Delivery Lead
Equal Experts|Posted 1 month ago
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Role description
Equal Experts’ agile practitioners combine technical excellence and business pragmatism to deliver simple bespoke software solutions to big business problems.
We offset delivery risk by trusting only talented, highly experienced people to employ relentless quality processes and a “zero tolerance” attitude to defects. We make heavy use of open source technology wherever possible, which dramatically lowers total cost of ownership for clients.
By leading by example and grounding everything we do in concrete software deliveries, we are able to bring our experience to bear, helping large organizations through their digital transformation.
This role is a Delivery Lead with extensive commercial experience in delivering enterprise solutions software development and design experience. The Delivery Lead will be working with an on-site client team, and will be expected to mentor and share their skills and knowledge across the existing client developers.
The Delivery Lead is responsible for the following:
Deliver software development projects using Agile development methodology
Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and demos
Ensure agile processes are followed and work with the teams to help them adopt the process that works best for the team
Ensure project teams are practising the core principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on Product & Sprint Backlogs.
Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practice
Support the development managers and project leads as necessary
Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal
Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution
Empower the teams to self-organize
Improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible
Adapt project plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout pilot projects to respond to emerging requirements and risks
Stakeholder management
Risk and issue identification and management
Dependency management
Communication to the team and outside of the team
Alignment with other customer projects and initiatives
Delivery lead stuff; live and coach the Equal Experts values, reporting progress to EE management and the client, understanding client expectations and delivering against them
Working with engagement managers to set up and correctly size the team
The following skills and experience are required:
Very strong technical background either as a Business Analyst, Software Developer, Quality Analyst or Project Manager
Involved with all aspects of software delivery and life cycle, from inception phase to UAT and delivery
Lead teams who delivered successful enterprise software development projects, most of which will have been working on bespoke built enterprise OO applications (ideally Java and C# )
Successfully applied Agile/XP/Scrum practices and introduced Agile techniques and have coached teams to apply them effectively, thanks to your Agile expertise and outstanding communication skills
Experienced in the role of Delivery Lead
Proficient in managing scope in an Agile project and facilitating the user story lifecycle in close collaboration with the customer/Product Owner, including breaking down complex requirements into independent user stories, capturing detailed acceptance criteria, building a release plan with user, managing the backlog, running showcases
Ideally experience of running distributed teams and distributed agile
Experience in software development projects.
Flexible in working practices
Exceptional listening, written and verbal communication skills including exceptional client facing/consulting skills
Will have your own opinions about how to build great software and be prepared to defend them
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About Equal Experts
We make simple solutions to big business problems.
Equal Experts is an award-winning agile consultancy, with offices in the UK, US, Portugal, India and Canada. We are currently expanding into South Africa.
We aspire to be ‘a company of grown-ups’ – somewhere that experienced, talented people can truly be themselves, and collaborate with like-minded colleagues to create innovative, simple solutions to challenging business problems.
Since making things simple is not easy, we only recruit experts – people that can demonstrate true excellence in their field. Then we trust them to do what they do best.
Why Work For Us?
Equal Experts aims to be a special place to work – somewhere that is genuinely a community, not simply a company.
Our purpose is to enable talented grown-ups to truly be themselves as they collaborate on the most interesting, challenging work of their careers.
A flat structure that emphasises values, respect, ownership and collaboration
Good software engineering practices and processes are a habit for us
Our remote-first model allows staff to work on projects around the world from almost everywhere in the country
A worldwide view gives us customers of all shapes-and-sizes across tech stacks and business sectors. This makes for a diverse and interesting work-life.
A different engagement model. We do not do “bums on a seat” - we deliver outcomes with customers out of empowered engineering teams with day-to-day engagement support from Equal Experts Engagement Managers and Delivery Leads.
Work-life balance and sustainable work overtime are important to us. They are key to staff health and delivering ongoing customer value.
Be part of a world-wide network of top-class IT people who have diverse and expert experience across tech stacks and industries. Once part of the network, you will have visibility of Equal Expert opportunities, whether active on an engagement or not.
In addition to training and conferences, employee access to the wider network provide many opportunities to hone and acquire skills.
Competitive salary and benefits package - we don't want money to be a talking point.
Depending on yearly company performance, a profit share allocation can be made to employees.
Your choice of machine for employees to work on - great people don’t work on substandard kit
A variety of contracting models allows you to structure your affairs as you prefer.
Five-star working conditions
We’re proud to have our working culture voted as one of the best in the UK in the 2017 'Glassdoor Top 20’ (but we're focused on creating a great culture wherever we work!).
The high levels of experience we look for means we can remove a lot of the layers and processes that can frustrate progress (and developers) in more traditional organisations. We trust our people to decide what will deliver the best results for our clients – and how to make it happen. Time after time, they’ve shown that great work comes from being allowed to get on with it.
This approach has helped us to be recognised as a particularly flexible, satisfying place to work; Glassdoor rates us as one of the UK’s best employers for work-life balance.
Work with the best, for the best
Our work is varied and covers the entire spectrum of modern IT – everything from digital transformation programmes for major government departments, to award-winning mobile apps for renowned brands like O2. The common thread is a need for faster, more flexible software development, and solutions that bring real benefits to our clients’ businesses.
You’ll be well looked after
Our business model relies on us working with the best quality people, and we offer remuneration in keeping with their expectations.
Learn what makes us tick on the official Equal Experts Blog
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