strong business and systems analysis skills, test planning and testing skills, troubleshooting skills and experience with numerous technical environments and architectures.
* Ability to apply common, object‑oriented modelling techniques, including UML, use case, activity and sequence diagrams.
* Experience with requirements management, use case and modelling tools.
* Demonstrated leadership and attention to detail skills through prior experience at the tactical / implementation level.
Benefits
* 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays, increasing by an additional 1 day every 2 years (up to 10 years).
* Long Service holiday award – 1 extra week every 10 years of continuous service.
* Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed).
* Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee).
* Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme.
* Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share).
* Life Assurance – 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance.
* CSR Day.
* Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave.
* Subsidised gym membership.
* Electric car scheme.
* Agile/Hybrid Working Policy.
* Dress for Your Day Policy.
About Birketts
Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, we have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals based in Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: Real Estate, Corporate Services, Dispute Resolution and Private Client. At Birketts, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success, development, and wellbeing of our colleagues, helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth. Alongside a flexible and inclusive work environment, we offer the following core benefits.
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