We’re Hiring: Principal Agile Delivery Consultant

Qodea Manchester, England, United Kingdom Join Europe's leading, high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you'll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise and lead in their industries. We're driven by ideas and powered by our people.

We are looking for a Principal Agile Delivery Consultant/Team Lead to drive the success of the business by leading project teams focused on delivering high-quality solutions to our clients, and help to develop and grow our Agile Delivery capabilities as one of our Team Leads.

How You'll Shape Our Success

You will be responsible for leading project teams as well as providing thought leadership and expertise to support our sales department in expanding existing accounts through effective discovery and consultancy activities, providing advice and recommendations, based on knowledge and experience, to address client needs. You will ideally have a variety of roles in a variety of domains in your background such as Business Analyst, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile Lead. Familiarity with Cloud technology would be hugely beneficial along with experience in working on cross discipline projects - Data, AI/ML, Platform, App Dev, Security - in a consultancy environment. This is a customer facing role so strong presentation skills are important and there is a requirement for occasional travel to customer sites.

What You'll Do

• Business Analysis and Product Ownership: Comprehensive analysis of business operations, information systems, and technical infrastructures. Estimate, plan and implement the analysis activity for projects and engagements; including leading the engagement with stakeholders to understand their requirements and sometimes challenge their value. Effective requirement elicitation, management and traceability, functional and nonfunctional. Manage the backlog as ‘Product Owner' on behalf of the client, maximise value delivered, validate features and support test activity. Work closely with technical professionals to lead effective discovery to enable development of solutions that deliver value, understand business benefits and dependencies. Delivering agreed outcomes from projects using appropriate project management techniques, collaboration, leadership and governance.
• Agile Methodology and Scrum Framework: Tailor the Agile approach according to the project context; facilitate Agile events and assist others to understand the Agile approach and selected framework. Coach others (inside tailoring communications to the audience). Ability to work on multiple projects (client and internal) at the same time, managing own time appropriately, without supervision. Proactively manages utilisation of team and strives to achieve the best margin from client projects.

Requirements

What You'll Need to Succeed: Consistently delivers projects to a high standard, appropriately balancing speed, quality and time. Strong communication skills both written and verbal, to manage external stakeholders effectively. Proven leadership skills, with experience of leading both projects and teams. Lead and shape strategic analysis planning and execution, including Discovery activities and workshop facilitation. Experience in working on cross discipline projects with Data, AI, Platform and Security. Comfortable in navigating uncertainty and able to flex management style to suit the context / needs of key stakeholders.