Agile Delivery Lead

Job Purpose: About The Role The Agile Delivery Lead - dnata performs the role
of Scrum Master, developing and leading a high-performing, multi-discipline
team, instilling in them a clear vision and a passionate drive. The Agile
Delivery Lead is responsible for the day to day planning, leading, organising
and motivation of the scrum team(s) to achieve a high level of performance and
quality in the delivery of outputs that provide exceptional value to business
users. What You'll Be Expected To Do: * Schedule user stories from the
technical product backlog to the Sprint plan, focusing on regular and timely
delivery of business value initiatives; facilitates agile ceremonies, e.g.
product backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews,
retrospectives * Manage risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies removing
impediments / blockers to ensure optimial flow of value. * Guide the team on
the use of Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight the business and how to
elicit the most out of self-organisation. Assess the Scrum Maturity of the
team and coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is
sustainable and comfortable for the team. Promotes empowerment of the team,
ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in the initiatives and is
making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace adhering to
the agreed quality management plan with the team. * Work collaboratively with
the Technical Product Owners to refine, clarify and maintain the product
backlog; together with the TPO schedules and commits stories into sprints and
visualises progress. * Support the Technical Product Owners in managing
business expectations and transparency in both product backlog and schedule
for all initiatives. * Define and manage a well-defined process and champion
ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile
Delivery Management and effectively manage conflict resolution. * Ensure the
Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done (DOD) is being followed; make sure
that each team member is fully engaged in the stories and making a meaningful
contribution. Encourage a sustainable pace adhering to the agreed quality
management plan with the team. Maintains an agile project management tool
(ScrumDesk, JIRA, etc.).
Qualifications & Experience: Qualifications & Skills You'll Need To Have: *
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar, and ‎5+ years' experience in
Information Technology * Certified Scrum Master with ‎3+ years of practical
application of the Scrum Management discipline PMI ACP (transition of existing
SDCs are exempt) * Proven leadership and project delivery experience in a
matrix organisation with global teams for a large organisation. * Experience
in agile delivery within the context of a small / medium technology change
programme. * Well-versed in the use of tools of software delivery e.g. MS
OFFICE suite, JIRA, Confluence etc. * Ability to effectively communicate
specialist information in an understandable format to all stakeholders. *
Excellent communication skills, focusing on core scrum values of openness,
honesty and respect. Leadership Role : Yes How You'll Work: * We're full time
back in office here in Dubai at Emirates Group and dnata
Salary & Benefits: Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary
and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on
flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information
about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website
www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what's it like to live and
work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle
section.