Agile Delivery Lead
Mindera, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are looking for a Delivery Lead to join one of our client projects. You will work within the Agile delivery teams and will play an important part in taking products from conception through to implementation. You'll be passionate for delivery and have an excellent understanding of how to define and deliver solutions collaboratively in order to achieve business outcomes and value.
You will be involved in all areas of delivery, driving continuous improvement through coaching. You'll need to be confident in challenging business requirements to ensure the teams are delivering the best possible outcome. You'll work closely with the Product Owner to understand the Backlog, help the team translate that to deliverable iterations and ensure the software is released into Production.
You'll thrive in a high-paced environment and have a focus on quality. The successful candidate will be a champion for exceptional digital experiences for our client's customers and have a focus on quality, ensuring the delivery aligns with the needs of the business.
Requirements
It would be great if you have
- Passion for building high performing, cross-functional digital teams.
- Strong understanding of cloud and microservices
- Working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean and DevOps frameworks
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- An understanding of the technology stacks the teams are developing in
- Experience leading one or more agile teams and can facilitate agile events and champion agile best practice, coaching and mentoring the team to ensure they gain the most benefit from their chosen framework
- Experience building strong working relationships with other Delivery Leads and stakeholders
- Measure and analyse team performance using appropriate tools and metrics
- Experience coaching teams to implement and adopt DevOps best practices, ensuring the team has the right skillset and structure to technically be able to monitor and manage their services in production and identifying where there are gaps.
- Experience fostering an open and honest environment where achievements are celebrated and mistakes are learned from, demonstrating a high level of emotional intelligence to help resolve conflicts, where necessary.
- Experience championing continuous improvement by encouraging the team to trial new techniques and ways of working to support them in their pursuit of high performance.
Benefits
We offer- Flexible working hours (self-managed)
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus, subject to company performance
- Access to Udemy online training and opportunities to learn and grow within the role
- 25 days holiday (+ bank hols). After 2 years of employment you are entitled to 1 additional day a year up to 30 days.
- Private Medical Healthcare with Vitality
- Pension scheme
- 2 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Enhanced Maternity, shared parental and adoption leave and pay
- Conference budget
- Christmas party
- Annual company team-building trip
- Eye Test Voucher
- Autonomous working
- Cycle2Work
- Retail Discounts Scheme
At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love. Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.
You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.
Check out our Blog: http://mindera.com/ and our Handbook: http://bit.ly/MinderaHandbook
Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India
Mindera is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender including gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. All matters related to employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
No recruitment agencies please.