Agile Delivery Lead : Data Products Empowerment (Group Data Tribe)

Sanlam Limited; Bellville; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group in Bellville is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead for its Data Products team. This role requires expertise in Agile methodologies and strong facilitation skills to maximize team performance and delivery. Candidates should possess relevant IT qualifications and have experience working in technology-focused roles. Join a dynamic environment dedicated to innovation and personal development.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a similar role with at least 1 year in a tech-focused company.
• Demonstrated high impact and commitment to personal development.

Responsibilities

• Maximize team 'flow' time for engineers to achieve objectives.
• Align meetings and ceremonies to enhance team performance.
• Support Product Manager in cascading missions to daily tasks.
• Eliminate persistent blockers to maintain team momentum.

Skills

Agile methodologies expertise

Group facilitation skills

Creating high-performing team rhythms

Focus on collaboration

High agency

Education

Matric

Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma)

Scrum Master certification

Job description

Agile Delivery Lead : Data Products Empowerment (Group Data Tribe)

Location: Bellville, Western Cape, ZA

Who are we?

Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and riskorchestrator for technology across Sanlam.

Agile Delivery Leads are an essential feature of high performing squads. By creating and continuously evolving the rhythms and rituals of the team, they maximize the time and cognitive load in the team invested towards team objectives and delivery. They work within their squad and across the organization to establish optimize the squads' meetings, communication channels, ceremonies and even norms for agility and achieving their outcomes. Optimal team behaviors and inner workings are what make agility and high performance possible.

This is a role where mastery in group facilitation, team reflection and a variety of agile approaches comes together to give the squad the best environment possible to support their evolution to high performance. They work to ensure the squad works smarter, not harder, ensuring alignment, flow, and continuous improvement across every sprint and initiative.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Maximized ‘flow’ time for engineer execution: Team has most time possible to focus on delivering impactful outputs and achieving their objectives.
• Meetings and ceremonies aligned to performance: All regular interactions, from sprint planning to retrospectives, are optimized to directly enhance team performance and drive outcomes. Zero wasted hours in team meetings.
• Clear alignment from missions to sprint tasks: Supporting Product Manager to in achieving seamless cascading from missions to OKRs, EPICS, initiatives down to daily work, eliminating duplication of discussions and delays.
• Elimination of persistent blockers: Proactively addresses and removes obstacles, ensuring that no blockers persist across sprints and the team can maintain momentum.

Qualification

• Matric
• Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous
• Scrum Master certification will be advantageous

Experience

• 3+ years in a similar role with at least 1 year in team and/or company that builds technology
• Track record of high impact and investing in your own development

Knowledge & Skills

• Deep expertise in Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and hybrid approaches.
• Mastery in creating and maintaining high-performing team rhythms, ensuring a healthy balance of planning, execution, and reflection.
• Strong group facilitation skills to navigate discussions, promote collaboration, and ensure all voices are heard.
• A focus on building a culture of belonging and collaboration within teams.
• Incredibly high agency

Thinking Preference

• You look for ways to do, instead of reasons not to. You are high agency, high ownership in everything you do. You know we own our future, only we can make it happen. If you find something that keeps us from our mission, you own it or work collaboratively with others until you find the right owner of it.
• Where some see impossible, you see a way. You have the strong conviction in our ability to innovate and bring financial services, and financial confidence to everyone across the continent. You turn obstacles into opportunity, chance into change.
• You move fast and fix things. You publish early and often, when you fail you learn and go again. You know that speed gives you the licence to fail, because you’re moving fast enough to correct course.
• You love creating more with less. Knowing that the biggest impact is born of the smallest acts, scale is built into your thinking from day 1. This is not about meeting the needs of thousands; it’s about exceeding the needs of millions. And working through small and mighty teams is the way we’ll do it.
• You seek out and value different perspectives. Believing that when we change how we look at things, how things look for us also changes. Making tomorrow not just different, but better.

Personal Attributes

Action orientated - Contributing through others

Plans and aligns - Contributing through others

Optimises work processes - Contributing through others

Builds effective teams - Contributing independently

Collaborates - Contributing independently

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Being resilient - Contributing through others

Collaborates - Contributing through others

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Customer focus - Contributing through others

Drives results - Contributing through others

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.

Our commitment to transformation

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.