Agile Delivery Lead

5 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Hr Legend Full time

**AGILE DELIVERY LEAD (Bellville, Cape Town)**
Market related package with benefits
Bellville, Cape Town

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Educated to degree level (high grade) or above.
- 5+ years experience working in a role within Agile Delivery (e.g. Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Manager, Software Delivery Manager, Product Owner, etc.).
- Certified Scrum Master qualification is advantageous
- Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
- In-depth knowledge of software development lifecycle.
- Expert in the Scrum methodology, capable of explaining Scrum ceremonies in detail.
- Possesses a range of techniques to aid efficiency in Scrum.
- Demonstrable experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organisation and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
- Demonstrable experience dealing with difficult stakeholders and managing stakeholder expectations.
- Experience using tools such as Asana, Redmine, Git and Google Apps (desirable).
- Servant leadership style, willing to be hands on and support, empowering members of the team.
- Of high integrity and professionalism, leads by example.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to solve challenges within the team with creative solutions.
- Ability to think outside the box, to bring fresh ideas to the table.
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
- Proactive, seeks to tackle problems immediately and does not like to leave issues to dwell.
- Curious, keen to discover unknowns and challenge the status quo.

**RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES**:

- Communicate software updates to all key stakeholders throughout the release cycle.
- Lead and coordinate all phases of pre-release and go-live testing.
- Lead release retrospective meetings and track the progress of action points.
- Report on the performance of the release process to the senior management team.
- Remove impediments to the release process, ensuring any release blockers are actioned in a timely manner.
- Work closely with the development team to understand the challenges
- Research new software development and configuration management methodologies to suggest improvements to the release process.
- Lead the deployment of patch updates and ensure due process takes place prior to patch releases.
- Challenge the technical teams to automate and improve deployment, to continuously improve the speed and quality of deployment.
- Act as the point of contact for all communications regarding the Scrum team.
- Work closely with the Business Applications team to handle backlogs and new requests.
- Resolve cross-team conflicts and remove impediments to the Scrum team meeting targets.
- Report on the sprint performance to the senior management team.
- Work closely with the Business Applications team to negotiate urgent requests and challenge the team to adapt and deliver in difficult situations.
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
- Escalate key impediments to senior management where supporting teams are causing delays to the Scrum team meeting sprint goals.

Application process:

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