Agile Lead

  • Cajamarca
  • Confidencial

: All stages in our recruitment process can be done remotely: Agile Lead

Location : Remote Poland PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Digital Business Services is an integrated global group of over 3500 technologists and commercial thinkers, working across our offices in London, Poland, India, China, Hong Kong, the US, Canada and Mexico.

The most exciting digital revolution in the Banks history is happening right now. The global digital solutions we are creating will influence the banking behaviour of over 37 million customers worldwide. Such an exciting journey comes with a truly unique career opportunity: working alongside a growing team of experts from world: leading technology companies to embed digital into the heart of the bank.

The work includes developing an online experience; using digital messaging to enhance our customer relationships; building and improving the underlying technology and security platforms; and innovating our propositions to compete effectively in a mobile, data: driven world. You will be part of a cross functional team transforming our digital capabilities. Driving innovation, delivering products in ever shortening cycles and helping to drive the continuous improvement of our processes, tooling and engineering practices.

The role holder is a servant leader, passionate, inspiring technologist who leads by example, champions innovation and quality and knows how to deliver.

The Role

Using an Agile development approach to fit large, complex projects, you will be an expert in lean/agile project methodologies. Highly experienced in software delivery you will be responsible for planning, leading, organising, and motivating your cross: functional team to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering products that provide exceptional business value. RESPONSIBILITIES Facilitate the delivery of working software from concept to live using Agile methodologies Help align business goals with release plans to ensure timely delivery of features Fostering collaboration among teams and protect the team from external influences or distractions Arrange and lead agile ceremonies, daily scrum, sprint planning, refinement sessions, discovery sessions, sprint demo and retrospectives Challenge the team to improve on process and inspire them to find new better ways of working Help identify and mitigate delivery risks Drive, track and communicate the progress of sprints and releases through team velocity and burn down charts Enable/unblock the CFT to ensure the team has all they need to deliver SKILLS MUST Strong practical experience and understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, XP, BDD and TDD Having worked in teams delivering complex projects on time and schedule, resolving problems at team and organization level Has strong interpersonal and communication skills and proven experience managing stakeholders and teams Great communication: convey your thoughts, ideas and opinions clearly and concisely face: to: face or virtually to all levels up and down stream Experienced in estimation techniques and planning delivery of software development projects Experience in effectively collaborating with wider non: agile teams Stakeholder management with statistics around tasks, backlog tracking, and burn down metrics, velocity, and user stories etc. Exposure and experience with the SDLC; design, coding, test, build, QA, deployment and maintenance and with service orientated architecture Demonstrable ability to self: manage, be proactive, take ownership, build relationships and drive solutions through from inception to production Regularly demonstrate these qualities: drive, motivation, determination, dedication, resiliency, honesty and enthusiasm Influence and champion new ideas and methods Professional experience with tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, GitHub NICE TO HAVE Personal side projects / contributions to open source (e.g. GitHub) Big tech / incubator / startup experience: exposure to new technologies Clo