Delivery Lead

Kindred Group plc; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent technology firm in London seeks a Delivery Lead to manage the delivery of software across multiple teams. You will coordinate work, mentor team members, and ensure agile practices are followed for successful product delivery. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Agile methodologies and experience with microservice architecture and CI/CD practices, along with excellent communication skills. This role offers the chance to be an integral part of a collaborative and dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Agile methodologies and flexibility in processes.
• Experience mentoring and coaching Delivery Leads and Scrum Masters.
• Proven track record in delivering software in complex environments.
• Ability to effectively analyze key metrics for planning and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of multiple teams to production and coordinate efforts.
• Plan and distribute work while managing estimations and forecasts.
• Ensure all milestones are identified and communication is maintained.
• Promote collaboration and representation in relevant meetings.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Microservice architecture

ES6 and ES7 Javascript

React

.Net core

CI/CD practices

Tools

Git

Jira

Teamcity

Octopus

Jenkins

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Solace

Redis

Job description

What will you be doing?

• Drive the delivery of multiple teams to production, coordinating across teams and backlogs.

• Plan and distribute work, manage estimations and workload forecast with technical and business stakeholders ensuring to rely on key metrics and reports for decision making.

• Ensure that all quarter milestones are planned, analysed, blockers & dependencies are managed keeping a channel of open communication between teams.

• Ensure agile team meetings are organised and that the team is represented in all relevant meetings, promoting collaboration with other teams.

• Be the first point of contact for the business and other development teams, being knowledgeable about your team's products.

• Motivate the team and keep up the team spirit, ensure all team members feel important and part of the team. Actively seek to continuously improve user experience and service performance.

We Like To Use

• Agile and lean values.

• Best developmentpractices.

• Microservices and event-driven architecture.

• ES6 and ES7 Javascript, React, JSON.

• .Net core.

• Oracle, PostgreSQL, Solace, Redis.

• CI/CD - Continuous Delivery (Git, Jira, Teamcity, Octopus, Jenkins).

How Will Success Be Measured in this Role

• Strong proficiency in Agile methodologies with a proven ability to tailor and adapt processes to suit the needs of different teams, ensuring a culture of flexibility and innovation.

• Ability to facilitate and continuously improve the teams' process. Ensure the teams are aligned with Kindred Development processes, actively seek to develop and enhance the agile process used by the team.

• Delivery of tasks on time and taking responsibility for your work and the deliveries of the team.

• Robustness of technical delivery, high performance under load, low number of incidents.

• Ability to maintain the balance between requirements and bug fixes, ensuring technical debt is addressed.

• The team is highly functioning, challenged and motivated.

• Effective communication within the team and the stakeholders.

• Incidents are properly prioritized and addressed within the team.

• Gains technical as well as business domain knowledge and is willing to share and spread their knowledge.

What have you done?

• You will have experience mentoring and coaching Delivery Leads and Scrum Masters.

• You will have proven track record of successfully delivering software as a Delivery Lead / Scrum Master in a technically complex environment, ensuring the business objectives and quality standards are met.

• You can plan and forecast for the team's deliverables using key metrics, can report on them effectively and have excellent decision-making skills. You have worked in a highly transactional distributed architecture and understand the core principles of microservice architecture.

• You will have a passion for continual improvement and be able to demonstrate this in previous roles.