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Agile Lead

1 month ago

StratforduponAvon, United Kingdom Strategic Projects GBR Full time

We are seeking an Agile Lead to join our dynamic team and drive our organization towards higher levels of effectiveness. As an Agile Coach, you will play a crucial role in creating and enhancing agile processes across multiple teams and throughout the wider organization.

The Agile Lead champions and promotes Agile values and principles, helping create and grow productive, self-organizing teams. They work at squad level looking in on the team, helping to create a culture of continuous improvement. They orientate the team around delivering value outcomes by working in partnership with Product Managers and Engineering Team Leads. They use a raft of data and metrics to detect trends, identify patterns and solve problems.

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What you will do

  • Works with the Product Lead to ensure a value-driven backlog is prioritised and constantly evaluated/validated.
  • Works at the squad level across sub domains acting as an agile expert. 
  • Facilitates the identification, mitigation and resolution of risks and impediments that could impact the team’s success.
  • Drives value and optimises performance. 
  • Ensures all team agile ceremonies are taking place and facilitated to a high standard.
  • Supports the team in completing robust, realistic and achievable plans.
  • Encourages team to drive collectively towards sprint goals and targets.
  • Focuses on introducing and managing metrics that monitor the team’s performance, health and highlight areas of improvement.
  • Facilitates effective retrospectives to gain open and honest feedback that drives impactful continuous improvement.

Who you are 

  • Experienced in Agile Methodologies, a set of adaptive and collaborative approaches to project management and software development that prioritize flexibility, customer involvement, and iterative progress.
  • Demonstrable experience of Sprint Events/Ceremonies ways of working
  • Skilled in Stakeholder Management, organises, monitors and improves relationships with stakeholders.
  • Well versed in Backlogs & Iterative Development, prioritize features and user stories in the product backlog based on business value, user impact, and technical feasibility.
  • Experienced in facilitation, the ability to provide opportunities and resources to a group of people that enable them to make progress and succeed.
  • Problem Solving, the ability to identify challenges, analyse situations, and develop effective solutions to overcome difficulties or achieve desired outcomes.
  • Conflict Resolution, resolves conflicts across and identifies, remediates potential areas of risk. Investigating, documenting, and resolving conflicts and issues.
  • Continuous Improvement, the ability to systematically identify, analyse, and implement incremental enhancements and optimisations in processes, practices, and products, fostering a culture of ongoing learning and refinement within an organization.
  • Well-versed in Risk Management/Impediments, Identifies, evaluates and manages interference, obstacles and potential risks that have a negative impact on the sprints' velocity or overall performance.

What we offer

At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning. Working for us in the UK (For more detail around our other locations please contact me directly), you can expect to receive great benefits like:

  • Generous group bonus scheme
  • Hybrid working – 2 days in the office
  • Private medical insurance
  • Pension scheme – matched to 6%
  • Ability to buy and sell holiday
  • Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
  • Additional “It’s Your Game” day off to use at either Christmas or New Year
  • Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
  • Share save scheme
  • Paid subscription to LinkedIn Learning

And outside of this, you’ll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes. Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves. 

Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

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