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Summary:
- As a Senior Agile Delivery Consultant at Qodea, you will play a critical role in driving the success of the business by leading project teams focused on delivering high-quality solutions to our clients.
- You will support our sales department in expanding existing accounts through effective discovery and consultancy activities and provide advice and recommendations, based on expertise and experience, to address client needs.
- You will ideally have a variety of roles in a variety of domains in your background such as Business Analyst, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile Lead.
- Familiarity with Cloud technology would be hugely beneficial along with experience in working on cross-discipline projects – Data, AI/ML, Platform, App Dev, Security – in a consultancy environment.
- This is a customer-facing role, so strong presentation skills are important and there is a requirement for occasional travel to customer sites.
Responsibilities:
- Comprehensive analysis of business operations, information systems, and technical infrastructures.
- Estimate, plan and implement the analysis activity for projects and engagements; including leading the engagement with stakeholders to understand their requirements and sometimes challenge their value.
- Effective requirement elicitation, management, and traceability, functional and nonfunctional.
- Manage the backlog as ‘Product Owner’ on behalf of the client, maximize value delivered, validate features and support test activity.
- Work closely with technical professionals to lead effective discovery to enable development of solutions that deliver value, understand business benefits, and dependencies.
- Delivering agreed outcomes from projects using appropriate management techniques, collaboration, leadership, and governance.
- Tailor the Agile approach according to the project context; facilitate Agile events and assist others to understand the Agile approach and selected framework.
- Coach others (inside & outside of the Agile Delivery function) on topics such as elicitation methods, estimation, iterative development etc.
- Create and deliver presentations to demonstrate delivered features and explain how they meet client needs.
- Effectively monitor and report Agile metrics against each allocated project.
- Effectively monitor the delivery team compliance with Agile Delivery function standards.
- Actively promote agile methodologies and frameworks as an organisational strength to customers.
- Help to evolve the Agile Delivery function by sharing knowledge and skills and coaching more junior members of the team.
- Improving organisational performance by developing the performance of projects and workgroups to meet agreed objectives with measurable results.
- Work with the Sales function to assist with project scoping/discovery activity and sales meetings to support expansion in existing accounts or new opportunities and help customers understand the value of Agile Delivery.
- Be proactive in driving towards social progress and positive impacts, whether that’s getting involved in one of our community projects or simply buying local when travelling with the company.
Requirements:
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal, to manage external stakeholders effectively.
- Proven leadership skills, with experience of leading both projects and teams.
- Expert leading of Discovery activities and workshop facilitation.
- Relevant BA and/or PO certification.
- Relevant Agile certification.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary.
- Private healthcare scheme.
- Company pension.
- Death in Service – 4x annual salary.
- Flexible annual leave policy and your birthday off.
- 10 learning days per year.
- Length of service awards.
- Work from anywhere for up to 90 days per year.
- Sabbatical leave for employees over 5 years service.
- Marketing leading parental leave policies.
- Flexible working culture.
- Company events – opportunities to meet colleagues you don’t see every day.
- Regular opportunities for industry recognised training and certifications.
- Opportunities to develop within a fast-growing tech business with ambitious growth and impact goals.
