Job Posting Title Agile Delivery Lead Justification Hyderabad/Bangalore squad build GEM-CT0484 Job Profile CW - Project Programme Delivery Job Description (Job advert content) Agile Delivery Manager – Cloud Services Role Profile Department Description Cloud Services Team Description Public Cloud Platform – Agile Delivery Lead Role Description Agile Delivery Leads know how to create and support high-performing cross-functional software delivery teams, ensuring flow from customer needs to operational services. The right candidate needs to demonstrate agile mindset and fully embrace agile principles and culture. They must know how to help teams in a large agile delivery organization. They need to value and support good quality engineering and be able to influence customers and stakeholders towards a more agile way of working. The role will involve some Product Management and classic Scrum Master activities for more than one team and will be expected to become comfortable in the relevant technical domains (e.g. AWS/GCP) The role holder will help to feed work into the delivery teams and participate in prioritization. They will support teams during delivery, removing blockers and helping to create transparency. They will balance agile delivery with some traditional programme management practices around project initiation, governance and control. They will embrace change but help towards predictability where required. This role is truly involved in real agile delivery and transformation. Interfaces are still required into more traditional processes and the role will also be expected to feedback and to help to transform those processes. Key Responsibilities Agile delivery management of several products / value streams Help to deliver outcomes through maturing agile delivery teams Balance a sense of urgency and visioning with a supportive and collaborative approach Work with teams to build up delivery backlogs including writing outcome based epics and stories when required. Perform the Scrum Master role for the technical delivery team: facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospective ceremonies, attend and facilitate sprint Show and Tells Effectively communicate with leadership, stakeholders and teams to understand their needs and create the right transparency (dynamic reporting) Develop a technical understanding in their areas Lead teams with minimum support, finding pathways through ambiguity, and escalating problems to the appropriate level when necessary. Manage backlog and forecast with an agile approach to prioritization and value delivery Help to maintain a product roadmap; in conjunction with a Product Owner create and manage user stories and product backlog Act as a catalyst for change and improvement Provide feedback, guidance, and coaching to members of the team. Determine and improve morale through team health checks and team norms while guiding the group toward meeting their objectives/goals. Key Behaviours Major Challenges (The challenges inherent in the role that require a continual test of the role holder’s abilities) Turning pressure into vision and a sense of urgency. Trusting team members even when they are not able to maintain the forecast. Understanding that teams have competing priorities and helping to feed into the prioritisation process. Being comfortable with a high-paced and changing environment, continuously adopting a pragmatic, flexible and responsive approach. Maintaining constructive and supportive working relationships with stakeholders and leadership and able to communicate the current reality around the delivery. Candidate Profile / Key Skills This is unlikely to be your first experience of agile delivery and you will have realised that agile delivery makes more sense in certain domains. You will need to be comfortable with agile principles, mindset and culture and know how to help teams in a large-scale agile delivery model deliver value through good quality engineering and in turn the delivery of your project goals. Essential Agile delivery and transformation Scrum and Large Scale Scrum or similar Strong collaboration and coaching skills Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, proven ability to work effectively with all organisational levels. Excellent at managing and influencing a wide network of stakeholders, including senior management. Able to use communication and collaboration tools for maximum effectiveness. Willing and able to challenge customers and stakeholders to better understand their needs. Expert knowledge of agile delivery and project management methodologies tools Excellent documentation skills; able to write effective epics/stories More than 2 years of delivery/project experience. Preferred Global experience – working successfully with teams in multiple locations simultaneously Experience and knowledge of large scale agile Experience of agile coaching and transformation Good understanding software engineering practices Experience on Public Cloud projects (CoE models, and other platforms enterprise services models) A learner, someone always looking for self-improvement. Agile certifications Experience with Scrum, Kanban and other Agile frameworks Exceptional knowledge of Lean-Agile principles and methodologies, with an ability to put them into practice Understanding of scaled frameworks such as LeSS and SAFe Leadership including: Guidance and support provided to the immediate agile team and wider team/stakeholders as required Coaching and mentoring of agile team to build and mature agile delivery capability. About London Stock Exchange Group London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) is a diversified international exchange Group that sits at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group can trace its history back to 1801. The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and the Pan-European equities and derivatives platform, Turquoise. Through its markets, the Group offers international business, and investors, unrivalled access to Europe's capital markets. Post trade and risk management services are a significant and growing part of the Group’s business operations. LSEG operates CCG, the Rome headquartered CCP and Monte Titoli, the significant European settlement business, selected as a first wave T2S participant. The Group is also a majority owner of leading multi-asset global CCP, LCH.Clearnet. The Group offers its customers an extensive range of real-time and reference data products, including Sedol, Unavista, Proquote and RNS, as well as access to over 200,000 international equity, bond and alternative asset class indices, through LSEG’s world leading index provider, FTSE. London Stock Exchange Group is also a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software. In addition to the Group’s own markets, over 30 other organisations and exchanges around the world use the Group’s MillenniumIT trading, surveillance and post trade technology. Headquartered in London, United Kingdom with significant operations in Italy, France, North America and Sri Lanka, the Group employs approximately 5000 people. Assignment Specific Information This section is to be completed by the hiring manager to provide additional information regarding the specific assignment. This should be the only section of the role profile that is customised by the hiring manager. 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. 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