Agile Delivery Lead

2 weeks ago

Weybridge, United Kingdom Clinigen Full time

Clinigen is a rapidly growing global specialty pharmaceutical and services company with a unique combination of businesses. Our divisions operate in a complex global regulatory environment and ensure that vital medicines are delivered securely on time and wherever they are needed in the world.

We are currently 1,100 people headquartered in the UK with global offices in the US, EU, JAPAC and South Africa. Clinigen has grown rapidly and is positioned well for an exciting future of continued expansion.

We are currently seeking a dynamic, collaborative and driven Agile Delivery Lead to oversee agile development projects as well as leading the agile delivery function in line with strategic direction. The Agile Delivery Lead oversees projects that follow agile methodology governing delivery from requirements inception all the way into and including production being a buffer between the business and the agile delivery teams.

Alongside this the Agile Delivery Lead will play a key part in constructing an Agile Delivery framework fit for the business as well as being a key leader in the transition to this framework.

Please note candidates must be within commuting distance of our Weybridge office as you will operate in a hybrid setting, 2 days onsite - 3 days WFH.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Supporting and assisting the Product Owners, especially with respect to refinement and maintaining the product backlog.
  • Ensure the appropriate level of resource and expertise is in place and that this is structured in the most effective way to deliver the strategy.
  • Advocate for Agile principles and practices, leading teams in the adoption of Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe, and ensuring consistent implementation across projects
  • Guiding the teams and organisation on how to use Agile practices and values
  • Guiding the teams on how to get the most out of self-organisation
  • Removing impediments or guiding the teams to remove impediments by finding the right solution or person to remove the impediment
  • Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
  • Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
  • Work with Change Management to schedule release of your teams work
  • Create rollout plans for work delivered across production & non-production environments
  • Define and track relevant project metrics, providing regular and accurate updates on project status, risks, and performance to stakeholders and leadership
  • Input into Programme level updates feeding into SLT
  • Managing 3rd parties that form part of agile delivery team
  • Work with Tech team to manage and prioritise technical debt & NFR’s
  • Track teams delivery quality accounting for bug rates and issues found in E2E environments
  • Understand path to production and work to ensure changes are released into production
  • Ensuring the team follow Engineering best practices such as CI/CD, TDD, Code Quality, Unit Testing…
  • Manage project budgets, monitor expenditures, and ensure cost-effectiveness throughout the project lifecycle
  • Constructing an Agile Delivery framework & leading transition to it
  • Engage and collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, manage expectations, and ensure alignment between project goals and business objectives
  • Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to define project scope, prioritize features, and create actionable plans that align with business objectives

Requirements

  • Must have significant relevant experience in IT Delivery Roles, including experience in 24/7 high-availability multi-site enterprise environment
  • Experience in delivering projects E2E from requirements inception through to production
  • Experience in Projection Management practices that lend themselves to Agile WoW
  • Experience in managing production releases, working with partner and digging into runbooks as and when needed
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft stacks
  • Knowledge and experience of working within a DevOps / Continuous Delivery framework through the Software Development Lifecycle
  • Previous experience of implementing and rolling out Agile within an organisation
  • Experience of onboarding suppliers/partners/business areas into the scrum/agile methodology
  • Experience of managing external and internal parties as combined scrum teams
  • Experience playing the Scrum Master role for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory.
  • Excellent communication and mentoring skills
  • Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: numerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)
  • Experience of digital platform delivery through agile ways of working
  • Experience of using Jira/Confluence
  • Reporting delivery progress up to SLT
  • Willing and able to travel in the UK and occasionally internationally as required.

Desirable:

  • Working knowledge of Oracle stacks
  • Experience of QA and testing methods
  • Scrum Master certification (CSP, PSM II)
  • Knowledge of other Agile approaches: XP, Kanban, FDD, etc…
  • Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
  • Experience of working with large scale ERP technology integration
  • Experience as a Development Manager
  • Technical background in Web/Cloud Development
  • Experience as a Project Manager or similar role

Benefits

  • 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Discretionary Bonus
  • Pension contributions & Life Assurance scheme
  • Flexible Benefits Platform with £25/month Company contribution
  • Annual salary review
  • Independent financial advice service
  • Enhanced Employee Assistance Programme
  • Shopping discounts with retailers
  • Long service awards
  • Recognition scheme & employee of the year awards

Interested? We would love to hear from you, please apply today for consideration.

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