Agile Leader

We are looking for a self-motivated Agile Leader who enjoys working in a fast growing, technology driven business experiencing rapid growth

Full-time · London

About the job

Merapar is a young and growing software services company. Developing mission critical cloud solutions for many blue-chip clients in various industries including TV and Media, IoT and Automotive. Already, we have millions of people using our award-winning software solutions on a daily basis. We help customers to execute their cloud transformation strategy and it’s our goal to give our end-customers the best possible experience in the cloud.

As a Merapar employee you will be able to work flexibly and cooperate on interesting and challenging technical projects with like-minded team members based not only in the UK but our locations in Netherlands, Germany and Poland. As a relatively new European services business and with a growing UK based operation you will have the opportunity to assist the team in developing and shaping Merapar as a great place to work, delivering real value to our clients.

Whilst travel to clients for necessary project deliverables and meetings is important we are comfortable with our people working from home where appropriate and provide a good suite of tools to enable virtual collaboration.

The people who work for Merapar are our primary asset and we encourage and invest in training and certification in AWS technologies and Agile methodologies.

Flexibility is key for a services business, if you are someone who relishes new challenges and wishes to be in an environment where you will be working with lots of different clients and on many different projects then Merapar is the business for you.

We offer excellent remuneration and benefits such as pension and private health insurance

As a Merapar Agile Leader you will work closely with our clients and development teams to deliver innovative software that provides genuine business value. You will join a skilled and motivated team, hit the ground running and think on your feet. We offer flexibility and freedom in return for passion and commitment.

What you will do:

Mentor and motivate others in Merapar, listen and share knowledge
Drive understanding and adoption of Agile principles, practises and techniques in client stakeholders
Empower development teams to maximise their value through excellent use of agile technique
Maximise engagement and collaboration across the team and between the team and client stakeholders
Enable Agile at scale to deliver end to end functionality across multiple teams

You should have:

A Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Engineering, Computing or other technical subject
A sound technical background as a software developer or similar.
Experience of planning and forecasting in complex agile environments
The ability to identify and solve problems and work with minimal guidance and direction
Proven expertise enabling Agile Transformation in an organisation
Experience of operating Agile at scale
Experience with multiple Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development
Excellent knowledge of English with first-rate verbal and written communication skills
An understanding of security, scalability and resilience in software development

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Do you want to join our team as our new Agile Leader? Then we'd love to hear about you!

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