Agile Delivery Lead

Our Agile Delivery Leads champion agile principles and best practices, continuously elevate team performance and enable AO to maintain a competitive edge through faster, quality-driven delivery. You'll be responsible for fostering a collaborative, agile environment across cross-functional teams, ensuring the timely and high-quality delivery of products. You'll lead agile ceremonies, manage communication with stakeholders, and drive process improvements to boost efficiency and productivity. Close collaboration with the Delivery community and other business areas will help maintain a well-prioritized backlog, while you resolve blockers and manage dependencies to keep projects on track. By staying updated on industry trends and agile best practices, you'll champion agile principles, guiding their implementation to enhance team performance and overall delivery quality.Here's What You Can Expect To Be Doing

• Support the Head of Agile Delivery in defining discreet scopes of work for each work package with a clear aim for the team to deliver on.
• Define requirements with the BA and team for new features and provide continuous feedback to Head of Agile Delivery and Senior Delivery Leads.
• Ensure high quality control of teams outputs through agreed quality goals and metrics
• Engage the team to manage priority of requests effectively and ensure they have everything they need to succeed.
• Manage multiple Azure DevOps boards for the team / and or projects.
• Creation and management of an Agile delivery plan for the teams which is reviewed regularly with the Senior Delivery Leads, project managers and Head of Agile Delivery which ladders to overarching project plans.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure expectations are understood and interpreted into the team
• Produce regular sprint progress reports to Tech stakeholders and colleagues
• Raise delivery risks and blockers accordingly to Head of Agile Delivery and PMs
• Support the delivery teams and delivery function across the business and engage in cross learning / collaboration
• Embrace Agile ways of working - use iterative methods and a flexible approach to enable rapid delivery and quality of delivery.
• Contribute to greater collaboration and alignment between projects/programmes across the Group, Mobile Number
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• Experience as an Agile Delivery Lead or similar role, successfully leading and delivering value through multi-disciplinary teams
• Make it happen outlook owning challenges and opportunities and finding solutions.
• Can explain and apply the fundamentals of Agile, DevOps and incremental delivery in different contexts.
• Experience in workflow management tools such as Azure DevOps (essential)
• Adaptable and pragmatic in decision making with the ability to navigate through challenges with an ongoing approach
• Confident in building collaborative relationships and communicating across all levels of the business both internally and externally
• Passionate about driving efficiency and continuous improvement of the Agile Delivery framework and community.
• Fosters a strong team culture and spirit, recognising and valuing different is good to drive delivery success.
  
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Our benefits are designed to cover the moments that matter to AOers. From health and wellness to giving back - you'll be rewarded inside and outside of work.
• Our Value Creation Plan; We've created a unique long term bonus plan for every AOer to share in our success, giving you the opportunity of an exceptional reward in return for exceptional business performance.
• Holidays; 25 days, plus bank holidays (increasing to 27 days after 2 years with us!)
• Pension; Contribute 5% of your annual salary and we'll do the same, giving you a little extra support for the future.
• Be a VIP at the AO Arena; we have loads of opportunities to win free tickets and pre-sale access!
• Health & wellbeing; discounted gym membership, an onsite spa and our Help @ Hand scheme giving you access to virtual GP's, Mental Health support and much more.
• Discounts; exclusive discounts across our product range.
• Family leave; Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave.
• Making a difference; 2 fully paid days a year to donate your time to any charity of your choice.
• On site perks; start your day with free on site parking, grabbing a complimentary breakfast and a coffee at our subsidised Starbucks!