Senior Agile Delivery Lead

REQ ID: 102836
JOB TITLE: Senior Agile Delivery Lead
SALARY: Competitive
LOCATION: Manchester

Jaguar Land Rover is harnessing technology to make driving smarter, safer and cleaner. You can help create a world in which responsible, sustainable vehicles revolutionise the driving experience for generations. Our vision is to leverage the incredible potential of technology to build vehicles that not only offer a premium, all-encompassing digital experience, but that also make our customers lives better.

The Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced Agile Delivery Lead to support our teams in delivering great work throughout our engagements.

You'll play a key role in developing great team dynamics, bringing agile and Agile to life, uncovering and solving challenges, and bringing our principles for quality, engineering and delivery together to realise great delivery outcomes.

We welcome a variety of experiences in our applicants, but most of all we value the brilliant basics.

We work in the open, seek challenges and solve problems together, so teamwork and soft skills are something we'll value highly in building our new teams.

Developing talented people is vital to our strategy. We welcome lifelong learners to join our great talent in a flexible, fun, meaningful environment.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

• Deliver software technology using appropriate agile methodologies, learning & iterating frequently
• Ensure the teams have everything they need to succeed in delivering work and their processes are optimal and collaborative
• Have end to end delivery involvement, supporting, facilitating and driving the right process, behaviours and outcomes at each stage of the lifecycle
• Help our teams and their stakeholders develop and maintain viable product roadmaps and backlogs, ensuring they are deliverable at the right time
• Play a key role in team culture and spirit
• Do the 'Day to day' really well, including facilitating and coordinating multiple scrum teams
• Develop appropriate Metrics, team data and lean governance alongside key project stakeholders

What you'll need

Essential:

• Genuine advocacy for modern, high-quality delivery and all things agile
• Agile delivery through multi-disciplinary teams in a DevOps environment
• Can explain and apply the fundamentals of Agile, DevOps, iterative software development and incremental delivery to the new, the initiated and the experienced
• Comfortable challenging existing thinking in a positive way
• An adaptable and pragmatic approach and a curious mind, continually asking 'why?'
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence and Lucid or Miro

SO WHY US?

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you'll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.

This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At Jaguar Land Rover, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy for applications before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. We strongly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.

Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.