Agile Delivery Lead

Agile Delivery Lead – Consumer and Customer Service Solutions


At Electrolux we have a greater purpose than launching the latest product or technology. We want to improve the everyday lives of millions in a sustainable way. But to keep doing so, we need more people who want to innovate and re-imagine what life at home can be.


As an Agile Delivery Lead for consumer and customer service solutions you will be responsible for managing a combined team of internal and vendor development teams ensuring successful execution of large program and project Go-Lives as well as delivering agile product increments in a highly integrated consumer landscape. This role provides a unique opportunity for you to define, develop and run an agile software factory delivery capability within Electrolux and grow in to a fully scalable product team’s set-up.


What you will do:


In this role you will be responsible for everything from build, test through to successful technical enablement of our software releases and therefore you will have line management responsibility for the test and release management functions managing a small team of 3-5 test and release managers/ engineers. You will report to the Solution Delivery Manager in a key role strengthening Agile and Scrum practices throughout the organization, ensuring that everyone is sufficiently supported to act in an autonomous and in self-organized teams. As an agile delivery lead you will also act as the Agile Subject Matter and be the escalation point for all solution delivery related matters supporting internal and vendor delivery teams unblocking functional, technical and resource impediments. You will coordinate, manage and support the Scrum Masters, vendor delivery managers, Product Owners, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Developers to successfully deliver cross-functional integrated solutions.


The successful candidate will be expected to run agile ceremonies and scrum of scrum with multiple development teams playing the role of a software factory manager.


Who you are:


To succeed in this role you will need to demonstrable experience in managing agile project delivery through software development teams and a clear understanding of iterative software development and incremental product deliveries in a matrix organization. Previous experience working in a Scrum Master or Product Owner role managing software development teams is essential. You will need to be able to communicate effectively with a multitude of people across IT, business, and vendor teams including senior stakeholders and be capable of exercising conflict resolution. You will advocate for agile methodology and a coaching ability, with an eye for process, reporting and analysis. Experience undergoing a Waterfall to agile product team transition previously would be considered advantageous. If you have experience from working in a technical landscape that is made of SaaS ERP, CRM products combined with a micro-service based architecture will be an added advantage.


Requirements:


Experience in guiding implementation of software factory and product teams
Experience leading the organizational design and technical leadership challenges that come with scaling many dependent software development teams
Experience working alongside or managing software solution vendors
Experience implementing software testing and release management practices
Drive technical design and architecture decisions by facilitating feature or capability estimation and tradeoff discussions
Actively participate in project and program meetings aligning agile release trains with business Go-Live(s)
You have experience from successful delivery of high-quality consumer facing solutions
You enjoy working closely with both technical and business facing team members
You can consult and create consensus across broad stakeholder groups
Strong stakeholder management, planning, organization, decision making and time management skills. Ability to prioritize, multi task and effectively delegate.
High level of flexibility with a strong ability to lead others successfully through cultural, process, technology and business transformational change
Coach, mentor and motivate team members
Drive continuous improvement
Scrum coaching and drive Scrum of Scrum
Good understanding of DevOps tools like Confluence, JIRA, Bit Bucket etc and processes
Previous experience managing a team





What we offer:


Electrolux offers an exciting and challenging job opportunity in an international environment, with a high degree of independence and entrepreneurship.
The Electrolux Group provides career opportunities within a global, fast moving, growing yet lean organization. This role will have several touch points globally within the company.


Who we are:


Electrolux shapes living for the better by reinventing taste, care and wellbeing experiences, making life more enjoyable and sustainable for millions of people. As a leading global appliance company, we place the consumer at the heart of everything we do. Through our brands, including Electrolux, AEG, Anova, Frigidaire, Westinghouse and Zanussi, we sell more than 60 million household and professional products in more than 150 markets every year. In 2018, Electrolux had sales of SEK 124 billion and employed 55,000 people around the world. For more information, go to www.electroluxgroup.com.


At Electrolux, we have a top management team who are passionate about gender diversity and diversity in general. It’s integral to our Talent process, in how we grow talent. It’s embedded in our initiatives and we have strong metrics to track this. But it’s not just from the top. There is a network called Women at Electrolux operating in six major geographies that generates belief from the grassroots and keeps the topic top of mind. That combination is for us very powerful.


In terms of metrics, we have very clear targets. To get to the right rotation, the right successions, we have to take tangible steps. We push ourselves to find great talents male and female.