Job Description

Our client is an award-winning insurance and technology organisation, delivering market-leading motor insurance, underwriting, distribution, finance, technology and legal services.

They're on a journey to deliver real value to customers with the shortest end to end cycle time, in a way that fully engages all colleagues. They are adopting a lean agile mind-set to help them on the way.

With this is mind, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented Senior Agile Delivery Lead to join the Transformation team on a remote first basis, with occasional travel to either Manchester or West Sussex.

What’s involved:

• Take primary responsibility for the timely delivery of features and product backlog items, driving the product team to achieve committed outcomes and being accountable for the team’s performance.
• Ensure robust, effective delivery plans are in place by executing a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty and contingency planning.
• Optimise the flow of work through your own product teams and as part of the overall change delivery process, by clearing blockers, impediments, and resolving any conflict situations.
• Lead the implementation and operation of Agile practices into your product team(s), including facilitating all events (Planning, Daily Scrum, Review, Retro), and support ‘Scaled Agility’ events such; Program Backlog Refinement, PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, Inspect and Adapt.
• Coach the team and the organisation to work more effectively within an Agile framework and drive increased collaboration across Technology and Data.

Experience & knowledge:

• Extensive experience with Agile techniques such as User Story Mapping, Splitting User stories, Backlog maintenance, Continuous Integration, Pair Programming, TDD, Automated Testing etc.
• Extensive experience in leading teams with different Agile frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban & XP..
• Experience with Scaled Agile and the associated frameworks such as SAFe and LeSS.
• Experience working with Feature and Component based teams within the SDLC.
• Experience in Coaching, Mentoring and Teaching others in the practical application of Agile practices and frameworks.

Skills and qualifications:

• Advanced Certification in Scrum – A-CSM / PSM2 or similar. 
• Outstanding communication skills both verbal and written.
• Excellent skills and knowledge of situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual. improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

If the above sounds like it could be of interest, please send a copy of your CV to thigginson@tcm-partners.co.uk to find out more!