Insurance Programme Manager with Guidewire -to £140k incl. bonus

Job Description

As a Programme Manager you will work closely with our clients, and award winning software development teams who are often based in our delivery centres in countries such as Spain, Poland and Brazil. Highly agile our clientis flexible with project managementmethods and agile frameworks we use, depending on whats best for our clients and the specifics of the engagement.This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

• Engages with senior business stakeholders, senior technology stakeholders, project and programme managers as well as product owners
• Facilitates the team to self-organise, enabling continuous improvement of change and run activities, aligned to the product roadmap and customer expectations
• Responsible for leadership responsibilities that enable agile delivery, including facilitating team meetings such as retrospectives, reviews and planning events.
• Works within most critical and complex technology projects - likely to span across multiple business units and / or geographies
• Identifies and removes or mitigates obstacles blocking the teams progress
• Shields the team from unnecessary interruptions
• Ensures best practice agile and wagile adoption
• Establishes an ethos of continuous improvement within teams
• Assures delivery through the entire life-cycle of the project of user requirements through to working software in the hands of users
• Is comfortable getting into the detail around agile engineering practices (such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) but neednt hold certifications
• Supports and guides Product Owners and Agile Delivery Leads
• Drives the agile team performance and outcome metrics as required

Must have:

• Waterfall project management methodologies
• Recent experience of at least one major Agile methodology such as Scrum or Kanban
• Experience of the end to end software development lifecycle
• Experience of modern software frameworks and solutions. Preference will be given to anyone with one or more of DevOps, CI/CD, Cloud (ideally GCP)

Preferable:

• Consulting experience
• Experience using and applying Lean principles of software development
• Agile at Scale methodologies such as SAFe, Spotify, LeSS, Scrum at Scale
• Agile management tooling such as JIRA

Personal Skills

• You should be able to clearly demonstrate you are a driven person who has achieved success in your career that goes above the normal.
• You should be able to demonstrate that you are a curious person, who is continuously learning
• You should be able to demonstrate that you are a strong team player, who is open to the views of others
• An ability to apply structured thinking, simplifying complex problems into component parts, to the resolution of project challenges.
• Working practices; thorough with high standards of work.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to be able to establish rapport with people at all levels.
• An eye for detail and accuracy, and an affinity with design issues and the ability to help establish an own a vision for our solutions.
• Organizational ability and tenacity; able to think ahead in order to establish an efficient and appropriate course of action for self and others.
• Take a proactive approach to work, good with handling uncertainty and can manage their work without close supervision.
• A strong sense of ownership and a desire to deliver quality outcomes for the business.
• Demonstrated an aptitude in sales centric roles, typically in support of key sales personnel.