Delivery Lead - 12 months FTC

Delivery Lead - 12 months FTC

Location: Hybrid working, with travel to the Handforth Support Office

About us

At Pets at Home, we want our Development Team to evolve the way we do business and shape the future of pet care

Why Join?

• Joining our team means you’ll play a crucial role in advancing our digital capabilities and enhancing our customer experience. 

• We’re also putting pets and their owners at the heart of our digital transformation. As we bring our stores, vets and groom rooms together into a holistic ecosystem of pet care, we’ll give customers a seamless, multi-channel experience that meets their individual needs at every stage.

About the role

As the Delivery Lead, you will be accountable for the software development and leading the delivery team, whilst also facilitating conversations and engagements between the development technical leadership team and their stakeholders working within the Petcare digital platform.

To lead two of the software development teams, including:

• Agile Process Facilitation – facilitating the various ceremonies and processes required for a successful Delivery team.
• Stakeholder Engagement Facilitation – facilitating engagements between the software development function and stakeholders across the business and externally.
• Software Deployment Facilitation – facilitates the deployment of software into test and production environments with appropriate controls.
• Reporting – works with the team to ensure that reporting metrics such as velocity and burndowns for the team are produced and transparent.
• Backlog Management – works with the product owner to manage the features backlog and plan the future roadmaps
• Impediment Removal – Constantly and consistently works to remove impediments and issues that are slowing down the development team.

About your experience

You’ll be a champion of Agile working practices with a background in mentoring squads to adhere to best practice.

You’ll have a strong track record of Software Delivery, ideally in an enterprise-level environment.

Key experience required includes:

• Proven experience managing software development teams
• In-depth knowledge of SCRUM and other agile lifecycles such as Kanban.
• Proven experience of working in an agile software development environment to deliver software products
• Experience of presenting to technical and non-technical audiences both in small interactive sessions and larger group settings.
• Experience of working with teams using automated testing frameworks and techniques such as TDD.
• Experience of working with CI/CD pipelines and establishing good development practices.

Desirable:

• A history of working within in-house development teams
• A good understanding of services / micro-services-based architectures and their benefits and drawbacks

About our purpose

There are all kinds of personal and professional benefits to being part of our Development team, but it’s also worth remembering that everything we do has a sense of purpose. We’re not just here to sell food or treats, we want to help pets and their owners live happier, healthier lives together. When you make a project a success, there’s a pet and its owner at the other end who are benefiting from your efforts.

We take our inspiration from pets in embracing people from all walks of life, and we value, respect and celebrate difference. We encourage our people to be their best selves so that we can create a better world for Pets, our Planet, and People. Our ambition is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and we are intentional in addressing and removing barriers to create opportunities for the exceptional talent and potential in our communities. Even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you.