Agile Delivery Lead

4 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time R250 000 - R500 000 per year


Duties and responsibilities:

  • Being an Agile expert, coach, and servant leader:
  • Guiding multiple cross-functional pod teams on how to use agile practices and values across product, engineering and operational teams to delight customers.
  • Inspire the team to take responsibility for their delivery process and the outcomes they deliver, focus them on delivering value or failing fast.
  • Facilitate or remove impediments to delivery and waste in our processes.
  • Facilitating team ceremonies, and teaching others on how to improve theirs with a wide range of methods and techniques in your toolbox.
  • Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
  • Coaching on requirements engineering, user story usage, estimation, quality assurance practices, user experience design process, risk management, and more.
  • Being a role model and tenacious driving force with a strong delivery ethic:
  • Exhibiting ownership of delivery and issues.
  • Using simple processes to ensure were well prepared for software release ahead of launch day.
  • Appreciation for and alignment with IT Service Management and Support Engineering processes.
  • Competency in risk identification, mitigation and management.
  • Outstanding stakeholder engagement, progress tracking, reporting and communications.
  • Proactively managing dependencies and cross-team coordination.
  • Accountable for the delivery approach and status within your pods.
  • An Agile Delivery Lead is an expert in the end to end process of delivering valuable software. They are proactive and accountable for ensuring that the delivery approach for each epic is defined, fit for purpose, tracked, communicated, and constantly tuned as understanding of the solution emerges, while also reactively acting as a servant leader that unblocks teams when they hit a problem. They lead on constant improvement to our delivery processes so that we learn and improve our estimation, risk reduction, velocity, technical quality, and teamwork.

Skills and experience:

  • Strong understanding of the end to end components of the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC).
  • A wealth of experience in agile principles, practices, and theory across methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Lean, DevOps, DSDM, and SaFE.
  • Solid knowledge of a ticketing tool such as JIRA a must (We use Gitab which is similar).
  • Be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
  • Basic knowledge of and passion for digital currencies like Bitcoin.

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