Consultant - Manager, Agile Team Lead, Delivery, Defence & Security

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious programmes undertaken to keep our country safe?

We are proud of the impact we have with our Defence & Security clients, the strength of our relationships, and the variety of our skills and expertise that we bring to help them achieve their mission.

We're growing our teams across all of Consulting. If you are cleared to Developed Vetting (DV) level and want to grow your career in this sector, we are very keen to hear from you.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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As a practitioner you are responsible for bridging the gap between our customers' needs and technical solutions. Your primary responsibility is to guide and lead cross-functional agile development teams through the iterative software development lifecycle, from early lifecycle Discoveries through to Alpha, Beta and Live. Your knowledge and ability to apply common frameworks such as Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Kanban will be important as you navigate complex client delivery landscapes and drive toward an outcome.

In your role, you will have responsibility for deliverables and client stakeholder relationships and will be delivering solutions. You will often be working in multi-disciplinary teams across a range of industries, subject matters and locations. Your team will include software engineers, automation testers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and DevOps engineers.

Our projects vary greatly and your responsibility as a consultant will differ based on the focus of the client engagement and your skillset, but could include and may require you to:

• Facilitate team ceremonies/events for multiple scrum (or equivalent) teams including the daily stand-up, sprint planning, grooming, demos and retrospectives.
• Work with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep the backlog healthy and prepared for execution.
• Ensure consistency and adherence to company standards, processes and policies for all projects.
• Help determine and maintain overall team velocity and capacity with regards to the team's roadmap of projects and planning/prioritisation.
• Serve as Agile Framework champion and coach teams and stakeholders on value of agile/scrum across the organisations.
• Track and report on agile development team performance metrics. Drive continuous improvement and efficiency through consistent communication and coaching scrum values.
• Support the health and wellbeing of the Scrum Team and foster an environment that promotes high performance.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

All applicants must be willing and eligible to apply and obtain UK security clearance to SC or DV level, if not holding an existing clearance.

More information on the eligibility criteria to obtain clearance can be found here .

Candidates will have hands on experience with one or more of the below:

• Certified Scrum Master or Professional Scrum Master (CSM/PSM) or equivalent.
• Professional experience as a Scrum Master.
• Experience of managing multiple agile development teams.
• Able to work with multiple teams in a servant leader role, focused on the successful processes and outcomes related to those teams.
• Work with the Product Owner to ensure that the team's backlog is well groomed and actionable - defining acceptable states of issues.
• Prior experience of working with geographically distributed teams.

We are specifically looking for candidates with both technical and business focused skills, who can articulate the outcomes and value of their work, and have working experience in some of the following:

• Experience working closely with end users, user researchers and interaction designers.
• Experience with data science/analytics tools and understanding of analytics project needs.
• Experience leading teams through all stages of the product lifecycle, from Discovery through to Alpha, Beta and Live.
• Ability to work with stakeholders and product owners to represent team needs and issues.
• Excellent soft skills for influencing without authority and resolving conflicts.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and other dev tools to manage Agile processes.
• Ability to coach teams on becoming self-organizing and following Agile best practices.
• Metrics-driven focus on improving team velocity, quality, alignment with business goals.

Connect to your business - Consulting

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte's clients include many of the world's largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of."

-Dan, Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in Bristol, Cambridge, London, Manchester with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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