Agile Delivery Lead ideally with financial services experience required to co-ordinate the delivery of bespoke and packaged systems, facilitating and driving forward the business change process with the effective delivery of solutions to our client. We are looking for a candidate with Scrum Master experience who can also stretch this role to further develop a strong SCRUM working practice across the organisation.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established organisation based in LEEDS, West Yorkshire with strong growth plans to further develop its financial services offering.
The role is hybrid with some flexible remote working however you will be required to be in the LEEDS OFFICE at least two days each week with an excellent salary to plus bonus and attractive benefits package including: 26 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays, Death in service x 4, Permanent health insurance, Private medical insurance or contribution towards gym membership and a generous Pension scheme (up to 12%).
Agile Delivery Lead – Key Skills and Experience
Essential Technical Skills
- Experience working in an agile software delivery environment
- Experience as a scrum-master of co-ordinating, guiding and mentoring scrum teams
- At least 2 years relevant experience working in a commercial environment.
- Ability to stretch and further develop the Scrum set up for the team to the next level
- Strong communication skills with the ability to manage stakeholder relationships
- Capable of identifying and challenging the effectiveness of existing processes; of proposing improvements; and of achieving buy-in from stakeholders.
- Ability to work at a detailed level across complex business processes.
Desirable Technical Skills
- Scrum Master qualifications.
- Good knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
- Project management and Prince 2 experience.
- Risk management.
- Experience of Change and Issue management processes.
- Experience using Azure DevOps server, Jira, Confluence or other similar tooling.
- Working in the financial services industry or other regulated environment
Scrum Master – Areas of responsibility:
- Run scrums and manage project deliverables / allocate tasks
- Act as Scrum Master facilitating development delivery through Agile methodologies, with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
- Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, refinements and sprint demos with the assistance of Product Owners.
- Work in close collaboration with the various product owners, system owners and development team; support the Product Owners with emphasis on maintaining and processing the product backlog.
- Guide the Development team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum concepts and principles and ensure they are adhered to.
- Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within the scrum teams.
- Assess technical and resource constraints and their impact on our products and teams.
- Facilitate impediments / blockers and guide the team to remove them.
- Produce and maintain relevant metrics that help the scrum teams measure their performance, providing MI detailing the progress on development and delivery.
- Facilitate the IT business change process, ensuring design and delivery follows the process and identifying improvements to how things can be done
Please forward your CV at the earliest convenience to our Consultant Elaine Hallworth for further information on this exciting career opportunity for Agile Delivery Lead / Scrum Master. To further discuss our client, the attractive package which includes an attractive plus bonus and attractive benefits package including hybrid/remote working.
