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Agile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach - Hybrid working - Liverpool
Join a company that is going through a huge transformational change where you WILL make a difference.
My client is looking for an experienced Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master with a strong Agile coaching background to work as the IT Department’s Agile Delivery Manager who takes responsibility for the release of all in-house developed applications and acts as a Scrum Master to the department’s Scrum teams.
You will take on full ownership for the processes that make up the software development lifecycle and report on the performance of the SDLC to senior management. You will have a strong background in Agile coaching, supporting the department’s learning and development regarding the agile delivery of software projects.
Main Duties
The main duties of the Agile Delivery Manager are:
* Lead UI and UX design for software development projects.
* Implement and communicate standards for UI and UX to the wider team, ensuring that application designs are consistent with standards.
* Collaborate with clients and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality user experiences.
* Document and provide UI/UX designs to the software development team, agreeing on solutions.
* Collaborate with Business Analysts to ensure UI and UX designs are aligned to the solution.
* Lead acceptance testing on UI and UX designs, ensuring the designs meet the stakeholders’ requirements.
* Keep up to date with fast-changing UI and UX trends, presenting findings to leadership to initiate change where necessary.
* Evaluate existing applications, proposing improvements and optimisations where possible.
* Create wireframes and prototypes of new design ideas.
* Prepare and provide demonstrations of UI/UX design ideas.
* Ensure AHK’s business applications adhere to standards on typography and graphic design.
* Identify and troubleshoot UX problems, maintaining key attributes such as responsiveness.
Scrum Master/Delivery Manager Duties
* Facilitate and support all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
* Guide and coach the Scrum team and wider department on agile frameworks and best practices.
* Ensure Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
* Act as the point of contact for all communications regarding the Scrum team.
* Work closely with the Business Applications team to handle backlogs and new requests.
* Resolve cross-team conflicts and remove impediments to the Scrum team meeting targets.
* Report on the sprint performance to the senior management team.
* Negotiate urgent requests and challenge the team to adapt and deliver in difficult situations.
* Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration.
* Escalate key impediments to senior management where supporting teams are causing delays to the Scrum team meeting sprint goals.
Release/Delivery Duties
* Lead and plan software releases for all in-house applications.
* Communicate software updates to all key stakeholders throughout the release cycle.
* Lead and coordinate all phases of pre-release and go-live testing.
* Lead release retrospective meetings and track the progress of action points.
* Report on the performance of the release process to the senior management team.
* Remove impediments to the release process, ensuring any release blockers are actioned in a timely manner.
* Work closely with the development team to understand the challenges of branches and code merges.
* Research new software development and configuration management methodologies to suggest improvements to the release process.
* Lead the deployment of patch updates and ensure due process takes place prior to patch releases.
* Challenge the technical teams to automate and improve deployment, to continuously improve the speed and quality of deployment.
Skills, Qualifications and Competencies
Experience/Background
* 3+ years experience working in a role within Agile Delivery (e.g. Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Manager, Software Delivery Manager, Product Owner, etc.).
* Certified Scrum Master qualification is preferred.
* Exemplifies and promotes Agile values and principles.
* In-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
* Expert in the Scrum methodology, capable of explaining Scrum ceremonies in detail.
* Possesses a range of techniques to aid efficiency in Scrum.
* Demonstrable experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organisation and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
* Demonstrable experience dealing with difficult stakeholders and managing stakeholder expectations.
* Experience using tools such as Asana, Redmine, Git and Google Apps (desirable).
Qualifications/Education
* Educated to degree level or above.
Person Specification
* Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams to address challenges and drive solutions.
* Of high integrity and professionalism, leads by example.
* Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to solve challenges within the team with creative solutions.
* Ability to think outside the box, to bring fresh ideas to the table.
* Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
* Proactive and solution-oriented, with a strong inclination to address issues promptly and prevent delays.
* Curious, keen to discover unknowns and challenge the status quo.
If you are an experienced Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Master and you are looking to join a company that has been established for many years and has a global presence, then please apply today.
Ascent People is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy, and applicants from all ages and backgrounds will be considered.
Seniority Level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
* Full-time
Job Function
* Information Technology
Industries
* Software Development, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, and IT System Custom Software Development
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