Purpose
Facilitates and coordinates Agile Release Trains (ARTs) to ensure that multiple teams within a program are aligned and delivering value efficiently. Manages dependencies, removes impediments, and oversees the planning and execution of Program Increments. Fosters collaboration across teams and drives continuous improvement in large scale Agile environments.
Accountabilities
- Facilitate Agile Planning and Events: Ensures readiness across scope, content and logistics to deliver value through facilitation of team of teams events.
- Support Planning Execution: Monitors planning execution, facilitates periodic synchronization events and supports cross team backlog refinement to align with business goals.
- Coach Cross Team Agile: Provides coaching to teams and Scrum Masters on cross team Agile principles, events and practices.
- Mitigate Risks: Identifies and tracks cross team dependencies and risks, removes blockers and ensures mitigation to support delivery of outcomes.
- Stakeholder Management: Facilitates stakeholder collaboration (business stakeholders, product teams, vendors), builds trust and drives stakeholder alignment.
- Champion Ways of Working: Champions Agile culture, creating a safe and trusting environment for team members to share ideas and take appropriate risks.
- Coordinate Interlock and Dependency Management: Drives partnership and synchronization across teams to facilitate release management across stakeholder groups.
- Optimize Flow: Drives relentless improvement and ensures value delivery by monitoring delivery status, ensuring technology use and data quality, addressing bottlenecks and serving as a point of escalation.
- Metrics and Reporting: Tracks and reports key metrics to provide representation at leadership and governance forums and to ensure continuous delivery improvement.
Qualifications
- Proven experience delivering complex technology outcomes in roles such as Project Manager, Programme Manager, Technical Delivery Manager or Change Manager.
- Solid track record of driving continuous process improvement.
- Experience delivering change within Agile frameworks such as SAFe, Kanban or Scrum.
- Experience managing technical teams or operating within a matrix management environment.
Preferred Skills
- AWS certifications and/or proven AWS delivery experience.
- Solid stakeholder management skills, including engagement with Director level and above stakeholders.
- Relevant RTE or delivery certifications such as PRINCE2 or PMP.
- Knowledge of risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology.
Location
Roles can be based in Glasgow or Knutsford.