• Category: Information Technology
• Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom London, London, United Kingdom Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
• Clearance Type: Highest Level of Government Clearance
• Telecommute: No- Teleworking not available for this position
• Travel Required: Yes, 50 of the Time
• Positions Available: 1

Salary: 66,000 - 100,000

This role is an Agile, Release Train Engineer (RTE) role coordinating critical delivery with an important customer. Your role will be essential in the ever increasing need to protect our national security through development of software applications in an Agile environment to collect data, analyse it and allow our customers to make information aware decisions. An exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and to tackle some of the biggest national security challenges. We have a key position for a Lead Scrum Masters and Agile Coach that have relevant security clearances and those that can gain them.

Your Benefits:

• Flexible working schedules - we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have.
• Flexible Benefits Package – choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
• Employee Incentive Programme – exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel
• Career Development – opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities

Your Responsibilities:

• Proactively work with and support customers in an Agile advisory / coaching role and assurance capacity. Inspiring stakeholders, leadership and delivery teams to deliver upon their commitments that contribute towards the success of the mission.
• Actively facilitate, coach and support team-of-teams events (e.g. Program Increment Planning) and supporting individuals in key roles and activities such as road-map development, priority and facilitation to ensure that the relevant objectives are achieved.
• Identify and help customers to address systemic impediments to adoption of an effective Lean/Agile working culture e.g. Encourage collaboration between teams, drive continuous improvement via inspect and adapt, problem solving workshops, facilitation and coaching of scaled agile ceremonies like architectural & product owner Sync.
• Provide training to impart or reinforce knowledge of Lean-Agile concepts, tools and practices. Act as a coach and mentor in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets to less experienced Lean-Agile practitioners, Customers, Partners and Senior leaders.
• Manage and optimise the flow of value through the Release Train, supporting the management of risks and dependencies through escalating, tracking and removing impediments. You will support key stakeholders, primarily the Technical and Business Release Managers to ensure continuous deployment and release on demand.

Your Experience:

• Five plus years’ experience of servant-leadership in Agile teams and environments with an ability to engage and influence stakeholders, customers, and senior leadership roles.
• Extensive experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe, LeSS), preferably as an as an RTE or similar experience coordinating and leading large-scale business planning, prioritisation and objective setting events.
• Evidence of transforming and building high performing teams, placing Agile Values at the core to promote autonomy and empowerment; using your thorough knowledge of Agile practices and techniques to achieve successful outcome.
• Leading, organising and facilitating large scale events with an ability to communicate your vision and mission clearly ensuring alignment between numerous teams e.g. Product Increment Planning events.
• Experience of operating in challenging and fast paced environments.
• You will have held a leadership role, are experienced at managing people and can demonstrate how you have transformed a work environment and culture.

About you:

• You will be passionate about ‘what we do’ and the purpose of our industry.
• You will be a person with brilliant interpersonal skills and high levels of emotional intelligence that allows you to read a room and build rapport easily with stakeholders (Partners, contractors, customers) at all levels.
• You will be a person who is values driven, who provides and expects high levels of trust.
• You will have excellent negotiation skills; someone who works intimately with a customer and other key roles to negotiate expected outcomes based on capability and programme capacity.
• You will be an inspirational leader – someone who is able to grow and maintain team(s) confidence and morale when times are challenging.
• You will be a person who is comfortable with ambiguity and prepared to step up and lead as and when required for the benefit of the mission, customer and delivery teams.

Qualifications:

• Scrum Master certification e.g. PSM II / III, SASM
• Advanced certification in Agile-at-scale framework e.g. SAFe SPC, RTE, LeSS