Agile Delivery Lead

About Allica Bank

Allica is the UK's fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.

Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Role Description

As an Agile Delivery Lead, you will be responsible for driving the delivery of product by using agile methodology and practices across the tribe. You will be responsible for supporting the teams in their ways of working and helping them deliver better products for our internal and external customers. You will be a trusted sounding board for our product engineering function, and - alongside your delivery responsibilities - will play a key role in helping us to attract and retain the best Engineering and Product talent.

Principal Accountabilities

1. Accountable for ongoing product feature delivery across tribe.
2. Work together with Engineering Leads and Product Owners to improve the agile practices followed within the squad - e.g. Product Owners defining and building the Roadmap on a detailed basis for next sprints and on a mid-term basis to stakeholder awareness, and then translating into user stories that are ready for development with Front and Back End Engineers.
3. Tracking and reporting of metrics such as lead time, cycle time, deployment frequency, progress against OKRs.
4. Recommending and applying agile practices when needed.
5. Carry out regular Team Retrospectives & Health Checks.

Required Skills

1. Excellent knowledge and experience using agile principles including Kanban and Scrum.
2. A strong track record of improving delivery in a squad & tribe organisation structure.
3. Hands-on experience with Atlassian products.
4. Have previous experience of working in a fast-paced digitally native organisation/start-up.
5. Hands-on experience with CI/CD and DevOps for Distributed Systems.
6. An adaptable and pragmatic approach and a curious mind, continually asking 'Why?'
7. The ability to influence engineers, ideally coming from an engineering background.

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers. Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:

1. Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities.
2. Options for flexible working.
3. Regular social activities.
4. Pension contributions.
5. Discretionary bonus scheme.
6. Private health cover.
7. Life assurance.
8. Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave.

Don't tick every box?

Don't worry if you don't have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you'll be a good fit, we'd still love to hear from you!

Flexible working

We know the '9-to-5' isn't right for everyone. That's why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.

Diversity

We're a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.