• Work with the product owners to ensure that work is de-constructed and translated into development activities across teams.

• Review requirements from a testability perspective and formulate the non-functional testing strategy.

• Accountable for the creation and management of epics, backlog management and prioritisation across teams and for conformance to the IT operating model with regards to Agile and Technology Practices.

• Accountable for ensuring that all activities performed by Teams adhere to the relevant Service Management Standards, and high data quality exists in Service Management systems of record.

• Work with product owners & team to ensure that the lead time to deploy changes is continuously improving and benchmarks appropriately across other functions within the DevOps team.

• Work with product owners & team to ensure that high levels of automation are implemented and maintained across the teams.

• Work with product owners & team to ensure that service levels are maintained and improved.

• University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a relevant discipline.

• 5+ years of engineering role (both frontend (i.e. React) and backend (Java, spring boot) tech skills) and 2+ years of relevant product/project management.

• Knowledge about scrum values & Agile ceremonies.

• Good prioritisation, negotiation and communication skills.

• Experience with Agile frameworks and methods, like SAFe.

• Proficient in agile project management tools: jira and confluence.

• Experience being an agile lead.

Nice to have:

• Strong work ethic and team player experienced working with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.

• Real passion for elegance and efficiency in software engineering and always strive for continuous improvements via automated processes.

• Strong analytical, design and problem-solving skills.

• Good track record of delivering change on architecting, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade technical solutions, preferably in a financial institution.