Agile Delivery Lead

Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges.

We are seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to join IDS where you will be a change champion and be responsible to ensure the line management of business systems analysts and will coach and train matrix teams across informatics and IT and scientific groups to adopt agile principles and ways of working.

About the role:

You will be in charge to help programs and teams to deliver value efficiently and frequently to our customers through Agile ways of working for our organisation's needs. You will take a lead to identify and inform organisational strategic improvements and blockers and escalate them to resolve in a timely manner.

The Agile Change Delivery team is responsible for the successful delivery of large and complex programmes that support outsourced and bundled operational services to scientific programmes across, via multi-disciplinary, highly skilled teams, applying agile best practices that adapt to organisation needs. The team is a combination of Programme and project managers, Agile Coaching Services, Business Systems Analysts and Technical experts to help plan, collaborate and deliver.

You and your team will advocate and adopt a set of common values as depicted below:

• People first - We support and coach teams to empower and motivate their people by expressing their talent and inspirations, and to overcome their pain points.
• Continuous improvement - We strive for continuous improvement through understanding how teams work, learn from experience, challenge the status-quo and leverage good practices.
• Frugal innovation - With a resilient mindset, we always look for creative solutions, seeking simple and pragmatic ways of working to maximise value.

About you:

You will ensure appropriate agile methods are being adopted and delivery is consistently effective across all teams. You will identify gaps and finding resolutions and working with relevant stakeholders to provide solutions is key.  You will manage risks and issues in a timely manner and escalate issues as necessary while ensuring appropriate changes to the way we identify and deliver work.

Essential Technical skills:

• IT or Project/Program Management Experience in a multidisciplinary context
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycles
• Strong Agile mindset
• Coaching and mentoring
• Strong understanding of systems engineering in Agile in hybrid environments
• Successful track record of leading tangible improvements, or agile/scaled agile transformations
• Experience in backlog management and collaborative tools to support agile ways of working (JIRA, Confluence, GIT…)
• Knowledge of complex business process re-engineering, and requirements gathering approaches
• Clear understanding of technology and information management systems
• Demonstrates ability to capture requirements using various approaches and tools e.g. context diagrams/mind maps/stakeholder analysis/process mapping/scenario modelling/business case production/entity relationship diagrams 

Competencies and Behaviours:

• Excellent communication skills, self-driven, ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic-customer-focused environment
• Strategic thinking, pragmatic, and ability to see the ‘bigger picture’      
• Strong analytical, problem solving, planning skills, critical thinking, ambiguity tolerance, creativity and strong emotional intelligence.
• Comfortable in supporting multi disciplinary teams in complex environments
• Confident and capable to facilitate workshops alone and to present findings to clients/customers and stakeholders 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills
• Previous line management experience
• Ability to manage senior stakeholders and report into the leadership team.
• Highly develop communication skills with experience dealing with people at all levels to successfully engage with busy people and capture their input.
• Ability to understand process and technical challenges and break them down to actionable steps.
• High level of organisational skills with the ability to plan and schedule multiple projects and programmes effectively and deliver agreed activities consistently on time.
• Be a champion of equality, diversity and inclusion and work collaboratively with different stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members and other staff          
• Proven ability to influence, negotiate and communicate clearly. 
• Can demonstrate initiative, creativity, flexibility and a personal ethos of continuous improvement   
• Flexible and adaptable to meet changing needs

Application Process:  

Please apply with your CV and a Cover letter outlining how you meet the skills set out above. Please also indicate in your Covering letter what you like about your current role, why you want to apply to this role and the value you can bring.

Internal employees interested in applying for this role should apply through the internal Jobs Hub.

Other Information:

Salary range: Grade 1£57,023 - £67,500

Contract Type: Permanent Contract

Closing Date: 28th January 2024

Hybrid Working at Wellcome Sanger:

We recognise that there are many benefits to Hybrid Working; including an improved work-life balance, with more focused time, as well as the ability to organise working time so that collaborative opportunities and team discussions are facilitated on campus. The hybrid working arrangement will vary for different roles and teams. The nature of your role and the type of work you do will determine if a hybrid working arrangement is possible.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:

We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world. We have a supportive culture with the following staff networks, LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers, Disability and Race Equity to bring people together to share experiences, offer specific support and development opportunities and raise awareness. The networks are also a place for allies to provide support to others.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Sanger Institute. We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.

Our Benefits:

We are proud to deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme. The importance of good health and adopting a healthier lifestyle and the commitment to reduce work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.

Sanger Institute became a signatory of the International Technician Commitment initiative In March 2018.  The Technician Commitment aims to empower and ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research, across all disciplines.

Every year the Wellcome Sanger Institute supports the visits of dozens of overseas researchers from across the globe to the Genome campus to collaborate, share insights and to undertake ground-breaking scientific research. Our reliable in-house service provides expert advice and guidance to support current and prospective staff, and visitors at various points of their journey. We are able to provide guidance through your entire journey, from initial visa application through to extensions and applications of Indefinite Leave to Remain, the service is proud to support your personal applications and those of your dependants and family members. 

For more information about our immigration service visit: https://www.sanger.ac.uk/about/careers/global-mobility-and-immigration-service/