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Squad Lead

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Cardiff, United Kingdom Admiral Full time

**Closing date**

**21/03/2024**

It is a hugely exciting time to join the Data Tribe as we start to expand our Data and Analytics capabilities across the organisation. We have built and launched a leading cloud-based data platform for Admiral, and we have initiatives working across Pricing, Fraud, Telematics, Customer Contact, Claims, Digital and more to roll out these capabilities and add significant business value.

If you are driven by Data, have great ideas about the future of data in Admiral and want to help us become a data first company, this job may be for you.

We are looking for an analytical thinker who can research insights, develop our strategy, and design and develop the implementation of our data strategy. You will be a talented, enthusiastic individual with the ability to develop people and build skills, capabilities and knowledge across the squad.

The DnA tribe is made up of 15 engineering squads, across 4 areas; Customer, Claims and Corporate Service, Data Lakehouse, Data to Cloud and Pricing, Fraud & Proposition. We are looking for experienced Squad Leads to drive improvements within our Agile squads, support our Product Owners and ensure we can continue to deliver high quality solutions to the business at pace.

**About you**

We are looking for someone enthusiastic with strong communication skills and a desire to drive things forward. The successful applicant will be able to think creatively around a brief and willing to challenge as necessary. You should have experience leading a scrum team in regular, incremental deployments and be confident supporting a Product Owner and Development Team. You will be aware of processes/methodologies to increase velocity and be confident in analysing metrics and suggesting improvements to benefit the team.

We work in an Agile framework and are looking for someone who can work independently, has good teamworking skills, and can deliver to agreed timelines in a fast-paced and changing environment.

**Accountabilities**
- Accountable for maximising Squad’s ability to deliver Sprint goals and contribute to Tribe OKRs.
- Accountable for Squad level ceremonies integrity, consistency and effectiveness driving Squad value.
- Accountable to both the Squad as a whole and each individual Squad member performing as a servant leader.
- Accountable for supporting the Squad to live the following values: productivity, quality, transparency, and openness over internal politics in everything it does.
- Supporting effective culture, collaboration and creating the optimum environment for the team to succeed

**Responsibilities**
- Responsible for ensuring Squad level ceremonies like Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Sprint Review etc. are effective, positive & productive.
- Responsible for the effective and consistent operational performance for the scrum process as the Scrum Master.
- Responsible for Identifying, tracking, removing and escalating both blockers and impediments at Squad level to maintain both pace and flow of value.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance to Squad level activities.
- Responsible for owning and managing risks, issues and dependencies at Squad level.
- Responsible for managing and resolving intra-Squad dependencies by working with other Squad Leads within the Tribe.
- Responsible for both timely and effective tracking and reporting on Squad’s progress against Sprint goals to Tribe Leadership.
- Responsible for managing Squad capacity, utilisation and velocity. Actively engages with other Squad Leads in the Tribe and Tribe leadership to discuss resourcing and utilisation strategies.
- Responsible for providing Chapter Lead with relevant input for each Squad member supporting each Squad member’s development and performance needs.

**Key interactions**
- Coaches Squad team members in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets.
- Support Product Owner(s) with Squad backlog management.
- Collaborates and consults with other Squad Leads in the Tribe to manage resourcing and dependencies.
- Supports Tribe leadership in optimising value flow for the Tribe.
- Works with the Chapter Lead to assist in the development of capability.

**Knowledge and Experience Required**
- Experience operating within heavily regulated environments including external regulated consumer products and service offerings.
- Knowledge and experience in the use of tools such as: Jira, Confluence etc.
- Knowledge and experience of Agile development techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD - Acceptance Test Driven Development, TDD - Test-driven development, Continuous Testing, Pairing and Automated Testing.
- Knowledge and experience of using Kanban Boards including the production of effective and timely squad performance monitoring reporting.
- Knowledge and experience with operating with an embedded SDLC process underpinned by Lean Agile practices.
- Experience operating within heavily regulated environments including external regulated consumer p