Vice President †Agile Engineering Lead

Team / division overview

The Chief Operating Office (COO) , CTO DWS Tech Division is a key enabler for DWS and is integral to the future success of the company by delivering world-class services across a set of key functions.

It covers essential Technology and Operations capabilities, and aims to deliver a platform which is efficient, scalable, resilient and agile.

What we'll offer you

• As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that youll enjoy,
• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• As a Agile lead, you would be responsible to facilitate and drive the group of agile leads and scrum master in implementing the agile best practices across multiple verticals.
• You will be accountable for one area and guide other areas for best practices, all the scrum ceremonies and promote the agile values within the team.
• You would coach the team to become self-organizing, build a culture of accountability, ownership and high performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate scrum events stand ups, sprint planning, reviews, & retrospectives.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers and stakeholders to achieve the team goals in iterative way.
• Coach the team as required and ensure an effective conflict resolution.
• Drive retrospective session with data to bring in required process improvements.
• Bring the transparency with regular communication to all the stakeholders.

Your skills and experience

Skills You'll Need

Must Have:

• Overall experience of 10+ years with at 5+ years in the role of scrum master.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
• Knowledge of numerous well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (examplenumerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs etc).
• Hands on with JIRA, confluence.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Desirable skills that will help you excel

• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniquesUser Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (examplenumerous Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs etc.)
• Prior experience as a developer or team lead.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering or relevant technology & science
• Technology certifications from any industry leading cloud providers