Agile Delivery Lead

Description

At the heart of everything we do is our vision to change lives every day, and our mission to grow The National Lottery responsibly and champion its impact.

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across the USA (Michigan and Illinois) and Europe, including Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus and Italy.

While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, large scale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

We’ll talk a bit more about us further down the page, but for now – let’s talk about the role and who we’re looking for…

A bit about the role

Hands on delivery leadership of digital initiatives across strategic, functional and feature changes across our Web and App platforms, including interfaces with back-end systems.

As an Agile Delivery Lead you will work across one or more of our digital roadmap value streams. You will lead the delivery team, delivering using the right digital frameworks and ways of working.

You will own hands-on delivery for each Initiative assigned to the Squad, taking responsibility for end-to-end delivery from idea through to operate and success metrics.

You will be able to operate as a Servant Leader, Agile Coach, Scrum Master or Project Manager depending on the needs of the team and the specific Delivery challenge at the point in time.

You will contribute to the improvement of Delivery methodology within the Digital Foundry and key development partners, taking an active interest in developing Delivery tools and standards.

What you’ll be doing

HOW YOU WILL DO IT;
Mindset

You are “Delivery obsessed" constantly looking for new ways to innovate and deliver maximum value.

Nurture and inspire the team to take responsibility for their delivery process and the outcomes they deliver.

You thread agile values and principles throughout your thinking, processes, and actions.

You empower and encourage the team to focus on delivering value.

Foster an open and honest team culture that welcomes constructive feedback, experimentation and is rooted in psychological safety.

HOW YOU WILL DO IT:
Continuous Improvement

You will use delivery data to understand how the team are performing, identify improvements in ways of working, eliminate waste and reduce cycle time.

You’ll use delivery data to create delivery specific feedback loops across initiatives to drive more consistent and predictable delivery.

You’ll use a safe team culture to build effective feedback loops across both team deliverables as well as owning the delivery outcomes

You’ll encourage experimentation and create an environment where innovation can happen.

You’ll hold the team to account on their retro commitments.

HOW YOU WILL DO IT:
Delivery Toolset

Confident managing initiatives from Idea, through Discovery to Inception – working from uncertainty to bring focus, using Delivery expertise to create increasing clarity in terms of Size and Complexity.

Able to coach teams to breakdown, slice and structure work into the smallest increments, advising and coaching to create the most appropriate increments of value.

Uses demand and capacity planning to create initiative forecasts as part of program increment planning.

Confident at facilitating engaging and inclusive ceremonies.

You will be an excellent communicator, both verbally and in written form creating concise and focused delivery reports.

Managing stakeholders building great relationships internally and externally.

HOW YOU WILL DO IT:
Behaviors

You will look to own and resolve problems before they arise, actively bringing people together to collaborate and resolving conflict to achieve consensus.

You will work from a position of high trust and respect both from a team level and a Digital Foundry Leadership level, recognised for building, motivating and maintaining high performing teams, but also managing expectations.

You will work with other ADLs to promote and adopt Delivery…