Principal Agile Delivery Consultant

Job Description

As a Principal Agile Delivery Consultant at Qodea, you will play a critical role in driving the success of the business by leading project teams focused on delivering high-quality solutions to our clients. You will support our sales department in expanding existing accounts through effective discovery and consultancy activities and provide advice and recommendations, based on expertise and experience, to address client needs.

You will ideally have a variety of roles in a variety of domains in your background such as Business Analyst, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile Lead. Familiarity with Cloud technology would be hugely beneficial along with experience in working on cross discipline projects - Data, AI/ML, Platform, App Dev, Security - in a consultancy environment. This is a customer facing role so strong presentation skills are important and there is a requirement for occasional travel to customer sites.

Responsibilities

Business Analysis and Product Ownership:

• Comprehensive analysis of business operations, information systems, and technical infrastructures
• Estimate, plan and implement the analysis activity for projects and engagements; including leading the engagement with stakeholders to understand their requirements and sometimes challenge their value
• Effective requirement elicitation, management and traceability, functional and nonfunctional;
• Manage the backlog as ‘Product Owner’ on behalf of the client, maximise value delivered, validate features and support test activity
• Work closely with technical professionals to lead effective discovery to enable development of solutions that deliver value, understand business benefits and dependencies
• Delivering agreed outcomes from projects using appropriate management techniques, collaboration, leadership and governance.

Agile Methodology and Scrum Framework:

• Tailor the Agile approach according to the project context; facilitate Agile events and assist others to understand the Agile approach and selected framework
• Coach others (inside & outside of the Agile Delivery function) on topics such as elicitation methods, estimation, iterative development etc
• Create and deliver presentations to demonstrate delivered features and explain how they meet client needs
• Effectively monitor and report Agile metrics against each allocated project
• Effectively monitor the delivery team compliance with Agile Delivery function standards
• Actively promote agile methodologies and frameworks as an organisational strength to customers

Principal Agile Delivery Consultant - Overall:

• Help to evolve the Agile Delivery function by sharing knowledge and skills and coaching more junior members of the team
• Improving organisational performance by developing the performance of projects and workgroups to meet agreed objectives with measurable results.
• Work with the Sales function to assist with project scoping/discovery activity and sales meetings to support expansion in existing accounts or new opportunities and help customers understand the value of Agile Delivery

• We’re proud of our B Corp status. We ask that you are proactive in our drive towards social progress and positive impacts. Whether that’s getting involved in one of our community projects or simply buying local when travelling with the company.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills both written and verbal, to manage external stakeholders effectively
• Proven leadership skills, with experience of leading both projects and teams
• Expert leading of Discovery activities and workshop facilitation
• Relevant BA and/or PO certification
• Relevant Agile certification

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Private healthcare scheme
• Company pension
• Death in Service - 4x annual salary
• Flexible annual leave policy and your birthday off
• 10 learning days per year
• Length of service awards
• Work from anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• Sabbatical leave for employees over 5 years service
• Marketing leading parental leave policies
• Flexible working culture
• Company events - opportunities to meet colleagues you don’t see every day
• Regular opportunities for industry recognised training and certifications
• Opportunities to develop within a fast growing-tech business with ambitious growth and impact goals

About Us

Qodea (formally Appsbroker CTS) is the largest Google Cloud-only digital consultancy in Europe. Our name marks the culmination of a journey which began with the merger of Appsbroker and CTS in 2023. Combining the words ‘code’ and ‘idea’, our name embodies the essence of who we are and what we do; providing tried and trusted digital solutions, whilst helping our clients look to the future and innovate. We’re looking for bright, passionate people to join us at the vanguard, delivering the most ambitious Google Cloud projects across AI, security, martech, data, and Workspace.

As a purpose-driven, certified B Corp, we strive to be great to work with and great to work for. We’re lucky to have some fantastic household names as customers, and fantastic colleagues delivering the ideas, technologies, and impacts that matter.

With offices across Europe, you’ll be joining a dynamic team of talented but down-to-earth experts, with a presence across the UK, the Netherlands, Romania, and Belgium.

By joining forces, both companies bring over 15 years of Google Cloud experience under one roof, with over 420+ Google certifications, a list of brilliant enterprise customers, incredibly talented people, and multiple industry awards - meaning we can be trusted to deliver.