Job Description

Agile Delivery Lead – Financial Services – London (hybrid / remote)

#TeamCandour are working with a global financial services player currently in the midst of a trail blazing expansion programmer to add an accomplished Agile Delivery Lead to their growing team.

As well as an awesome career opportunity, these guys offer one of the best benefits packages we have come across including:

• Personal & company bonus
• 10% pension contributions
• Private health & dental care
• + many more !

As an experienced Agile Delivery Lead, you will perform a hybrid role where you will be expected to coach the squad(s) to continuously improve their Agile ways of working. We are specifically looking for someone who has led a technical team and has a technical or development background. You will also own the delivery management of all product development and associated projects. This is an extremely varied, and business critical, role and will include (but is not limited to) the following activities:

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery ownership and oversight across the cross-disciplined squads (utilising Agile values, principles and practices) within a Value Stream.
• Actively engaging in service delivery assisting with Vendor management, Financial and budget management, Legal Compliance and Risk management and more.
• Utilise JIRA boards to facilitate change delivery by actively participating in the collation & prioritisation of the backlog.
• Help the squad to meet their commitments, remove impediments and dependencies as much as possible, escalate where appropriate when the squad is off track, and ensure they take appropriate action.
• Ensure stakeholder engagement, communications and expectations are appropriately managed and aligned. Protect the squad/s from external interference.
• Facilitate and tailor Agile ceremonies, different delivery methodologies, and ways of working at a squad and value stream level.
• Actively manage risks to deliver maximum business value and remove impediments.
• Drive continuous improvement through metrics and co-ordinating shared release management activities across multiple squads.  Drive technical excellence by helping team improve their technical practices and processes.

Must Haves:

• Detailed knowledge of, and experience working with, Agile frameworks (e.g. Kanban / XP / Lean / Scrum).
• Significant experience in an Agile Delivery Manager / Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master / Product Owner role (or demonstrable evidence of similar skills and experience). This must have been managing a technical team.
• Knowledge of project management, delivering within an environment of Programme / Portfolio of change. 
• Experience with support of live complex solutions, Incident/Problem management including major incident management. 
• Financial management of delivering change in a commercial environment – able to support effective budget management within the constraints of a value stream or project environment.
• Experience with agile delivery management and collaboration tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Azure DevOps boards).
• Knowledge of technical subjects including architecture, SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and other modern engineering practices

Curious? Drop us a line and we can arrange a time to run through the finer details….