Agile Delivery Manager

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Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

What's it all about?

We're looking for a passionate, high-agency Agile Delivery Analyst to join Currencycloud (Visa). Your mission is to chase down and remove all impediments for a scrum team so you can all concentrate on quickly and sustainably delivering value for our customers and business.

Your work will be framed by three questions:

1. Quality requirements: Do the engineers and stakeholders have all the documentation and knowledge needed to deliver value for our customers and business?

2. Agile & lean practices: How can we ensure a culture of continuous learning when it comes to agile and lean practices?

3. Delivery Management: What can be done to identify and remove all impediments faced by the scrum teams in delivering value for our customers?

What we expect of you, day to day:

Quality requirements:

• Ensuring requirements are at just the right level of detail to take into sprint, including functional & non-functional requirements.
• Plan and facilitate workshops for the team and stakeholders to emphasis a collaborative approach to requirements definition.
• Collaborating in the writing of epics and user stories

Delivery management:

• Doing what is needed to unblock the scrum teams during the sprint
• Reporting and managing operational delivery metrics
• Create and maintain a delivery roadmap that outlines the prioritised features and milestones to achieve team and business objectives
• Holding the team accountable for their delivery commitments and coaching continuous improvement
• Drive the execution of deliverables across multiple teams and functions, proactively identifying and mitigating risks and issues, dependencies, and impacts.
• Stakeholder management

Agile & lean practices:

• Leading/coordinating standard agile ceremonies for business-critical initiatives and complex assignments related to size or technical build
• Suggesting improvements to agile ways of working
• Coaching scrum teams on agile best practices

This is a remote position in the UK. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• 1 years + proven experience in an Agile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master or Project Management role, preferably in a software-first Fintech or start-up
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles, with real experience in creating working environments that adhere to them
• Proven track record of chasing down impediments to deliver value for customers and business
• Ability to communicate equally effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Preferably domain knowledge in Fintech - e.g. payments, FX, transaction banking or trading

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.