Agile Delivery Lead

Seven Investment Management LLP; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to enhance their platform's success. This pivotal role involves leading multiple Squads, fostering an agile mindset, and ensuring timely delivery of client outcomes. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in Agile methodologies, exceptional communication skills, and a passion for continuous improvement. You will collaborate closely with leadership and teams, utilizing data-driven insights to optimize performance and remove blockers. Join a dynamic environment where your expertise will drive significant transformations and empower teams to excel in their agile practices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Agile delivery and frameworks, particularly Scrum.
• Strong communication skills to engage with leadership and teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Agile process and improve ways of working across Squads.
• Manage impediments and facilitate Portfolio ceremonies for effective delivery.
• Drive capability development in the Agile Delivery Manager Chapter.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Coaching and mentoring

Scrum framework

Data analysis

Facilitation skills

Influencing skills

Problem-solving

Education

Agile certification

Tools

PowerBI

ADO

Jira

Job description

As the Agile Delivery Lead you play a central role in making the 7IM Platform product a success and as such you will work closely with all disciplines. You are responsible for facilitating the delivery and the continuous improvement of multiple Squads, including evolving Squad ways of working and agile mindset both directly and through leading the Agile Delivery Managers to do the same. You will have a data led approach to measuring improvements and will have the ability to positively challenge those around you to drive better results. This role would suit someone with a delivery mindset who is able to coach and facilitate on both an individual and group level to make marked improvements in ways of working and drive mindset shifts. This role will report to the Transformation Director.

About You

Responsibilities

• Own the Agile process at 7IM, working in a collaborative manner with both the leadership team and Squads to consistently improve ways of working through running experiments and sharing best practice.
• Own, directly and through the Agile Delivery Managers, in sprint delivery and associated ways of working leading to timely and accurate delivery of sprint goals culminating in the successful delivery of client and business outcomes.
• Manage the impediment process, working with the rest of the leadership team to remove blockers and impediments for Squads to improve delivery.
• Partner with the Agile Coach to own the Scrum Heatmaps and work to improve scores across the Portfolio through experiments and implementation of changes.
• Champion Portfolio flow metrics, using data to improve performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Facilitate Portfolio ceremonies such as Quarterly Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Portfolio Retrospectives.
• Work to dissolve any cross-squad and external dependencies, or where not possible manage and oversee to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Manage the risk process within Transformation ensuring effective risk identification and management at both Squad and Portfolio level. Engage with the group risk function on behalf of Transformation ensuring appropriate risk reporting and metrics are in place.
• Own and drive the capability development and best practices in the Agile Delivery Manager Chapter as well as promoting best practices across all disciplines.
• Line management responsibilities for the Agile Delivery Manager Chapter.
• Adherence to all applicable compliance standards and best practices at all times.
• Acting consistently in accordance with 7IM’s VPVPs.
• Other, as reasonably required by your line manager and 7IM.

Qualifications

• Agile certification and experience.

Skills

• Highly communicative; ability to communicate across different levels, including Executive Leadership of the organisation with confidence.
• Able to confidently present to large forums with ability to command the room as required.
• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering mentorship, coaching, and leadership across the Transformation team.
• Experience of Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum.
• Experience of working in scaled agile environments.
• Use of PowerBI / ADO / Jira work management or similar tools to support agile ways of working.
• Experience of collecting and using data to drive improvements.
• A flexible, resilient facilitator, able to explain the ‘why’.
• Able to facilitate Portfolio sessions, ensuring goals and outcomes are met.
• Adept at influencing behaviour cross-team and cross-discipline without having formal organisational hierarchy.

Other relevant information

• Must be passionate about Agile principles and enthusiastic to embed them across the Transformation team.
• A level of technical knowledge and understanding with an aptitude to keep learning.