Agile Team Lead

Mpa Recruitment; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mpa Recruitment is seeking a Team Lead (Consultant) to guide an agile team in delivering high-quality software solutions. You will foster a positive, productive culture, empower team members, remove blockers, and manage risks at the team level with support from a Delivery Manager.

You will lead workshops, drive continuous improvement, and develop staff while maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships. Occasional travel or remote work flexibility is expected as projects require.

Qualifications

• Persuasive and effective communicator with strong negotiating skills.
• Solid understanding and practical experience of agile delivery in software development projects.
• Evidence of leading continuous improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing team members.
• Experience of facilitating workshops and discussions.
• Ability to forge effective working relationships with stakeholders.
• Maintain effective delivery from team during remote work periods.
• Understanding of technology, digital services and trends.
• Experience with user research, design and data analytics is a plus.
• Commercial awareness in client-supplier environments and project finances.

Responsibilities

• Establish ways of working to enable the agile team to plan, forecast and deliver against a backlog.
• Act as a role model for collaborative behaviours and agile values.
• Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop and coach staff to perform well and grow.
• Manage and provide performance feedback and improvement plans when needed.
• Provide data, forecasts and progress updates for planning.
• Facilitate workshops to capture requirements and align stakeholders.
• Maintain constructive relationships with clients, suppliers and stakeholders.
• Ensure data access and adherence to technical quality standards.
• Support Delivery Manager to deliver agreed project outcomes within budget.
• Be flexible and willing to work away from home base.

Skills

Persuasive communicator

Agile delivery

Leading continuous improvement

Coaching and developing staff

Facilitating workshops

Stakeholder management

Remote delivery experience

Negotiation skills

Scrum Master cert

Job description

About the job

As a Team Lead (Consultant), you will be responsible for leading an agile team to deliver high quality solutions that meet client and user needs. You will get the best from our talented teams by creating a positive and creative culture and a productive working environment. You will empower and support your team to perform well, learn and grow in a manner that is consistent with company values. You will foresee and remove blockers and effectively manage risks and issues at a team level. You will work closely with other Agile Team Leads and stakeholders to ensure your team is working on the right things at the right time under the support and guidance of a Delivery Manager. You will take on broader management responsibilities beyond the agile team as required and actively contribute to the Management capability.

The successful candidate will:

• Establish ways of working to enable an agile team to plan, forecast and deliver against a product backlog.
• Act as a role model for collaborative behaviours, agile values and professionalism.
• Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives; applying previous knowledge, experience, and industry best practices in agile delivery.
• Put people first & develop others – You’ll manage, coach and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance
• Actively manage the performance of team members, including the stewardship of improvement plans where necessary.
• Provide data, forecasts and progress updates to inform planning initiatives.
• Facilitate workshops and discussions to understand and effectively capture requirements to achieve a joint understanding of needs.
• Establish and maintain constructive and collaborative relationships with the client, other suppliers and third-party stakeholders.
• Ensure stakeholders can access current and accurate data on the status of the team’s delivery and that technical quality standards are followed.
• Support the Delivery Manager in ensuring projects deliver the agreed outcomes within budget.
• Be highly flexible (including willingness to work away from home base).

MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS

• Persuasive and effective communicator with strong negotiating skills.
• Possess a solid understanding and strong practical experience of agile delivery in software development projects.
• Evidence of leading continuous improvement initiatives.
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing members of your team and wider community.
• Experience of facilitating workshops and discussions.
• Ability to forge effective working relationships with stakeholders.
• Considerable experience in a relevant technical environment.
• Maintain effective and efficient delivery from your team during periods of remote working.

DESIRABLE

• Good understanding of technology, digital services and trends.
• Have experience of working with user research, design and data analytics expertise.
• Ability to demonstrate commercial awareness, particularly in client-supplier and multi-supplier environments, and an appreciation of project-level financials.
• Understanding of a range of planning and reporting methods common to project delivery.
• Scrum Master or similar Agile delivery certification.