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Location: London Hybrid Salary: £80,000 - £100,000 + BonusThis role requires, or the ability to gain, SC Clearance.About the clientMy client is a business transformation consultancy, operating as a cohesive unit to pioneer innovation on a scale unparalleled by any other company. With a diverse range of expertise, they possess the unique capability to shepherd ideas from their inception, through meticulous design and development phases, all the way to triumphant commercialisation. Beyond mere product development, they breathe new life into organisations by instilling innovative leadership, fostering dynamic cultures, and optimising systems and processes. Central to their success are their exceptional individuals who embody their purpose with unwavering dedication each day, ensuring that impactful work is consistently delivered.About the roleThis is an excellent opportunity for a Technical lead play a pivotal role in leading Agile software development teams to deliver outstanding technical solutions for their clients. Your responsibilities will extend to guiding project directions with your ability to make practical design choices, ensuring they add substantial value to their clients while adhering to best practices. Your architectural expertise and dedication to a robust path to production, as well as your commitment to fostering a DevOps culture, will be critical aspects of your role.Key Responsibilities

Lead development teams or work across multiple teams, providing centralized expertise for large-scale projects.

Lead by example, applying Agile and DevOps principles effectively.

Maintain a pragmatic, product-focused approach to ensure work consistently meets their clients’ needs.

Work across a variety of technologies, including JavaScript and TypeScript, and possess a comprehensive understanding of common patterns across the full stack of applications.

Take pride in the growth and development of your team members.

Skills & Experience

Experience in software development with a focus on full-stack technologies, including JavaScript and TypeScript.

Extensive knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle.

Proficiency in developing cloud-native applications on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Expertise in defining testing strategies and implementing test automation, with a preference for TDD or BDD.

Experience in implementing CI/CD practices, including version control with Git, branching strategies, automated testing, and deployment pipelines.

Extensive experience working within Agile teams using Scrum or Kanban methodologies.

A strong commitment to delivering technology-enabled products that provide significant value to their clients.

Exceptional communication skills and a collaborative team player who values building strong relationships with colleagues and clients.

Comfortable with multiple programming languages, including JavaScript and TypeScript, and willing to dive into coding when necessary.

A solid understanding of the services offered by major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and a track record of building enterprise-grade applications on one of these platforms.

You will also have excellent communication skills with demonstrable experience in leading teams / projects in this field. You will be able to form excellent relationships with clients working closely with them in shaping solutions, bring projects to a successful conclusion.

REF-225 859

Agile Delivery Senior Manager

Boston Consulting Group

Locations: Atlanta LondonWho We AreBoston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.What You’ll DoYou are joining BCG’s Product Agility and Delivery Center of Excellence (CoE), an 80-person global strategic capability center and critical business partner of BCG’s internal Digital Product Organization (DPO).This team is comprised of business and product delivery experts with specialization in Agile, Product Management, Product Delivery, Org Optimization and AI Innovation. This team is responsible for driving high-performance delivery of product, project and experience leveraging our expertise. This team directly partners with the Digital Product teams and shares in the delivery of their outcomes. Directly, this role and team report into ‘Modern Work Experience and Enablement’, a function within worldwide IT.The Digital Product Organization (DPO) is a 2000+ person, cross-functional product & platform org responsible for running and continuously driving digital product capabilities and experience for all internal BCG business services (HR, Marketing, Legal, Risk, Finance, IT, etc.) and the entire BCG workforce. The DPO has over 20 Product Portfolio Families, 130+ product squads and 10 centres of excellence. This organization operates in a fully mature Agile Enterprise operating model, since its transformation in 2021.This Agile Senior Delivery Manager role, internally referred to as Global Senior Manager - Scrum Lead, is a critical and central part of our product teams. In this role, you are responsible for partnering with product leadership, organizing and managing the team’s way of working, planning and managing the team’s releases, and continuously optimizing the team’s performance by managing key performance indicators.Individuals that succeed in this role are experienced consultants, project leaders, or team leaders who able to manage and influence senior leaders, able to plan and organize complex teams and outcomes, able to deliver high quality results, able to build strong and collaborative teams. You are highly motivated, a self-starter, able to take charge and navigate ambiguity, an innovator, a leader of people and outcomes, and a person that wants to take on tough challenges to learn, grow and make difference. This is not just a Scrum Lead role, this is a Product Delivery Leader role working in Agile.In this role, you will:Drive End-to-End Product Delivery:

Oversee the delivery of product increments from planning to release.

Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of initiatives, epics, features in alignment with the product roadmap.

Facilitate, govern and guide planning sessions and workshops for product discovery or initiation.

Support Product Teams in Prioritization and Estimations of Product features through various techniques like RICE, KANO etc.

Manage dependencies across squads to ensure smooth and timely progress on product deliverables.

Facilitate Release Planning and Management:

Work with Product Owners and chapter leads to plan and execute product releases.

Support pre and post product release activities including L2 support alignment.

Improve agility in processes and tools to reduce time to market and enable faster deployments to productions.

Ensure frequent releases to gather customer feedback and iterate based on insights.

Ensure Quality of the deliverable is maintained by tracking Defect metrics like leakage, defect aging etc.

Facilitate Risk Management:

Identify risks that may impact product delivery and mitigate them proactively.

Address impediments and escalate issues to stakeholders when needed.

Metrics and Reporting:

Track key metrics and OKRs such as velocity, lead time, cycle time, and predictability to evaluate squad’s performance.

Use data-driven insights to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement.

Review with Product Owners, product performance (e.g., C-sat, adoption, product KPIs).

Ensure product development efforts align with desired outcomes and results.

Create dashboards and reports that provide clear visibility into product development progress for stakeholders like Portfolio leadership, sponsors etc.

Coach on Agile Processes:

Guide teams in adopting Agile practices like Scrum, Kanban, or a hybrid approach tailored to the product development context.

Coach cross-functional teams, product leaders, and stakeholders to embed Agile mindsets and practices that foster adaptability, autonomy, and innovation. Act as a catalyst for organizational change by challenging the status quo and co-creating improved ways of working.

Ensure Agile ceremonies (e.g., Daily scrum, retrospectives, planning) are productive and value driven.

Continuous Improvement: Encourage teams to reflect on processes and identify areas for improvement during retrospectives.

Encourage culture of inspect and adapt and failing fast through Sprint Reviews.

Support Team Enablement:

Fostering a Collaborative Environment: Build a psychologically safe space for team members to communicate openly and take ownership of their work. Promote a culture of accountability and self-organization.

Encourage opportunities of Innovation and Experimentation.

Partner with Product Owners:

To ensure delivery aligns with the product vision and business strategy.

To define and track OKRs successful completion.

In backlog prioritization to maximize business value and strategic impact.

To identify stakeholders and actively manage expectations.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

Developing relationships, engaging, and influencing stakeholders broadly, including senior leaders, to direct business outcomes

Living agile culture and values and spreading your passion for them among other teams

Sharing and transmitting passion and in-depth knowledge about Agile principles and are excited to embed them across the organization

Applying innovative and creative thinking to solve complex problems and get things done

Bringing a data-driven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs

Problem solving difficult and complex problems, typically within ambiguous and non-structured settings, and transforming obstacles into big opportunities

Being strategic and proactive, bringing proven team coaching experience.

Communicating with empathy and influencing others broadly within your area of responsibility

Being an agile role model: you work collaboratively, you show courage, you take responsibility, you have confidence, you speak out, you are creative, and you simplify

Interacting with others with excellent people management skills: listening, motivating, observing, giving and receiving feedback helps individuals and teams grow

Driving decision-making and exercises independent sound judgment in determining appropriate methods to drives results across squads

Delivering complex products, initiatives and outcomes using Agile and Lean methods.

Managing stakeholders, ensuring alignment and providing transparency.

YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO

Identify and solve difficult and complex problems, typically within ambiguous and non-structured settings

Ability to deliver complex outcomes and support achievement of objectives and key results.

Proactively advise, facilitate, and coach your Squads

Draw on best practices and develop creative solutions to address challenges facing Squad

Use thorough analysis and strong business judgement to ensure resolution of problems that are not well defined

Act as a key resource for squads’ leadership in clarifying complex problems and developing customer and employee centric solutions

Able to manage difficult situations and get to resolution and outcomes.

Understand impact of problems and solutions on big picture and influences outcomes across squads

Providing strategic consulting to business and technology stakeholders on how to achieve agility and improve time-to-value.

Leading through influence, often without formal authority, by building credibility and trust at all levels of the organization.

