Agile Lead - Principal
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 highly experienced Pricipals can ally technical competence with a pragmatic approach to delivering complex IT and business solutions leveraging multiple elements related to agile ways of working. Our Agile Lead roles have industry leading, multi-year, hands-on agile experience and competency that is complimented with an understanding of more heritage or waterfall project, programme management delivery and operations. Your highly developed agile experience, coupled with consulting skills including client management, business development and hands-on technical / tooling skills and excellent communication, 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 thought leadership, delivery and large scale programme implementation, demonstrable across one or more of our core capabilities, these include:
- Highly developed Scrum skills and leadership proven in multiple situations or deliveries
- Highly developed Product Ownership skills and leadership proven in multiple situations or deliveries
- Agile influencing via implementing agile into an organisation, including the design, build and running of a new agile capability
- Agile Coaching skills proven with engagement from individual level through to Board and C-CxO, engaging, energising and cultivating industry best practice and strategic intent within firms
- Expertise in Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean Development and Crystal
- Expertise in SAFe, Nexus, DaD and LeSS
- 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 m