DV Cleared Product Consultant — Agile Delivery Leader

Kainos; Bradley Stoke; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Product Consultant to lead backlog maturity, drive MVP thinking, and articulate business value to the team and stakeholders. You will shape features from inception through delivery in a fast-paced, client-facing consulting environment.

You will run agile ceremonies, plan workshops with diverse stakeholders, mentor junior staff, and help ensure delivery aligned with client and project goals within the Defence domain where DV clearance is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in bespoke software delivery within an external client environment.
• Defence sector experience.
• Active DV clearance.
• Experience across the software development lifecycle from analysis through to live operations.
• Excellent facilitator of workshops and able to lead stakeholder groups.
• Modeling As-is and To-be business processes for buy-in.
• Experience in stakeholder management and tailoring collaboration styles.
• Breakdown of work to delivery while managing backlog quality and maturity.
• Elicitation of functional, technical and non-functional requirements into user stories.
• Ability to prioritise backlog and manage dependencies.
• Proven ability to deliver MVP within commercial constraints and project deadlines.
• Experience contributing to sales activities (bids/proposals).
• Mentoring and developing junior team members.
• Ability to translate technical jargon for non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Owns team backlog maturity from inception through delivery.
• Leads agile ceremonies and fosters engagement and discussion.
• Plans and runs workshops with stakeholders to facilitate consensus.
• Supports delivery of initiatives within the product capability.
• Manages, coaches and develops a small number of staff.

Skills

Client-facing

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

DV clearance

Defence sector experience

User story writing

Backlog management

Workshop planning

Team mentoring

Job description

Kainos is seeking a Product Consultant to lead backlog maturity, drive MVP thinking, and articulate business value to the team and stakeholders. You will shape features from inception through delivery in a fast-paced, client-facing consulting environment.

You will run agile ceremonies, plan workshops with diverse stakeholders, mentor junior staff, and help ensure delivery aligned with client and project goals within the Defence domain where DV clearance is essential.