Overview
Purpose
As The Agile Delivery Manager, you are a manager and true leader who serves the Scrum Team and the larger organisation. You are accountable for the squad’s effectiveness and outcomes.
Responsibilities include leading the squad in sprint delivery, creating the sprint goal, maintaining the sprint backlog, and collaborating with the Product Manager/Owner to build and maintain the Product Roadmap. You break down the product vision and strategy into tactical execution.
Responsibilities
* Align to the role of Scrum Master according to the Scrum Guide.
* Lead, train and coach the organisation in its Agile adoption.
* Provide leadership to the squad to effectively deliver the Product Roadmap, partnering with the Product Manager/Product Owner, Analysts, Developers, Testers and Lead Engineer.
* Build and maintain the technical and business readiness plans to ensure successful delivery of the Product Roadmap and committed value each quarter and sprint.
* Collaborate with the Product Manager/Product Owner on effective Product Goal definition and Product Backlog management.
* Sustain a focus on creating high-value increments that meet the Definition of Done.
* Ensure that BAU change and maintenance is baked into the delivery roadmap.
* Provide clarity for the Squad on the why, what and how.
* Work with the squad to check, challenge and encourage quality and pace throughout the increment and sprint.
* Ensure Agile events are positive, productive and timeboxed; liaise with Chapter Leads to create experiments to continuously improve ways of working.
* Encourage the squad’s understanding of the 7IM Agile framework and enable them to improve their practices.
* Empower the squad to self-manage, understand, and use data to support continuous improvement in delivering change and value safely.
* Effectively manage and track impediments, risks, and dependencies, dissolving them where possible.
* Enable close collaboration and clear communication with stakeholders and the team.
* Actively participate, share ideas, and drive improvement in the Agile Delivery Chapter.
* Manage and integrate any 3rd party supplier effectively into the squad delivery and ways of working.
* While not directly interacting with customers, align actions with upholding the FCA's Consumer Duty principles to contribute to fair and beneficial outcomes for clients.
* Adhere to all applicable compliance standards and be practices at all times.
* Act in accordance with 7IM VPVPs.
* Other duties as reasonably required by your manager and 7IM.
Skills / About You
* Experience of working on workflow and CRM solution deliveries is desirable.
* Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering mentorship, coaching, and leadership both individually and at squad levels.
* Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.
* Use of PowerBI / ADO / Jira work management or similar tools to support agile ways of working.
* Experience of collecting and using data to drive team improvement.
* Confident delivering formal and informal training.
* A flexible, resilient facilitator, able to explain the ‘why’.
* Able to facilitate sessions to help the team break down complex solutions into smaller, achievable chunks of work.
* Adept at influencing behaviour cross-team and cross-discipline without formal organisational hierarchy.
* Listens to the team and empowers them to tackle challenges.
Qualifications
* Recognised Professional Scrum Master qualification desirable.
* Practical experience working with a software engineering team.
Other Relevant Information
* This role reports to the Head of Agile Delivery Lead.
* Must be passionate about Agile principles and enthusiastic to embed them across Transformation and the wider organisation.
* A continuous improvement attitude and dedication to finding new ways of working.
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