Agile Delivery Manager

at  LSEG London Stock Exchange Group

Overview
We are looking for a positive, energetic team member to fill a recently vacated role to lead two agile, cross-functional software delivery teams. You’ll be part of the Data Solutions team delivering for a large strategic project in Capital Markets, with lots of opportunity to learn and grow!
As an Agile Delivery Manager, you will drive end-to-end delivery. You’ll collaborate with business, project and technical partners to build roadmaps and agree priorities. You’ll lead your agile teams and be integral in supporting your team members to overcome challenges. You’ll inspire the team to get better and better at agile delivery. And you’ll be supported by your colleagues in the Agile Delivery Management team.

Main Responsibilities

• Partner closely with project collaborators, business Product Managers, Technical Product Managers and Architects to build roadmaps and agree priorities.
• Develop deep understanding of the business and project’s needs, strategy and goals.
• Lead teams with minimum support, finding solutions to challenges, and raising problems to the appropriate level when necessary.
• Perform the Scrum Master role for the technical delivery team: facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups and retrospective ceremonies, and facilitate sprint Show and Tells.
• Assist with story creation and backlog management in Jira.
• Identify risks early, clarify impact and urgency against project breakthroughs, and finalise necessary actions.
• Provide visibility both internally and externally through regular reporting and communicate progress and risks at both the sprint and overall project level.
• Create and optimise an environment where the team can focus on delivering its objectives/goals.
• Monitor and improve team morale.
• Coach and mentor the agile team to build and mature agile delivery capability, both performance and quality.

Required Skills

• Strong communicator who can collaborate with cross-functional multi-cultural teams and convey technical topics as needed. High level of written and spoken English.
• Effective leader and a great teammate, with good interpersonal relationship skills.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to be flexible and handle multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
• Delivery-focused, proactive, analytical and a problem solver.
• Knowledge of Lean-Agile principles and methodologies and experience with Agile frameworks.
• Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Scrum Master and/or software engineering project manager.
• Experience with user story writing, backlog management and roadmap creation.
• Kindness, compassion, focus, drive, curiosity, and thirst for learning new things.
• Nice to have Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or similar, or equivalent experience.

Benefits
We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days’ holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
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• Partner closely with project collaborators, business Product Managers, Technical Product Managers and Architects to build roadmaps and agree priorities.
• Develop deep understanding of the business and project’s needs, strategy and goals.
• Lead teams with minimum support, finding solutions to challenges, and raising problems to the appropriate level when necessary.
• Perform the Scrum Master role for the technical delivery team: facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups and retrospective ceremonies, and facilitate sprint Show and Tells.
• Assist with story creation and backlog management in Jira.
• Identify risks early, clarify impact and urgency against project breakthroughs, and finalise necessary actions.
• Provide visibility both internally and externally through regular reporting and communicate progress and risks at both the sprint and overall project level.
• Create and optimise an environment where the team can focus on delivering its objectives/goals.
• Monitor and improve team morale.
• Coach and mentor the agile team to build and mature agile delivery capability, both performance and quality