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Job information Agile Delivery Lead (Platform) (FTC) from the Company Dunelm, this latest Agile Delivery Lead (Platform) (FTC) job vacancy is located in the city Hybrid work in Leicester LE located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Agile field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

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Overview

This is a 1-year fixed term contract.

This is a hybrid role working from home and our office in London & Leicester.

We're the UK's number one choice for homewares - we're ambitious about our brand, about being a good company, and about profitable growth.

With 13 million active customers in the last 12 months, we offer over 50,000 products, including our own Dorma and Fogarty brands, across 170+ stores. We operate the UK's largest Made to Measure factory for curtains and roman blinds. We're also developing products to help customers live more sustainably by introducing new materials and circular design and broadening our ‘The Edited Life' ranges.

Our renewed purpose is ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, for now and for generations to come.' And we have three ambitions: ‘ambitious about our brand' ambitious about being a good company', and ‘ambitious about profitable growth'. We're focused on growing as the number one choice for home, furniture and more, loved by our customers shopping more frequently in a fast-moving, post-pandemic environment.

About the area

The Agile Delivery Lead is key to evolving our ways of working and should be an experienced practitioner in agile techniques. We want to drive continuous improvement across our teams, our community, and our business. There will be opportunities to do this at all levels as we continue to evolve our business. We value your experience and your opinions. So, to help us to evolve you will need to form new and develop existing ideas from within the business as well as your own network from outside of the business.

This role is in the Platform and Operations centre of enablement working with the Platform team. The Platform team runs one of the busiest e-commerce sites in the UK and most of our platform runs on AWS but also use GCP and Azure. Because of this, a certain level of technical competence would be beneficial in this role. The Platform team work very closely with our Outcome teams, and our main goals are ensuring best practice across Tech, doing everything in code, automating as much as possible and building self-service capabilities wherever we can.

We recruit people from all types of backgrounds, who share our entrepreneurial, hands-on approach to work. We are committed to creating a full inclusive environment that is representative of our customers and locations. We recognise the value and importance in inclusion and diversity and welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of sex, age, race, religion, disability, neuro-diversity, gender or sexual identity, socio-economic background or education.

What you'll be doing

• Drive continuous improvement through the team using agile/lean methods, flow metrics and via coaching/mentoring and supporting where needed.
• Help the team build and deliver their roadmap items through continuous improvement, breaking work down into small, frequent releases.
• Collaborate with wider engineering teams on joint initiatives and work that spans across all teams and focus areas.
• Engage with different chapters across Dunelm; Delivery, Engineering, Quality, Product, Business Analysis .
• Contribute to the Delivery Chapter to help educate and influence change.
• Help manage the team's workflow via e.g. ServiceNow/Jira/Gitlab.
• Be a point of escalation for the team and manage external stakeholders.

What we'll look for in you

• Technical knowledge or an understanding of Cloud technologies within a large organisation.
• Leading conversations with people at all technical levels.
• Worked within a DevOps environment.
• Delivered at team level.
• Experienced in Agile / bi-modal methods of Delivery.
• Experience of using Scrum or Kanban.
• Active coaching of people and teams

Behaviours/Values

We value ‘leading' over ‘telling and so it is important you are a self-aware leader who can communicate at all levels of the business to influence and empower others. You will work closely with other Agile Delivery Leads, Principal Delivery Leads, Product chapter, Engineering chapter and Quality chapter to support, deliver and implement project and initiative outcomes.

You will be visible, lead by example and help create a community of empowerment and trust.

As an Agile Delivery lead you will be passionate about delivering high quality end to end outcomes with a focus on value for our customers. You will utilise your experience as a seasoned Delivery person to implement methods best suited to the complex business opportunities at all levels. You will have an approach of small incremental improvements over big bang.

We follow a DevOps culture, promote best practice across Tech and want to stay ahead of the competition so we value someone that is able to keep everyone honest and talking the same language. A certain level of technical knowledge regarding Engineering, Cloud and DevOps will be beneficial in this role.

From time to time, we work with 3rd parties. You will need to build up a lasting mutual relationship. You will be able to challenge and develop ways of working to ensure that Dunelm and the 3rd parties are operating in a harmonious partnership

Keywords : Leicester jobs

Closed Date : 2025-03-06