Delivery Lead

Company Overview

Aeries Technologies

Job Summary

Role Profile:

The Agile Delivery Manager is responsible for leading and implementing Agile principles whilst working alongside Developers to ensure teams understand and benefit from these methodologies. They will act as a facilitator to remove blockers and enable ease of working using Agile principles, as well as ensuring successful delivery by the technology team.

This role will work closely with client facing teams to ensure understanding of high impact and detailed requirements.

You will have an in-depth understanding of Agile principles and practices and technical capability for identifying and prioritizing the most critical areas of the delivery..

Responsibilities

Understand objectives of Client Projects and the role our Technology team play in them, ensuring we work together to achieve them successfully

Use your experience of high-level planning and your detail-orientated approach to guide and manage your team towards success. Oversee and keep up to date all team duties, ensuring delivery milestones are met and the team is proactive and fully engaged.

Maintain and develop positive working relationships with stakeholder and colleagues across our agency, collaborate with them to define and refine requirements, backlogs and priorities, keeping them up to date on delivery at all stages

Support and empower multi-disciplined teams ensuring they are motivated, collaborative and working well together

Identify and manage risks, ensuring delivery to agreed timescales

Facilitate, coordinate and manage ceremonies such as planning, refinement, stand-ups and retrospectives

Encourage and foster a culture of continuous improvement, championing an agile mindset across the team and into our wider business

Oversee successful delivery into production, identifying obstacles and helping the team to overcome them

Lead, influence and coach others, including those more senior, on the implementation and adoption of best practice Agile and DevOps methodologies

The ideal background and skills we are looking for include:

Proven experience leading delivery within software development or technical engineering for multiple concurrent clients, customers or stakeholders

Working with multi-disciplined matrix teams

Significant knowledge of introducing and coaching Agile methodologies and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and Lean

Hands-on knowledge configuring and using tools that support agile and collaborative working, e.g. Jira, Azure Devops, Git

Good understanding of the holistic lifecycle of Software Development and previous experience of implementing DevOps practices within an organization,

Understand and advocate DevOps culture and squad mentality in SDLC

Excellent facilitation skills and change management experience

Great interpersonal and communication skills and a passion for Agile

Experience with the following would also be beneficial:

Previous technical experience, especially in BI solutions and the Microsoft Azure Data stack

Experience of, or a keen interest in, the business of sport.

Qualifications

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Preferred Skills

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Experience

• 8+

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Growth Opportunities

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