Senior Agile Delivery Lead – Commercial

Emirates; Dubai; On-site; AED 500,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel benefits

Tax-free salary

Job summary

Emirates is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead - Commercial to drive end-to-end delivery of initiatives spanning vendor-led CAPEX projects, in-house product enhancements, support releases, and technical debt reduction. You will partner with vendor teams and Emirates IT to ensure quality and timely delivery across enterprise platforms.

The role combines Scrum Master responsibilities with leadership of a multi-disciplinary team, setting standards and guiding process improvements to achieve business

Qualifications

• Degree or Honours or equivalent in a subject related to Computer Science or similar.
• Certified Scrum Master with 3 years of practical application of the Scrum Management discipline PMI ACP transition of existing SDCs are exempt.
• 5 years of working in Information Technology in agile delivery within the context of a small medium technology change program.
• Proven leadership and project delivery experience in a matrix organisation with global teams for a large organisation.
• Well versed in the use of tools of software delivery e.g. MS OFFICE suite JIRA Confluence etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate specialist information in an understandable format to all stakeholders.
• Excellent Communication Skills, focusing on core Scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.

Responsibilities

• Schedule user stories from the technical product backlog to the Sprint plan, focusing on regular and timely delivery of business value initiatives; facilitates agile ceremonies, e.g., product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives.
• Manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, removing impediments/blockers to ensure optimal flow of value.
• Guide the team on the use of Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight the business, and how to elicit the most out of self-organisation. Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team. Promotes empowerment of the team, ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in the initiatives and is making a meaningful contribution, and encourages a sustainable pace, adhering to the agreed quality management plan with the team.
• Work collaboratively with the Technical Product Owners to refine, clarify, and maintain the product backlog; together with the TPO, schedule and commit stories into sprints and visualise progress.
• Support the Technical Product Owners in managing business expectations and transparency in both the product backlog and schedule for all initiatives.
• Define and manage a well-defined process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Delivery Management and effectively manage conflict resolution.
• Ensure the Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done (DOD) are being followed; make sure that each team member is fully engaged in the stories and making a meaningful contribution. Encourage a sustainable pace, adhering to the agreed quality management plan with the team. Maintains an agile project management tool (ScrumDesk, JIRA, etc.).

Skills

Scrum Master

Leadership

Communication

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Certified Scrum Master

PMI-ACP

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

MS Office

Job description

Emirates is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead - Commercial to drive end-to-end delivery of initiatives spanning vendor-led CAPEX projects, in-house product enhancements, support releases, and technical debt reduction. You will partner with vendor teams and Emirates IT to ensure quality and timely delivery across enterprise platforms.

The role combines Scrum Master responsibilities with leadership of a multi-disciplinary team, setting standards and guiding process improvements to achieve business