Agile Delivery Lead

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 acrossthe USA (Michigan and Illinois) and Europe including

Czech Republic Austria Greece Cyprusand Italy.

While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes at Allwynwe 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.

Well talk a bit more about us further down the page but for now lets talk about the role and who were looking for

A bit about the role

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

• As an Agile Delivery Leadyou will workacrossone or more of our digital roadmapvalue streams. You will lead the delivery team delivering using theright digital frameworks and ways ofworking.

• You will ownhands-on delivery for each Initiative assigned to the Squad taking responsibility for end-to-end delivery fromideathrough tooperateandsuccess metrics.

• You will be able tooperateas a Servant Leader Agile Coach Scrum Masteror 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 Deliverymethodologywithinthe Digital Foundry and key development partners taking an active interest in developing Delivery tools and standards.

What youll 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.
• Youll use delivery data to create delivery specific feedback loops across initiatives to drive more consistent and predictable delivery.
• Youlluse a safe team culture to build effective feedback loops across bothteamdeliverables as well as owningthe delivery outcomes
• Youll encourage experimentation and create an environment where innovation can happen.
• Youll 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 ateamlevel and aDigital Foundry Leadershiplevelrecognisedfor  buildingmotivatingandmaintaininghigh performing teams but also managing expectations.
• You will work with other ADLs to promote and adopt Delivery consistency.
• You will use your skills to motivate and inspire others to want to take part in improving Delivery acrossthe Digital Foundry.

What experience were looking for

Key Measures of Success

• Team utilization Resource allocation and cost control (internal and delivery partner)
• Plan and business case adherence - Delivery to Plan and Investment Case
• Velocity Delivery throughput deployment frequency cycle time
• Software Quality Change failure rate code review cycles and intervention Mean time to repair (MTTR) Customer satisfaction and stakeholder feedback inclusion.

• People Health Work distribution and engagement scores.

Key

Skills and Experience:

• You will be experienced and have a successful track record of delivering complex technology projects and programmes through multi-disciplinary teams using agile lean software and design-thinking development methodologies.
• Must have the ability to deliver software solutions to time and quality…