Technical Delivery Lead

What will your ‘typical’ day look like… (there’s no two days the same in Atom):

Atom’s Tech Delivery teams create new features that our customers love. We automate our internal processes, so our colleagues don’t have to do things manually. Our Tech Delivery teams are responsible for managing and delivering all change in Atom, technical & non-technical. We achieve this by bringing people with different skills together into cross-functional & highly performant teams, to guide us on our mission of making banking better for everyone!

We’ve aligned our Tech Delivery teams to business Value Streams covering Mortgages, Business Lending, Savings, Enterprise & Platform. As a Delivery Lead in our Savings Value Stream, you’ll lead an “Accelerator” team, focused on continuous improvements, tech debt & feature development and have real involvement in improving product development.

The Savings Value Stream is focused on creating fantastic products that deliver for customers whilst driving revenue, you’ll be able to make a tangible impact by nurturing and inspiring your sub-stream team to take accountability for their delivery process and the great outcomes they deliver. You’ll be someone who is open minded and brings new ideas & ways of working to the table, whilst having a sound understanding of Mobile App Development.

You will also:

• Champion good practice within your team to support their ongoing improvement
• Work with their architecture team members to create a technology strategy
• Help the team measure and understand their performance using relevant metrics (DORA and other metrics such as throughput, cycle time, happiness), using them as a basis for improvement
• Utilise feedback for continuous learning and improvement in efficient and incremental value delivery to accelerate speed to market
• Identify and implement improvements in People/Team Topologies, Process, Technology and Culture
• Manage of the Run/Opex and Change/Capex budgets for their sub-stream, working with Finance on forecasts and actuals

What do we need from you?

• Be delivery focussed - You deliver to commitments whilst ensuring quality
• Proven experience of successful Agile Product delivery
• Strong understanding of Mobile App Development e.g. refactoring
• Software Engineering background
• Knowledge of & experience using Kanban whilst working in Agile environments
• Knowledge and experience of other techniques that complement agility, such as Dev(Sec)Ops, Lean, Systems Thinking, Queuing Theory, Theory of Constraints
• Experience in leading delivery teams, and helping them become mature, high-performing, and autonomous
• Possess a deep understanding of software delivery lifecycle
• Experience managing products and backlogs in Jira and Confluence