Role purpose
The Agile Coach/Scrum Master will take overall responsibility for establishing and improving agile methodologies within the various cloud migration teams. The Agile Coach/Scrum Master will support 4 squads in the Cloud Migration Service organization. The primary focus is the creation of a next generation Business Intelligence and Analytics solution running in Google Cloud and the associated data pipelines for evolution of the solution. Ensuring proper collection of business requirements with customers and partners to enable functional and technical design of changes. We are replacing all the existing business intelligence solutions in each country into a single solution for the whole of Vodafone.
This role will coach and lead virtual teams in agile and lean practices, solve/unblock issues between teams and departments at the highest level, and lead the team through the full product lifecycle to successful delivery. The role will need to bridge/resolve challenges driven by the distributed location of the resources with specific attention on building trust between team and product owners, reducing misunderstanding from poor communication, enforcing the ability to ask the right questions, and assuring clarity on direction, priorities, and targets. Creation of recommendations and evidence of metrics/procedures aiming to increase the product development quality and team productivity will be part of the role responsibilities. The role will report into the Head of Resourcing and Delivery, based in London. On a day-to-day basis, the role will work alongside the IT Implementation Lead accountable for the overall cloud migration plan and will own team coordination activities for one or more countries during the analysis, migration, and implementation phase.
Once the integration of the country is live, the focus will shift to enhancing and evolving the solution based on future needs.
As a Specialist Agile Practitioner, you'll be in charge of the following responsibilities:
Train, measure, and challenge the delivery team through a path of continuous improvements.
Ensure positive and constructive communication between Product Owner and team members.
Ensure that everything described in the relevant and approved design is clear and delivered with the right level of quality.
Ensure products produced do not introduce regressions. Enforce the importance of high-quality delivery, assure coverage of positive and negative testing, building solid shippable products.
Monitor and report on the quality of all aspects of the team delivery accountability: design, documentation, implementation, testing, operational guidelines.
Contribute to enhance/optimize processes, quality, and performances.
What do you bring?
Agile certification is a must together with project management proven experience (CSM/PSM Certified).
Google Cloud Platform experience/certification is preferred.
Scaled Agile Certification (preferable).
Continuous Delivery, Integration, Testing proved experience will be preferred.
Understanding of cloud-based solutions preferably GCP (optional).
Experience with Jira and burn down, burn up charts.
Experience with system integration covering all key aspects of IT (Application Development, Data, Test, Deployment, Operations, Infrastructure, Connectivity).
Experience in dealing with an international, multi-cultural and distributed team with complex reporting lines (onshore, offshore, and local markets).
Ability to work in any country and to travel during the implementation phases.
Presentation and communication skills will be required.
What's in it for you?
LI-Hybrid (60% home - 40% office) and flexible hours.
20 additional days of home working per year from anywhere in Spain.
25 days holiday (and additionally 24th and 31st December), with the option to buy up to 10 extra days.
Meal vouchers (in addition to the annual fixed remuneration) and flexible remuneration plan.
Free health insurance, life insurance, and own medical services. Integral care health management program.
Career development and continuous learning, which includes AI platform and learning platforms like LinkedIn Learning.
Optional retirement pension plan.
3 paid days leave for charity projects.
App for the digital management of office needs.
Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining the best people by offering a flexible, motivating, and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed, and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business, and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates, and makes the most of people's individual differences. We are proud to offer equal opportunities regardless of race, nationality, cultural origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and religious or political beliefs.
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