Agile Developer

JR United Kingdom; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in resourcing seeks an Agile Delivery Lead to enhance its IT Services. The role encompasses coordinating teams, improving Agile practices, and managing infrastructure initiatives. Ideal candidates will bring experience from agile environments or engineering backgrounds, providing technical insight while enhancing delivery efficiencies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in an IT or Infrastructure role.
• Experience in Agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.
• Background in Engineering or Project Management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate daily activities for IT Services delivery.
• Support Agile squads to improve practices and remove impediments.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of projects with financial oversight.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Project management

Infrastructure systems

Communication

Presentation

Tools

JIRA

Job description

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Join us as our Agile Delivery Lead at Peregrine Resourcing.

At Peregrine, we’re always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.

How Specialist Talent Works:

At Peregrine, we find the best talent for our clients. As a permanent employee of Peregrine, with access to all our standard benefits, you will be deployed across our portfolio of clients as a specialist consultant, working on a wide array of complex projects across multiple industries.

The Role

We’re looking for an Agile Delivery Lead (ADL) to join our IT Services team to deliver and maintain

critical infrastructure services for the global business. Our ADLs have responsibility for the coordination of the day-to-day activities of the squads that make up our IT Services value streams. As an experienced Agile Delivery Lead/Project Manager, you will perform a hybrid role where you will be expected to coach the squad/s to continuously improve their Agile ways of working, alongside having delivery responsibility for initiatives or assigned work. This role would suit seasoned Delivery Leads or Project Managers who have operated within agile environments, as well as candidates coming from an Infrastructure Engineering background with a desire to move toward Delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Apply end-to-end delivery across any allocated initiatives/projects including financial management/reconciliation of spend and balancing of resources – it is essential to have hands-on delivery of infrastructure or technical projects/initiatives
• Guide and support a cross-disciplined squad utilising Agile values, principles and practices to deliver value to our business
• Utilise JIRA boards to facilitate change delivery by actively participating in the collation and prioritisation of the backlog
• Help the squad to meet their commitments, remove impediments and dependencies as much
• as possible, escalate where appropriate when the squad is off track, and ensure they take
• appropriate action
• Provision of appropriate levels of governance across assigned initiatives/projects
• Communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing

Skills & Experience:

• At least 3 years of experience working in an IT or Infrastructure function(s)
• Infrastructure systems experience is essential to enable understanding of the initiatives
• Experience in working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, or at least a core understanding of this way of working
• Previous or current experience within engineering or project management/delivery is essential
• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
• Must be able to work independently and proactively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Beneficial to have experience within platform services / platform engineering / cloud / infrastructure teams

Location London

Hybrid working minimum 2 days a week on site

About us:

At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with our clients, and deliver flexible solutions for every resourcing need, both now and in the future. Together, we help our clients to engage, develop and harness the skills they need to achieve and grow the workforce they want. We have a range of benefits you will receive alongside your salary.

Our culture:

At Peregrine we embrace fresh ideas, and we love learning fast. Our solutions are trusted and established, so we have the confidence of knowing we have a solid foundation. We rely on openness and honesty, and we’re always ready to help each other out. And we believe that our work can benefit society – whether it’s finding the digital talent of the future or being a driver for social mobility.

Our commitment to diversity:

At Peregrine, we’re proudly committed to championing diversity and inclusion, with company-wide initiatives to drive greater social mobility and reduce our environmental impact. Our teams represent a huge breadth of cultures, languages, and ethnicities, and over 20 different nationalities. We also employ candidates from a range of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our partnerships with numerous charities ensure that we can stay well-informed and continue to improve our practices for the future. It reflects in the way we recruit our clients as we assist them in becoming more diverse.