Rathbones provides individual investment and wealth management services for private clients, charities, trustees and professional partners. We have been trusted for generations to manage and preserve our clients’ wealth.
Our tradition of investing and acting responsibly has been with us from the beginning and continues to lead us forward. Our ambition is to be recognised as the UK’s most responsible wealth manager.
We see it as our responsibility to invest for everyone’s tomorrow. That means doing the right thing for our clients and for others too. Keeping the future in mind when we make decisions today. Looking beyond the short term for the most sustainable outcome. This is how we build enduring value for our clients, make a wider contribution to society and create a lasting legacy. Thinking, acting and investing responsibly.
Job Title: Delivery Lead
Department: Product & Transformation
Location: Liverpool, London, Glasgow
Contract Type: Perm
The Role
The Delivery Lead will be responsible for implementing the vision of the Snr Product Owner/Product Owner, ensuring the team’s delivery success by leveraging the appropriate Agile methodology to enable consistent, high quality delivery while maintaining a focus on the continuous improvement of the team. Outcomes of the Role
Delivery
Works with senior business and technology stakeholders to define the delivery roadmap based on the vision and priorities set by the Product Owner. Manages / optimises the use of our testing environments to ensure that developments and enhancements can be received, tested, and released as efficiently as possible without impacting the live environment (e.g. parallel release management). Manages our matrixed agile development team consisting of virtual resources from our business, technical, data, design and research centres of excellence in a continual make-test-learn product cycle and helps them continuously improve, share information, and set standards to deliver our strategic vision for the product. Manages our third party partners responsible for elements of the product development cycle. Drives the pace of delivery and is responsible for owning key blockers until they are resolved, guiding other members of the delivery community to help them deliver effectively. Liaises with other Delivery Leads across our major transformation programmes to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated. Coaching
Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team’s practices and work products. Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organisation. Utilises team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with the team to continuously improve. Understands and encourages engineering innovation and improvement. Knowledge, Skills and Experience
You behave and promote Rathbones values of Being Responsible, Working Together, Always Professional, and Showing Courage. You are an experienced agile practitioner (at least 3+ years working in agile) with a strong track record of successfully leading development teams through the full product lifecycle. You are passionate about coaching others and embedding continuous improvement frameworks. You can successfully influence and manage senior stakeholders. You have experience of working with a Product Owner. You are preferably an experienced Wealth Management professional, or have a good foundation in Wealth Management / Private Banking with the curiosity to quickly pick up subject matter expertise on a specific product set. Experience using project management and virtual collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro, PPM. Significant experience of managing agile project delivery through software development teams. Significant experience working in a Delivery Lead, Scrum Master, or similar, role alongside software development teams. Understanding of fundamentals of iterative software development and incremental delivery. Life at Rathbones
We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all. We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values – those that are passionate about client service, operate with the highest levels of integrity and have a strong results focus.
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Department: Product & Transformation
Location: Liverpool, London, Glasgow
Contract Type: Perm
The Role
The Delivery Lead will be responsible for implementing the vision of the Snr Product Owner/Product Owner, ensuring the team’s delivery success by leveraging the appropriate Agile methodology to enable consistent, high quality delivery while maintaining a focus on the continuous improvement of the team. Outcomes of the Role
Delivery
Works with senior business and technology stakeholders to define the delivery roadmap based on the vision and priorities set by the Product Owner. Manages / optimises the use of our testing environments to ensure that developments and enhancements can be received, tested, and released as efficiently as possible without impacting the live environment (e.g. parallel release management). Manages our matrixed agile development team consisting of virtual resources from our business, technical, data, design and research centres of excellence in a continual make-test-learn product cycle and helps them continuously improve, share information, and set standards to deliver our strategic vision for the product. Manages our third party partners responsible for elements of the product development cycle. Drives the pace of delivery and is responsible for owning key blockers until they are resolved, guiding other members of the delivery community to help them deliver effectively. Liaises with other Delivery Leads across our major transformation programmes to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated. Coaching
Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team’s practices and work products. Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organisation. Utilises team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with the team to continuously improve. Understands and encourages engineering innovation and improvement. Knowledge, Skills and Experience
You behave and promote Rathbones values of Being Responsible, Working Together, Always Professional, and Showing Courage. You are an experienced agile practitioner (at least 3+ years working in agile) with a strong track record of successfully leading development teams through the full product lifecycle. You are passionate about coaching others and embedding continuous improvement frameworks. You can successfully influence and manage senior stakeholders. You have experience of working with a Product Owner. You are preferably an experienced Wealth Management professional, or have a good foundation in Wealth Management / Private Banking with the curiosity to quickly pick up subject matter expertise on a specific product set. Experience using project management and virtual collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro, PPM. Significant experience of managing agile project delivery through software development teams. Significant experience working in a Delivery Lead, Scrum Master, or similar, role alongside software development teams. Understanding of fundamentals of iterative software development and incremental delivery. Life at Rathbones
We aim to become an employer of choice for the wealth management sector, to achieve this we are working hard to build a diverse, equal, and inclusive workplace that motivates, develops and embraces the strengths of all our colleagues. Being part of Rathbones means you will join a team of passionate professionals in a successful culture that cares for its people. At Rathbones, we provide meaningful work, opportunities, and a voice to all. We are committed to building a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We welcome individuals who share our values – those that are passionate about client service, operate with the highest levels of integrity and have a strong results focus.
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