Delivery Lead: Data Management at Sanlam Group

Role Description

As the Delivery Lead you will join our Project/ Delivery Management team and focus on enabling the Agile delivery method within our Scalable Warehouse Centre of Excellence team along with other Agile duties.

The Delivery Lead will be considered a subject-matter expert, have excellent logic and problem-solving skills and a drive to make a difference. The Delivery Lead will be responsible for enforcing the rules of Scrum and/or Kanban, removing impediments from their team while promoting self-management and constantly improving our standards of work. The Delivery Lead will also be responsible to mentor data engineers, BI engineers, data analysts and testers. The incumbent will be required to engage and align with the various stakeholders with SBI to create a synergy from within.

What will you do?

Output/Core Tasks

• Ensure systems and processes across teams are operated efficiently and effectively and deliver against business needs
• Establishes and manages team cadence throughout delivery lifecycle, facilitation of all scrum ceremonies
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Stakeholder management and playback, including product owners, executive sponsors and other external teams
• Work closely with leadership to define product and establish product backlog. Owns delivery roadmap.
• Support execution team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies, managing risks and issues.
• Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration Hub stakeholders
• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders)
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Works with Squad, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards in accordance with SBI and SGT processes and standards (i.e., architecture and security standards, project management and quality assurance methodologies etc.) at the end of each sprint
• Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams in Operations, as well as important BI initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.
• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it
• Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur
• Help teams implement changes effectively
• Ensure quality and cost-effective software development and maintenance of key BI Automation tools (Wherescape)
• Assist with onboarding resources
• Lead by example and define, where necessary, the necessary support model (People and process)

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualifications

Role Requirements:

• An Appropriate IT Qualification (Diploma/Degree) will be a strong recommendation.
• Knowledge of technology (existing & emerging) & its application in the insurance industry
• Strong delivery and project management knowledge
• Financial acumen in budgeting and management of IT costs to business unit/s
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities
• Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Knowledge of an agile framework or method (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), or understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices
• SAFe Certification and/or similar will be advantageous
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

Knowledge And Experience

• Tertiary Qualification in Computer Science, Software Development or Information Systems, or other related fields
• 4 years of product or project development experience, or 3 years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Knowledge of AGILE project management is desired
• Experience in leading a team of software developers and analysts
• Strong understanding of Data Warehouse, Data Pipelines and BI applications will be advantageous
• Experience in managing services provided by 3rd party vendors
• Experience in using collaboration and backlog grooming tools is required
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques

Competencies

• A proactive self-starter
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• A strategic mindset,
• Client focused
• Strong interpersonal skills and a passion for building new data services, offerings and solutions.
• Attention to detail with self-discipline,
• Strong ownership and accountability
• Takes initiative on work-related matters; proactively
• Ability to drive your ideas throughout the business, influencing others to understand the value in your opinions.