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Tech Lead

The Portfolio Group
Posted 3 days ago, valid for a month
Location

Manchester, Greater Manchester M17 1DJ, England

Salary

£25,000 - £30,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The client operates cross-functional delivery teams that embrace agile principles to manage delivery scope and schedule expectations.
  • They are a successful commercial organization with a presence in five countries, headquartered in Manchester, and focus on user-centric product delivery.
  • The role requires active engagement with external dependencies and management of stakeholder expectations regarding product delivery.
  • Candidates should have experience in managing metrics, risks, and dependencies, with a focus on improving predictability and aligning with the Head of Technology Delivery and Product Owner.
  • The position offers a salary of up to £75,000 along with benefits including 25 days of holiday, a profit share scheme, and access to wellness programs.

Our client operates cross functional delivery teams strongly embracing agile principles of delivery to manage expectations on delivery scope and schedule. A successful commercial organisation with an international presence and digital penetration is 5 countries. Currently operating from our HQ in Manchester with the business units co-located with the delivery team working in a highly collaborative user centric product delivery fashion.

Accountability
  • Actively engage with and manage external dependencies, whether partners, suppliers or other businesses in the group in order to manage external dependencies and avoid impacts from external dependencies.
  • Set and manage expectations of a wide and demanding stakeholder set on product delivery including scope, schedule and return on investment.
  • Continual calibration of velocity and communication of impact on schedule in order to continually improve predictability.
  • Define standard metrics in the teams to support delivery management and influence their implementation
  • Drive relative sizing and calibration to establish uncalibrated schedule.
  • Ensure that epics are elaborated sufficiently to relatively size
  • Inspect and adapt regularly in order to tune metrics and stability.
  • Manage delivery metrics within the teams so that progress against plan can be stated
  • Understand drivers and current metrics to allow management of schedule expectations by either scope, capacity or schedule.
  • Work with the Head of Technology Delivery to agree metrics required and how they should be exposed
  • Work with the Product Owner to understand upcoming features and epics in sufficient time to assure elaboration.
  • Assumptions, Decisions, Risks, Issues, and Dependencies are actively managed to successful mitigation by managing the actively required.
  • Assumptions, Decisions, Risks, Issues, and Dependencies are articulated clearly, communicated to appropriate stakeholders and actively managed.

Salary and Benefits:

  • Up to £75,000
  • 25 days' holiday + plus bank holidays, with an increase to your holidays after 2 years' service.
  • Paid day off for your birthday.
  • Profit Share Scheme - earn a % of your salary as the company goals are met annually
  • Access to Employee Assistance Programme including access to counselling
  • Life Insurance and Health cash plan.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Holiday sell scheme.
  • Bright Exchange Perks, some fantastic discounts available.
  • Free gym on-site

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