Lead Agile Delivery Specialist

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Datonomy Solutions Full time

About the Role

At Datonomy Solutions, we are seeking a highly skilled Lead Agile Delivery Specialist - Financial Services to join our team in Cape Town. This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned professional to take on a challenging role and contribute to the success of our organization.

Job Summary:

The Lead Agile Delivery Specialist - Financial Services will be responsible for leading agile ceremonies, maintaining scrum boards, optimizing team work focus, and ensuring SDLC governances are complied with. Additionally, this role will involve liaising with Product Owners and Clients around priorities, backlog grooming, sprint themes, delivery approaches, and resourcing.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Team Delivery:
    • Lead/facilitate agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning (including effort sizing), sprint retrospectives,
    • Maintain scrum board (TFS / Jira experience is advantageous), Product backlog, Sprint backlog,
    • Optimise teams work focus: Clear obstacles for the team; Protect team from outside interference/ interruptions allowing them to focus on the work,
    • Ensure SDLC governances and best practice are complied with,
    • Grow the adoption of agile practices (champion & guardian).
  • Planning:
    • Liaise with Product Owner and Clients around priorities, backlog grooming, sprint themes, delivery approaches, resourcing,
    • Create short to medium-term flight plans to provide delivery context for larger deliveries.
  • Reporting:
    • Analyse teams sprint performance; report on delivery progress and cadence.
  • Personal Effectiveness:
    • Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality,
    • Communicates clearly and timeously,
    • Accountable for service delivery through own efforts,
    • Problem solving aptitude,
    • Collaborates effectively with others to meet deliveries,
    • Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines,
    • Aligns to ways of working and team culture,
    • Knowledge and/or experience of working within either Agile and/or other project methodologies.

Requirements:

  • Tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Project Management or related fields,
  • Scrum Master certification,
  • Relevant Scrum Master experience in Financial Services IT,
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, TeamFoundationServer,
  • Background in Accounting and Tax preferable,
  • Advantageous: experience in Human Capital, Actuarial and/or Financial reporting.

Estimated Salary: R850,000 - R1,050,000 per annum

About Us: At Datonomy Solutions, we are committed to delivering high-quality services to our clients while fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. If you are a motivated and experienced professional looking for a new challenge, please apply for this exciting opportunity.



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