Able to develop presentations in PowerPoint and present to a larger audience.

Able to engage and manage stakeholders effectively.

What You’ll Bring

Minimum, computer science, technology, design or a relevant field (advanced degree and/or higher education preferred)

5-10+ years of client facing management consulting experience - big 4 consulting preferred . click apply for full job details

Data Engineer – GCP/DSS

£65,000/day - £75,000/day

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Job Title: Data Engineer – GCP/DSS Department: Enabling Functions Location: Hybrid, London Type: Both Contract (Inside IR35) & Permanent available Salary: Competitive; depends on experience and open to discussion Purpose of Job What you will be working on While our broker platform is the core technology crucial to success – this role will focus on supporting the middle/back-office operations that will lay the foundations for further and sustained success. We’re a multi-disciplined team, bringing together expertise in software and data engineering, full stack development, platform operations, algorithm research, and data science. Our squads focus on delivering high-impact solutions – we favour a highly iterative, analytical approach. You will be designing and developing complex data processing modules and reporting using Big Query and Tableau. In addition, you will also work closely with the Infrastructure/Platform Team, responsible for architecting and operating the core of the Data Analytics platform. Principle Accountabilities Work with both the business teams (finance and actuary initially), data scientists and engineers to design, build, optimise and maintain production grade data pipelines and reporting from an internal Data warehouse solution, based on GCP/Big Query. Work with finance, actuaries, data scientists and engineers to understand how we can make best use of new internal and external data sources. Work with our delivery partners at EY/IBM to ensure robustness of design and engineering of the data model/MI and reporting which can support our ambitions for growth and scale. BAU ownership of data models, reporting and integrations/pipelines. Create frameworks, infrastructure and systems to manage and govern data assets. Produce detailed documentation to allow ongoing BAU support and maintenance of data structures, schema, reporting etc. Work with the broader Engineering community to develop our data and MLOps capability infrastructure. Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance with internal and external standards. Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline issues, ensuring reliability and accuracy Regulatory Conduct and Rules

Act with integrity

Act with due skill, care and diligence

Be open and co-operative with Lloyd’s, the FCA, the PRA, and other regulators

Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly

Observe proper standards of market conduct Education, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Experience * Experience designing data models and developing industrialised data pipelines. * Strong knowledge of database and data lake systems. * Hands-on experience in Big Query, dbt, GCP cloud storage. * Proficient in Python, SQL and Terraform. * Knowledge of Cloud SQL, Airbyte, Dagster. * Comfortable with shell scripting with Bash or similar. * Experience provisioning new infrastructure in a leading cloud provider, preferably GCP. * Proficient with Tableau Cloud for data visualization and reporting. * Experience creating DataOps pipelines. * Comfortable working in an Agile environment, actively participating in approaches such as Scrum or Kanban Desirable Skills Experience of streaming data systems and frameworks would be a plus. Experience working in regulated industry, especially financial services, would be a plus. Experience creating MLOps pipelines is a plus The applicant must also demonstrate the following skills and abilities Excellent communication skills (both oral and written). Pro-active, self-motivated and able to use own initiative. Excellent analytical and technical skills. Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies. Ability to offer balanced opinion regarding existing and future technologies. How to Apply If you are interested in the Data Engineer – GCP/DSS position, please apply here

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Frequently asked questions

What types of Kanban jobs are available in London?

London offers a variety of Kanban-related roles including Kanban Coach, Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master with Kanban expertise, Product Owner, and Process Improvement Specialist.

Do I need specific certifications to apply for Kanban jobs in London?

While not always mandatory, certifications such as Kanban Management Professional (KMP) or Lean Kanban University credentials can significantly improve your chances of securing a Kanban job in London.

What industries in London commonly use Kanban methodology?

Kanban is popular across multiple sectors in London, including IT and software development, finance, digital marketing, and consulting firms aiming to improve workflow efficiency.

Are Kanban jobs in London suitable for remote or hybrid work?

Many Kanban roles in London offer flexible work arrangements, including remote and hybrid options, though this depends on the employer’s policies and project requirements.

How can I improve my chances of landing a Kanban job in London?

Enhance your profile by gaining relevant Kanban certifications, building experience with Agile project management tools, networking within local Agile communities, and tailoring your CV to highlight Kanban-related skills.