Agile Delivery Lead

1 week ago

Melbourne, Australia Advance Thinking Full time

We are looking for someone with proven ability to instill and improve agile ceremonies, how they're run and their effectiveness
- Define project scopes, goals, and deliverables that support the company goals
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks
- Provide visibility of delivery teams status, metrics, progress and issues

Advance Thinking are a boutique consultancy with a great network of clients across many industries.

On behalf of our client, a key Financial services company, we're currently looking for a permanent Agile Delivery Lead to work on the driving the adoption of their Agile framework.

The role will be engaged within great teams and great culture.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Define project scopes, goals, and deliverables that support the company goals in collaboration with key stakeholders, owning the delivery plan for the delivery squads to track progress towards goals and manage dependencies tightly.
- Coordinate and facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, release planning, and sprint retrospectives for the team.
- Coach team members in Agile frameworks and conduct broader agile ways of working to technology groups, guiding development teams to higher scrum maturity
- Provide visibility of delivery teams status, metrics, progress and issues to senior management and other business stakeholder Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests
- Conduct quarterly business portfolio planning
- Assist management to forecast capacity to ensure that the team has adequate resources to meet roadmap requirements.

**Role Requirements**
- 5+ years' experience in a Delivery Lead role
- Experience in Agile practices including Scrum, Kanban & Scale Agile
- Agile Scrum Certification
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks
- Knowledge and understanding on Azure DevOps is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to enable change at team level in the organisation
- Expertise in planning, prioritising conflicting requirements (support and new feature), and scheduling releases
- Experience in negotiating business requirements and priorities with business stakeholders up to C-suite
- Ability to perform analysis and evaluation of projects including resourcing and project financials

**Qualities and Characteristics**
- Pragmatic people person over a strict agile evangelist
- Proven ability to motivate teams and coach individuals
- Proven ability to instill and improve agile ceremonies, how they're run and their effectiveness
- The ability to build strong relationships with clients, partners and staff; to champion a vibrant and diverse engineering culture; and to inspire, support and understand the interplay between people, processes and systems.
- A rigorous approach to project organisation and management, enabling you to solve issues at all project levels.
- Sharp attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills.
- A solution-minded focus, founded on an overarching desire to achieve team goals and help clients and colleagues.

If you think this sounds like you, we want to hear from you, so please go ahead, send your CV in word format.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

- How many years experience do you have as a Delivery Lead?

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)

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