Job Summary
What will make you successful in this role?
- Maximized ‘flow’ time for engineer execution: Team has most time possible to focus on delivering impactful outputs and achieving their objectives.
- Meetings and ceremonies aligned to performance: All regular interactions, from sprint planning to retrospectives, are optimized to directly enhance team performance and drive outcomes. Zero wasted hours in team meetings.
- Clear alignment from missions to sprint tasks: Supporting Product Manager to in achieving seamless cascading from missions to OKRs, EPICS, initiatives down to daily work, eliminating duplication of discussions and delays.
- Elimination of persistent blockers: Proactively addresses and removes obstacles, ensuring that no blockers persist across sprints and the team can maintain momentum.
Qualification:
- Matric
- Relevant IT Qualification (IT Degree or Diploma) will be advantageous
- Scrum Master certification will be advantageous
Experience:
- 3+ years in a similar role with at least 1 year in team and/or company that builds technology
- Track record of high impact and investing in your own development
Knowledge & Skills:
These are different capabilities that Agile Delivery Leads pursue mastery in that help them to produce high quality outputs and increase their impact.
- Deep expertise in Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and
hybrid approaches.
- Mastery in creating and maintaining high-performing team rhythms, ensuring a
healthy balance of planning, execution, and reflection.
- Strong group facilitation skills to navigate discussions, promote collaboration, and
ensure all voices are heard.
- A focus on building a culture of belonging and collaboration within teams.
- Incredibly high agency
Thinking Preference
- You look for ways to do, instead of reasons not to. You are high agency, high ownership in everything you do. You know we own our future, only we can make it happen. If you find something that keeps us from our mission, you own it or work collaboratively with others until you find the right owner of it.
- Where some see impossible, you see a way. You have the strong conviction in our ability to innovate and bring financial services, and financial confidence to everyone across the continent. You turn obstacles into opportunity, chance into change.
- You move fast and fix things. You publish early and often, when you fail you learn and go again. You know that speed gives you the licence to fail, because you’re moving fast enough to correct course.
- You love creating more with less. Knowing that the biggest impact is born of the smallest acts, scale is built into your thinking from day 1. This is not about meeting the needs of thousands; it’s about exceeding the needs of millions. And working through small and mighty teams is way we’ll do it.
- You seek out and value different perspectives. Believing that when we change how we look at things, how things look for us also changes. Making tomorrow not just different, but better.
Personal Attributes:
- Action orientated - Contributing through others
- Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
- Optimises work processes - Contributing through others
- Decision quality - Contributing through others
- Builds effective teams - Contributing strategically
- Collaborates - Contributing strategically
Core Competencies:
- Being resilient - Contributing through others
- Collaborates - Contributing through others
- Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
- Customer focus - Contributing through others
- Drives results - Contributing through others