Lead Agile Delivery Lead

1 week ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Kin + Carta Full time

**About Kin + Carta**:
**The Lead Agile Delivery Lead role in a nutshell**:
This role comprises a mix of agile coaching, programme management and client management. Our ADL’s work with our expert in-house teams of developers, designers and testing engineers to deliver innovative, high-quality software. Our clients span some of the world’s biggest brands, including Cazoo, The Economist, Tesco, Ford, Unilever, Met Office and many more.

Alongside delivering client projects, you should have experience growing and developing an internal team, including managing, mentoring and hiring people, and building out and developing the agile delivery craft. You will have experience leading internal company level change or improvement initiatives, e.g. defining our remote working standards for the region pillar.

**What you can expect**:

- You'll lead by example, support the teams’ development and growth via management, coaching and hiring
- You’ll own your project’s delivery plan and visualise and radiate information for the team and client to ensure transparency
- You’ll own the team’s processes, ensuring agile approaches are pragmatically adopted and maintainedYou’ll coach teams and clients to enhance their agility and help them develop
- You’ll use varying tools and techniques to identify and drive improvements to quality and delivery
- You’ll use appropriate metrics to track and forecast delivery, manage expectations and highlight and improve inefficiencies in ways of working
- You’ll enable teams by identifying and removing risks and impediments
- You’ll build a positive, psychologically safe culture to ensure you get the most from the team

**The type of person we would love to meet**:

- Enthusiastic and a great motivator
- Emotionally intelligent and self aware
- Proactive and pragmatic
- Passionate about agile, change and challenging the status quo
- Servant leaders, who put the team first
- Excellent communicators, negotiators and influencers

**Nice to have**:

- GDS framework - Experience of the Government Digital Services framework would be a bonus

**Our benefits**:
Curious minds are nurtured at Kin + Carta through a wide range of benefits including:
£1,000 annual learning budget

Hybrid remote working policy

Global leadership programmes

Flexible working hours

Enhanced Christmas leave

Dog friendly offices

Subsidised private healthcare

Discounted gym membership

Whoever you are, wherever you’re from and whoever you love, you’ll find an open door at Kin + Carta. It’s yours to walk through if you’re passionate about building a better world for everyone, and you’re keen to be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that plays to people’s strengths and thrives on togetherness.


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