Product Delivery Director - PAQPDDJH

Responsibilities

• Working with our agile teams to ensure the tooling, processes and ways of working are in line with our internal policies and that we are continually improving the way we are operating. This entails administering the tooling used by each of the teams, for example dashboards and associated monitoring.
• Promoting and being an evangelist for agile delivery practices, in addition to working in a product operating model, are an essential part of the role.
• Managing and leading a team of Agile Delivery Leads, providing coaching and mentorship, enabling their development.
• Acting as an individual contributor as an Agile Delivery Lead where appropriate.
• Managing the delivery process followed by each of our agile teams, including applying the right methodology to the right circumstance. In teams using scrum‑style agile, this includes facilitating scrum ceremonies and coaching the team towards adoption of best practices.
• Managing dependencies between agile teams and other functions in technology such as Infrastructure and Cyber to optimise delivery, working with peers within Product Delivery where appropriate to ensure alignment.
• Partnering with colleagues in Project Management, to translate items in the delivery plan and other associated metrics into date‑based milestones where appropriate, ensuring progress and any associated risks, issues and dependencies are communicated accordingly.
• Scheduling sprints and ensuring the agile team keep to the planned sprint cadence, building confidence and predictability, leading to better forecasting.

• Coordinating releases, interfacing with the Project Manager to ensure alignment.
• Ensure the agile team has a robust mechanism for engagement with other stakeholders, including Commercial, Cyber and Operations teams, helping set up and design these processes where required.
• Facilitating the carrying out of Pen tests, and other Cyber deliverables, ensuring the management of these deliverables is factored into to regular processes and planning.
• Ensure the agile team has appropriate mechanisms in place to visualise and forecast how work is completed, including setting Jira boards and implementing dependency tracking. Work with Product Operations to define meaningful metrics to aid successful delivery of products, encouraging the agile teams to inspect the data available and adapt accordingly. Ensure agile teams are set up with appropriate tooling to track and manage work, looking for opportunities to reduce administrative overhead and encouraging teams to be more self‑sufficient.
  
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• Co‑ordinate cross‑team working and ensure alignment with broader organisational goals.

• Tactful and politically savvy in all matters relating to their role.
• Leads by example and operates in a transparent, open and inclusive manner.
• Able to support and unblock those both within and outside of their team.
• Trusted adviser to own manager, and others in the senior management team. Able to pre‑empt potential conflicts, in addition to being able to manage and mediate existing conflicts.

• Motivates and unites the team behind a common cause.
• Steadily able to manage team members and other people managers across all stages of team development, including the ability to deal with underperformance and conflict within the team.
• Designs and owns processes and procedures that allow for efficient and effective execution of work with an appropriate level of management oversight.
• Software development lifecycle in an Agile environment
• Behaviour Driven Development
• Microsoft office suite
• Jira, including Jira administration
• Confluence

• The business knowledge and experience required includes but is not limited to:
• Real‑life project management experience and a proven record of delivery, including experience of customer projects.
• Experience of Agile practices, including Scrum.
• Experience of mutual funds and the broader financial services industry is preferred.
• Agile project management, particularly where agile delivery processes are used within the context of a broader project…