Delivery Manager

Delivery Manager

Hybrid

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Job description

A digital services company focused on software development, Application Support, data analytics and engineering.

We are Talent Pooling for a skilled Delivery Manager to join our team.

Job requirements

Main Responsibilities

• Ensure the implementation of an Agile working framework for targeted teams in complex technological environments.

• Manage and facilitate delivery teams to better collaborate, resolve conflicts and to work towards continuous improvement and value delivery.

• Oversee daily activities of delivery teams.

• Allocate resources and workloads according to delivery requirements

• Facilitate daily stand up or other scrum events.

• Assist in building well-structured agile practice.

• Plan, coordinate, organize, and track projects through implementation.

• Planning and facilitating Scrum ceremonies including Sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.

• Continuously learning and educating the development team and fellow Scrum Masters on Agile methodologies and practices.

• Coach and mentor the delivery teams to increase agile maturity across the company.

• Build positive and productive relationships with clients and stakeholders for business growth.

• Analyse and troubleshoot delivery issues.

• Reporting to clients as well as internal Head of Delivery.

Requirements

• 7 years' experience in a similar environment

• Excellent communications skills, written and verbal

• In-depth knowledge of software development processes, especially Agile software development

• In depth knowledge of iterative development and continuous delivery

• Experience working with and managing multiple delivery teams

• Experience delivering complex development projects

• Experience working in Scrum

• Managing and communicating directly with multiple clients or stakeholders

• Strong administration, attention to detail, ability to prioritise and manage time effectively

• Able to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Project Management certifications (PMBOK/ PRINCE2/ Agile Project Management/ Scrum Master)

• Knowledge of SAFe methodology and standards a bonus

• Strong Proficiency with the Atlassian tool stack, particularly Jira and Confluence