Delivery Lead

3 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Lula Full time

**WHAT WE DO**

We're Lula. We build innovative fintech products to help SMEs make cash flow. From instant access to funding to all-in-one business banking accounts and cutting-edge financial analysis tools, we're on it

Our purpose is to help SMEs manage their business better, faster, simpler, Lula, so they can spend more time doing what they love.

Speaking of love, we're looking for Lulas who love to make a difference to join our team and change the game.

**OUR VALUES**
- **_Collaborative_**_ - we're a clan and work together as a team, always towards a common goal_
- **_ Committed_**_ - we're accountable and follow through no matter the challenge_
- **_ Curious_**_ - we look for better ways to do things and make a positive difference_
- **_ Connected _**_- we stay close to, learn from and look to understand each other and our customers_
- **_ Compassionate _**_- we go out of our way to care about our colleagues, our customers and our community_

**OVERALL PURPOSE**

We are looking for an experienced Delivery Lead to join our engineering team and support the delivery of our platform and business bank which underpins our business. You will need to have a solid technical background, good understanding of the SDLC and a proven track record of managing a team delivering a pipeline of continuous change.

In this role you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage the roadmap, ensuring that business priority is clearly understood and stakeholders' expectations are effectively managed. Working closely with the engineering and product teams, you will be responsible for maintaining the delivery cadence, resolving blockers and delivery dependencies. Overall ensuring that the team delivers the specified requirements, on time and to expected quality standards.

Duties and responsibilities include, but will not be limited to:

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and manage the backlog and roadmap, ensuring that business priority is clearly understood and stakeholders' expectations are effectively managed.
- Ensure and manage clear communication of delivery expectations to both internal stakeholders and external partner delivery leads.
- Work closely with the engineering team, to maintain the delivery cadence, resolving blockers, risks and delivery dependencies. Overall ensuring that the team delivers the expected business outcomes.
- Coordinate the planning and execution of deployments ensuring minimum disruption to business. The transition must be effectively managed and clearly communicated ensuring that all relevant stakeholders are prepared and aligned.
- Measuring the implementation efficiencies within the Agile delivery framework and ensuring teams adhere to agile best practices. This might include aligning some engineering team ceremonies, such as sprint planning, standups or refinement sessions. This would include facilitating some programme aligned agile ceremonies, such as quarterly planning, retrospectives, reviews or scrum of scrums.
- Tracking key metrics and reporting on implementation progress with a focus on continuous improvement and optimisation.

**THE COMPETENCIES WE'RE AFTER**
- Ability to manage multiple high-impact projects and programs, ensuring the are delivered on time, within scope and budget
- Ability to adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
- Track and report on delivery progress, risks, issues, providing transparency to management
- Excellent planning and organisation skills
- Ensure the effective utilisation of Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
- Measuring of the team efficiency within the Agile framework, ensuring alignment of stand-ups, refinements and sprint planning sessions
- Facilitating ceremonies, such as quarterly planning, Scrum of scrums and retrospectives
- Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation and negotiation skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to manage expectations, risks and issues in a proactive manner
- Strong collaboration skills and a passion for working with people
- Strong strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Positive, high energy and committed to live, demonstrate and get excited about the Lula values

**THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR**
- Relevant or applicable Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years of working experience as a Delivery Lead or similar role in an agile delivery environment with a proven track record of delivering business outcomes
- A practical understanding of the software delivery life-cycle
- Thorough understanding of project management best practices, project management certification an added bonus
- Thorough Agile Coaching and Scrum Master experience
- Experience working with cross-functional teams
- Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Slack - Lula uses the Atlassian stack
- Financial services or banking experience advantageous

**ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY'S EE TARGETS

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