Consultant - Agile Development Team Lead (Edv)

Agile Development Team Lead

Location: Bristol

Clearance Type: Enhanced DV (UK*C). These roles do not support MoD/UKSV DV.

Salary: Up to £90,000 (SFIA Dependant)

Connect to your opportunity

You will be part of a team that helps other teams improve their ways of working towards better value sooner, safer, happier by adopting various agile coaching, facilitation and delivery stances. Other responsibilities will include:

• Coaching agile teams to clarify their desired outcomes, selected experiments and incremental improvements
• Facilitation of team self-organisation and delivery events as invited
• Teaching either in formal training sessions or less formal discussions
• Coaching to optimise the flow of value and helping resolve impediments
• Bringing back learnings as to how teams are innovating and how that can be shared back with other teams and other clients
• Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

Connect to your skills and professional experience

All applicants must hold UK security clearance to Enhanced Developed Vetting level (UK*C).

The role also requires:

• Experience working within mature and immature agile teams as a team member or in a lead / facilitating role
• Experience helping teams to incrementally evolve their ways of working by empowering them to select & adopt new practices for successful outcomes
• Experience of stabilising and optimising the flow of work using visualisation, empiricism and coaching techniques
• Understanding of desirable culture in a cross-functional team and also the dysfunctions of a team that can impede success
• Agile methodologies and certifications, specifically #Kanban, #Disciplined Agile and/or #ICAgile
• Knowledge of other methods (e.g. Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, XP) is of interest but not required
• Working with teams outside of IT to using #agile coaching & delivery techniques
• Shaping experiments and larger changes for clients to implement as part of a wider transformation journey

This is a business critical position and we are looking to arrange interviews as soon as possible. To be considered, please apply directly or send an email to lewis.thompson@searchability.com