Principal responsibilities

Responsibilities will include some or all the following:

• Ownership of SCRUM & LEAN ceremony and techniques across the team engineering teams e.g. sprint planning, daily scrums etc
• Support the Business Programme Manager (BPM), IT Project Managers and Product Owners to evolve resilience roadmap, creation of requirements / user stories and managing the backlog
• Investigate, classify and analyse operational risk associated with IT systems
• Translate business risk appetite/posture into functional and non-functional requirements/stories
• Create analysis of customer journeys, product functionality and business process
• Work closely with developers, testers, support staff and architects and a variety of end users to en-sure technical and operational compatibility and quality for agreed solutions
• Experience of analysing complex infrastructure upgrades affecting multiple countries, products, customers and applications, usually including comprehensive regression and non-functional testing
• Experience of working with a virtual team made up of stakeholders and IT colleagues from multiple disciplines, geographies and timezones

Qualifications

Experience

• 5+ years IT project management / SCRUM experience
• 5+ years business analysis experience within Financial Services, Software, Telecoms or Energy sectors
• Understanding of Agile metrics and reporting like Release burn downs, Sprint Burn downs, Velocity, User story mapping, Story point sizing and ranking according to value based priorities.
• Proven experience of working in large, complex programmes across multiple streams and geographies
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
• Understanding and implementation of key agile artefacts

Qualifications

• Degree educated
• Business Analysis (ISEB, Agile)
• Service Management (ITIL, DevOps)

Skills & Competencies

• Sprint Planning
• Daily Scrums
• Maintaining Sprint and Product backlog.
• Retrospectives and arranging show-n-tell demos.
• Release planning in coordination with other Agile teams
• Ensuring in-sprint testing is completed in a timely manner
• Complex Business and IT systems analysis
• Non-functional requirements gathering and analysis
• Operational risk assessment
• Technical document writing
• Business case development
• Strong team player, volunteer
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and fast learner
• Appetite and desire to initiate change and execute strategy
• Cultivates a collaborative and cooperative attitude
• An appreciation and respect for local cultures, and ability to both influence and work effectively with them
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written and spoken)
• Comfortable with both detailed reporting and executive communications
• Excellent organisational skills - able to efficiently manage multiple workstreams when working under pressure
• Microsoft Office skills essential – particularly Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint