Agile Delivery Manager
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17 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to instant payments through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with core and back-office banking applications.
Our Agile Delivery Managers are leaders who are responsible for guiding our agile squads to deliver value to clients through facilitating Agile ceremonies and practices as well as coaching Agile principles and values.
They lead their squads to deliver high quality solutions for our clientsby creating and managing delivery plans identifying and removingimpediments as well as driving continuous improvements throughstrong relationships with Engineers and key stakeholders.
Successful candidates will have proven experience working in an Agile Delivery Management or Scrum Master role and are passionate about empowering squads and fostering a collaborative and agile culture. Experience working in a smaller organisation/start-up is desirable.
- Strong knowledge and experience of working in and applying Scrum & Kanban Agile principles.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills and you can effectively manage stakeholder expectations and resolve conflicts.
- Strong experience of using agile planning and delivery tools for creating managing and tracking deliverables as well as the ability to interpret data and take action to course correct where necessary.
- Strong coaching and mentoring experience.
- Commercial awareness and sound understanding of project and business dynamics.
- A team player willing to adapt support and drive improvements to all parts of the agile delivery process.
- Ensure that all ceremonies and agile events are carried out effectively.
- Coach squads to self-organise and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Assist the squads to collaborate effectively resolve conflicts and overcome challenges and impediments.
- Lead the squads to effectively plan refine estimate and deliver functionality to clients whilst also driving continuous improvement and hygiene factors (i.e. Tech Debt).
- Raising and assisting the resolving Risks & Issues.
- Collaborating with the Product Owner and other stakeholders to ensure there is a well defined and deep enough backlog to maintain a healthy flow of work.
- Provide day to day leadership of a squad(s) having regular 121s and where necessary difficult conversations.
- Collaborate with our Support Team to understand client issues and feedback support resolution of issues and ensure lessons learnt are fed into ways of working.
- Drive continuous improvements and agile transformation across the whole of the Delivery function and thinking beyond their own squad(s).
- The camaraderie of working in a small company/Fintech environment.
- A passion and vision to create a journey to greater agile ways of working for squads and the wider organisation.
- Being supported to continually research learn and refine specialist knowledge.
- Making a positive impact on others around and striving for best practice across all areas of work
About You
About Us
Icon Solutions is a leading specialist provider of services and technology solutions that are simplifying banking transformation.
Icon is the past present and future of payments. With a proven record delivering mission-critical solutions for global institutions it is driving the next-generation of banking and payments architecture. Icon combines industry-leading domain experts services accelerator assets and technology that empower customers to solve problems fight complexity and embrace change.
Icon has applied its payments technical and integration expertise to create IPF: a low-code cloud-native open-source technology platform to accelerate payments transformation.
Icons clients include leading global banks such as BNP Paribas HSBC NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Kanban
- Project / Program Management
- Agile
- Waterfall
- Project Leadership
- Application Development
- Project Management
- Scrum
- Microsoft Project
- SDLC
- Project Implementation
About Company
A payments solutions company providing financial institutions with payments technology (IPF), payments subject matter expertise and services.
