Agile Delivery Lead

October 14, 2024

Dynamic Planner

Reading

Location: Hybrid / Reading

Role purpose

This role is ideal for experienced agile practitioners who are accountable for delivery ready to drive greater alignment and results at scale, by empowering and leading the team to maximise their potential.
Provide drive and leadership in evaluating and implementing applicable agile processes and methodologies to maximise flow and delivery of value to our end users
Effectively communicate team velocity and progress in all relevant forums developing stakeholder confidence through learning the Dynamic Planner product set, developing your understanding of the financial advice domain, evolving our agile processes and making a great contribution within our delivery team.

Key responsibilities

Coaching agile teams: Adopting a mentor / coach mentality and approach across multiple agile teams on best practices, helping them to troubleshoot issues and improve their delivery of value
Enable alignment: Facilitating key agile ceremonies – sprint planning, stand ups, retrospectives, and reviews to ensure alignment across teams
Removing impediments: Proactively identifying and removing roadblocks that prevent the team being successful, ensuring smooth workflow
Overseeing end-to-end flow: Track dependencies and work in progress to identify and address bottlenecks in the delivery process
Improving technical practices: Work on enhancing technical practices to improve quality, velocity and business value
Managing risks and trade-offs: Proactively identifying, assessing and managing risks, allowing informed decisions to balance any trade-offs and escalate key risks and issues appropriately
Increase flexibility and adaptability: Encouraging adaptive planning and quick responses to change, making the team more flexible and resilient
Focus on outcomes: Bring a greater focus on outcomes and business value to the teams, ensuring that the work being done aligns with organisational goals
Ownership: Owns the teams’ velocity and sprint burndown, identifying the impediments and owning the resolution via team and / or cross functional collaboration
Support your Product Owner: Support the planning and prioritising of the backlog according to business value and adapting the ways of working to maximise efficiency
Iteration planning: Track and support the realisation of user stories and release planning to support the programme increments
Team support and oversight: Provide key metrics and actively look to improve team wellbeing and flow
Keep abreast with agile best practices and new trends.

Career development

Career development is a unique journey for each individual and within Dynamic Planner you will have the opportunity to work in an innovative environment that fosters creativity and professional growth.

Key stakeholders

Head of Delivery
Product Owners
Development Teams
Project Managers
Customer Success Managers
Customer Success Associates

Competencies

Experience in a Scrum Master / Agile Delivery / Project Management role for at least two years for a software development team is a must.
Personal financial advice domain knowledge would be a bonus.
Experience in Lean Product Development would be a bonus.
Technical Skills

Understanding of Agile frameworks
Technical problem solving and removing impediments
Technical proficiency, specifically in software development practices
Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
Advance knowledge of Azure Dev Ops boards and backlogs
Adaptability and continuous improvement

Soft Skills

Flexibility in adopting the appropriate methodology and ways of working across different teams
Effective communication and the ability to lead meetings & presentations appropriately to all team members and stakeholders
Collaboration and conflict resolution
Stakeholder Engagement and Team empathy
Great communication, presentation and time management

Education & qualifications

Scrum Master / Certified Agile Leader / Prince2 Agile / SAFe Agilist certification would be a bonus.

I love coming into work every day at Dynamic Planner. I feel valued as an individual and enjoy great relationships with really talented people right across the organisation.

Glenn Bryant

Content and Communications Executive

I never feel like a number on a spreadsheet. And I love being able to work flexibly. I start my day at 8am. I’m a morning person. That really suits me.

Claire Bull

Product Owner