Agile Delivery Lead

Purpose

As the Agile Delivery Lead you play a central role in making the 7IM Platform product a success and as such you will work closely with all disciplines. You are resonsible for facilitating the delivery and the continuous improvement of multiple Squads, including evolving Squad ways of working and agile mindset both directly and through leading the Agile Delivery Managers to do the same. You will have a data led approach to measuring improvements and will have the ability to positively challenge those around you to drive better results. This role would suit someone with a delivery mindset who is able to coach and facilitate on both an individual and group level to make marked improvements in ways of working and drive mindset shifts. This role will report to the Transformation Director. 

Responsibilities

• Own the Agile process at 7IM, working in a collaborative manor with both the leadership team and Squads to consistently improve ways of working through running experiments and sharing best practice.
• Own, directly and through the Agile Delivery Managers, in sprint delivery and associated ways of working leading to timely and accurate delivery of sprint goals cumulating in the successful delivery of client and business outcomes.
• Manage the impediment process, working with the rest of the leadership team to remove blockers and impediments for Squads to improve delivery.
• Partner with the Agile Coach to own the Scrum Heatmaps and work to improve scores across the Portfolio through experiments and implementation of changes.
• Champion Portfolio flow metrics, using data to improve performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Facilitate Portfolio ceremonies such as Quarterly Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Portfolio Retrospectives.
• Work to dissolve any cross-squad and external dependencies, or where not possible manage and oversee to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Manage the risk process within Transformation ensuring effective risk identification and management at both Squad and Portfolio level. Engage with the group risk function on behalf of Transformation ensuring appropriate risk reporting and metrics are in place.
• Own and drive the capability development and best practices in the Agile Delivery Manager Chapter as well as promoting best practices across all disciplines.
• Line management responsibilities for the Agile Delivery Manager Chapter.
• Adherence to all applicable compliance standards and best practices at all times.
• Acting consistently in accordance with 7IM’s VPVPs.
• Other, as reasonably required by your line manager and 7IM.

Qualifications

• Agile certification and experience.

Skills

• Highly communicative; ability to communicate across different levels, inc. Executive Leadership of the organisation with confidence.
• Able to confidently present to large forums with ability to command the room as required.
• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable offering mentorship, coaching, and leadership across the Transformation team.
• Experience of Agile frameworks, particularly Scrum.
• Experience of working in scaled agile environments
• Use of PowerBI / ADO / Jira work management or similar tools to support agile ways of working.
• Experience of collecting and using data to drive improvements.
• A flexible, resilient facilitator, able to explain the ‘why’.
• Able to facilitate Portfolio sessions, ensuring goals and outcomes are met.
• Adept at influencing behaviour cross-team and cross-discipline without having formal organisational hierarchy.

• Must be passionate about Agile principles and enthusiastic to embed them across Transformation team.
• A level of technical knowledge and understanding with an aptitude to keep learning.
• A continuous improvement attitude.