Agile Lead Managing Consultant
DMW Group, United Kingdom
Job Description
The Opportunity
Are you passionate about developing a career in technology? Does the idea of working for different clients on complex business-critical IT projects excite you? If yes, then read on!
Our clients are some of the biggest names in industry and our engagements are every bit as challenging as you’d find in large consulting firms. We believe we offer a significantly better work-life balance than in other IT consultancies because you are involved every step of the way, making career decisions together. We are committed to your personal development and promote continuous growth of skills through a variety of training courses (of your choice).
Here’s what you will do
Our experienced management consultants can ally technical competence with a pragmatic approach to delivering complex IT solutions leveraging agile ways of working. Our Agile Lead roles have highly tuned, multi-year, hands-on agile experience and competency that is complimented with an understanding of more heritage or waterfall project and programme management delivery. Your agile experience, coupled with consulting skills including client management, business development and hands-on technical / tooling skills, are key to enable our clients embed industry leading agile practices across products, projects, and programmes.
You will display a high degree of competence and proven track record in agile leadership and large scale programme/project delivery, demonstrable across one or more of our core capabilities, these include:
- Agile Scrum Master skills proven in multiple situations or deliveries
- Agile Product Ownership skills proven in multiple situations or deliveries
- Agile Leadership, implementing agile into an organisation, including the design and creation of a new agile capability
- Agile Coaching skills proven with engagement from individual level, through team to senior leaders, cultivating best practice and growing capabilities within firms
- Agile event/ceremony best practice delivered to multiple teams to create continuous improvement in agile delivery, leveraging ‘psychologically safety’ techniques
- Product and / or Service creation and road-mapping within an enterprise setting, explaining the value proposition and timelines for agile delivery
Requirements
Responsibilities
As a DMW consultant you will spend much of your time working on client site, often as part of a diverse team, made up of consultants, client staff and with a combination of contractors, vendor employees. DMW consultants frequently work as part of small teams or operating as an individual working directly to a senior client manager.
Requirements
You will be perceptive, personable, culturally sensitive and demonstrate a high degree of emotional intelligence. Being able to work collaboratively in a matrix organisation is essential, as is the ability to manage and nurture varied, senior stakeholder relationships.
You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate technical information easily to your audience.
As well as client delivery activity, each of our consultants gets involved with activities supporting the growth of DMW, for example thought leadership, networking and sales. You will work as part of internal teams, bringing new ideas and project managing internally facing activities of the business such as recruitment, marketing or external partner relationship management.
If your passion is helping clients and contributing to a growing business, then you’re in good company and we would love to hear from you. Please contact us directly for additional information.
Benefits
This is what you get in return
We’ve grown consistently over the years and offer an entrepreneurial environment within which to embark upon an exciting career path, where your contribution really counts, and we will recognise it. With personalised development opportunities, experienced colleagues and exciting client assignments, progression can be extremely rapid for high performers. We are a social bunch of people and go out as a team on a regular basis. You can also expect:
- A highly collaborative working environment and great rates of pay (including base salary and bonus potential).
- A range of flexible benefits consisting of well-being and lifestyle benefits.
- A commitment to your development amp; continuous growth of skills through one-to-one mentoring and wide-ranging hands-on experience.
- 25 days’ holiday and the ability to flex this to 30 days if you chose to do so.
- 2 day’s CSR volunteering days.
- Award-winning learning and development opportunities, including dedicated personal training budgets and time and a wide range o