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

Sanlam; Bellville; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group is looking for an Agile Delivery Lead in Bellville. This role focuses on enhancing team performance and ensuring optimal delivery through effective facilitation and agility. Candidates should have experience in Agile methodologies and previous roles in technology-focused environments. The ideal applicant will possess a relevant IT qualification along with strong communication and group facilitation skills.

Benefits

Opportunities for growth and development

Comprehensive employee support

Inclusive and diverse workplace culture

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a similar role with at least 1 year in technology.
• Track record of high impact and investing in your own development.

Responsibilities

• Maximize team flow time for delivery.
• Optimize meetings to enhance performance.
• Provide clear alignment from missions to tasks.
• Remove persistent blockers to maintain momentum.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Group facilitation skills

Team reflection

Education

Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma)

Scrum Master certification

Matric

Job description

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 risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.

What will you do?

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 and optimize the squad's 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.