Agile Delivery Lead

Job Purpose

Join our Technology Futures & Innovation team, where innovation is at the heart of everything we do. Bringing cutting-edge solutions to the products and services we offer has been key to our past success and will drive our future prosperity. Whether you have an interest in robotics, spatial computing, generative AI, or corporate ventures, we invite you to join us on our journey to establish a leading position by building new coalitions. If you are passionate about driving technological advancements and making a significant impact invite you to apply and help to shape the future of Emirates Group.

An Agile Delivery Lead performs the role of Scrum Master, developing and leading a high-performing, multi-discipline team, instilling in them a clear vision and a passionate drive. They play a leading role in fulfilling the vision, driving the implementation of technical products, and setting standards for teams to follow. An Agile Delivery Lead is responsible for the day-to-day planning, leading, organizing, and motivating of the scrum team(s) to achieve a high level of performance and quality in the delivery of outputs that provide exceptional value to business users.

In This Role, You Will

• Schedule user stories from the technical product backlog to the Sprint plan, focusing on regular and timely delivery of business value initiatives, and facilitating agile ceremonies, e.g. product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies removing impediments/blockers to ensure optimal flow of value.
• Guide the team on the use of Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight the business and how to elicit the most out of self-organization. Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team. Promotes empowerment of the team, ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in the initiatives and is making a meaningful contribution, and encourages a sustainable pace adhering to the agreed quality management plan with the team.
• Work collaboratively with the Technical Product Owners to refine, clarify, and maintain the product backlog, together with the TPO schedules and commit stories into sprints and visualize progress.
• Support the Technical Product Owners in managing business expectations and transparency in both product backlog and schedule for all initiatives.
• Define and manage a well-defined process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Delivery Management and effectively manage conflict resolution.
• Ensure the Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done (DOD) is being followed, and make sure that each team member is fully engaged in the stories and making a meaningful contribution. Encourage a sustainable pace adhering to the agreed quality management plan with the team. Maintains an agile project management tool (ScrumDesk, JIRA, etc.).
  

Qualifications & Experience

To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent), Degree in Computer Science.
• 5+ Years of experience or similar Certified Scrum Master with 3+ years of practical application of the Scrum Management discipline PMI ACP (transition of existing SDCs are exempt)
• Proven leadership and project delivery experience in a matrix organization with global teams for a large organization.
• Experience in agile delivery within the context of a small/medium technology change program.
• Well-versed in the use of tools of software delivery e.g. MS OFFICE suite, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to effectively communicate specialist information in an understandable format to all stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, focusing on core scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.