The Agile Delivery Lead - Integration Platform is a key leadership role responsible for driving end-to-end delivery for the Integration Platform & Services Team. The ADL acts as a Scrum Master, delivery leader, and transformation enabler, leading high-performing, cross-functional teams to deliver scalable integration solutions that power the company's enterprise ecosystem. This role spans vendor-led CAPEX programmes, in-house engineering, platform evolution, and BAU/support delivery, ensuring seamless integration across internal and external systems. This role is pivotal in enabling the company's integration backbone, ensuring systems, platforms, and partners work seamlessly together to deliver scalable, reliable, and future-ready digital capabilities.
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Responsibilities
- Schedule user stories from the technical product backlog to the Sprint plan, focusing on regular and timely delivery of business value initiatives; facilitates agile ceremonies, e.g. product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives.
- Manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies removing impediments/blockers to ensure optimal flow of value.
- Guide the team on the use of Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight the business and how to elicit the most out of self-organisation.
- Work collaboratively with the Technical Product Owners to refine, clarify, and maintain the product backlog; together with the TPO schedules and commits stories into sprints and visualises progress.
- Support the Technical Product Owners in managing business expectations and transparency in both product backlog and schedule for all initiatives.
- Define and manage a well-defined process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Delivery Management and effectively manage conflict resolution.
- Ensure the Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done (DOD) is being followed; make sure that each team member is fully engaged in the stories and making a meaningful contribution.
Qualifications
To be considered for the role you must meet the below requirements:
- Degree or Honours or equivalent in a subject related to Computer Science or similar.
- Certified Scrum Master with 3 years of practical application of the Scrum Management discipline.
- 5 years of working in Information Technology in agile delivery within the context of a small medium technology change program. Proven leadership and project delivery experience in a matrix organisation with global teams for a large organisation.
Knowledge and Skills
- Well versed in the use of tools of software delivery e.g. MSOffice suite, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
- Ability to effectively communicate specialist information in an understandable format to all stakeholders.
- Excellent Communication Skills, focusing on core Scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or PMI-ACP certification.
- Experience in Integration platforms & patterns (API, middleware, messaging, microservices architecture).
- Exposure to vendor-managed projects and CAPEX delivery models.
Salary & Benefits
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