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Agile Team Lead
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Agile Team Lead
Kainos
Role Description As a Team Lead at Kainos, you will be responsible for leading an agile team to deliver high quality solutions that meet client and user needs. You will: - Create a positive and creative culture and a productive working environment. - Empower and support your team to perform well, learn, and grow in a manner consistent with Kainos company values. - Foresee and remove blockers and effectively manage risks and issues at a team level. - Work closely with other Agile Team Leads and stakeholders to ensure your team is working on the right things at the right time under the support and guidance of a Delivery Manager. - Take on broader management responsibilities beyond the agile team as required and actively contribute to the Management capability. Qualifications - Active SC clearance is mandatory. - Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role with UK defence sector organizations is mandatory. - Proven experience as a senior scrum master OR a combined role of a project manager, who is also a hands-on scrum master for UK defence sector organizations. - Minimum 3 years of demonstrable success delivering bespoke software projects from scratch, using agile methodologies (Kanban, Scrum, SAFe, etc.) for external customers. - Strong experience in customer-facing projects with UK defence sector organizations - syncs and reporting, presentations, board meetings, workshops, upscaling opportunities. - Strong managerial skills, both direct and indirect. - Strong commercial awareness - working with financial teams, understanding and basic reporting of costs, preferably working under a budget plan of £5M or more. - Excellent interpersonal skills. - Highly flexible (including a willingness to work away from home base). Requirements - Establish ways of working to enable an agile team to plan, forecast and deliver against a product backlog. - Act as a role model for collaborative behaviours, agile values and professionalism. - Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives; applying previous knowledge, experience, and industry best practices in agile delivery. - Put people first & develop others – manage, coach and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance. - Actively manage the performance of team members, including the stewardship of improvement plans where necessary. - Provide data, forecasts and progress updates to inform planning initiatives. - Facilitate workshops and discussions to understand and effectively capture requirements to achieve a joint understanding of needs. - Establish and maintain constructive and collaborative relationships with the client, other suppliers and third-party stakeholders. - Ensure stakeholders can access current and accurate data on the status of the team’s delivery and that technical quality standards are followed. - Support the Delivery Manager in ensuring projects deliver the agreed outcomes within budget. - Be highly flexible (including willingness to work away from home base). Benefits - Persuasive and effective communicator with strong negotiating skills. - Possess a solid understanding and strong practical experience of agile delivery in software development projects. - Evidence of leading continuous improvement initiatives. - Demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing members of your team and wider community. - Experience of facilitating workshops and discussions. - Ability to forge effective working relationships with stakeholders. - Considerable experience in a relevant technical environment. - Maintain effective and efficient delivery from your team during periods of remote working. Desirable - Good understanding of technology, digital services and trends. - Experience of working with user research, design and data analytics expertise. - Ability to demonstrate commercial awareness, particularly in client-supplier and multi-supplier environments, and an appreciation of project-level financials. - Understanding of a range of planning and reporting methods common to project delivery. - Scrum Master or similar Agile delivery certification.
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