Iteration Managers

**Bring your authentic and passionate self to this exceptional role #careerswithimpact**

Are you an experienced Iteration Manager who’s passionate about delivering real impact? At HESTA, we have multiple opportunities available to step into a dynamic, agile environment where collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement are truly valued.

Reporting to the Technology Delivery and Success Manager and working closely with our Delivery Lead, you’ll help shape how we work, enabling high-performing, cross-functional squads to deliver value effectively and sustainably.

**What You’ll Do**

**Iteration Planning & Execution**
- Facilitate core agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, showcases, and retrospectives.
- Support the team in setting achievable sprint goals and maintaining focus on delivery.
- Ensure visibility and flow of work through agile tooling (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).

**Agile Practice & Team Coaching**
- Champion agile values and principles, tailoring practices to suit the squad’s maturity and context.
- Coach team members in adopting and embedding agile disciplines such as story slicing, estimation, and prioritisation.

**Drive Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment**
- Partner with Product Owners to keep backlogs refined, prioritised, and meaningful.
- Collaborate with other Iteration Managers and the Delivery Lead to manage dependencies across squads.

**Support Security, Risk & Compliance**
- Ensure delivery aligns with HESTA’s security, compliance, and risk frameworks (ISO27001, CPS234, NIST).
- Work closely with security teams to proactively manage integration and delivery risk.

**Champion Continuous Improvement**
- Foster a culture of curiosity, feedback, and problem-solving.
- Contribute to our Communities of Practice (CoP) and help evolve the way we deliver across HESTA.

**What You’ll Bring**

You are an experienced Iteration Manager who thrives in a complex, fast-paced, and agile delivery environment. You’ve led project delivery as an Iteration Manager or Scrum Master, ideally in financial services, superannuation or consulting.

You have deep understanding of Agile frameworks, tools and techniques: e.g. Scrum, Kanban, PI (Program Increment), planning, work breakdown, automated testing, CICD etc. You engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels and know how to bring out the best in cross-functional squads.

Tertiary qualifications in a technology, business or a related discipline coupled with Agile Delivery or Scrum certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Master, SAFe) are highly regarded.

**Benefits that matter and make a difference for our employees**
- **_Leave for those moments that matter_**, an additional 6 days of leave at the end of year, up to 6 days paid volunteer leave, gender neutral paid parental leave of 20 weeks, Gender Affirmation leave, reproductive health and wellbeing leave, Cultural and Ceremonial leave. Access your LSL after 3 years, take AL at half pay, and purchase up to 2 weeks additional leave (just to name a few).
- **_Your professional development matters_**, up to $5k per year professional development and up to 8 days professional development leave, HESTA scholarships and free access to a range of premium learning tools.
- **_Your health and wellbeing matters_**, free annual flu shots and skin checks, incredible social events throughout the year and a comprehensive employee assistance program available 24/7.
- **_Your financial wellbeing matters_**, up to 15% super, financial planning support, end of year payment for all Enterprise Agreement-covered employees, incentivised Employee Referral Program and novated lease options.

Please note: Applications via recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position.