Business Agility  / Ways of Working Consultant

United Kingdom

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Our ::summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Ways of Working consultant to join Projective’s Digital and Innovation community. We are seeking individuals with a strong Agile delivery background and good practical working knowledge of DevOps, applications and infrastructure across a range of agile delivery frameworks. Candidates should have a core passion for building and co-creating true value for our clients, having domain expertise within at least one of the following: banking and payments, capital markets, insurance and wealth and asset management, to help deliver a range of projects in the UK and Europe.

About the ::challenge

As a core member at Projective, you will shape and drive complex business and technology change for our clients, develop and implement revenue enhancement strategies, build new digitally enabled business models and products, redesign Target Operating Models, and ultimately help co-create unique ways of working which help unlock our clients’ true value. Typically these roles include:

  • Consulting and coaching our clients’ teams in new way of working, helping them transform the company and supporting their journey’s towards a culture of continuous improvement
  • Providing training and coaching to cross-functional delivery teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners or Product Managers as well as Leadership teams and DevOps Engineers
  • Convey and help evolve our client’s Operating Model to meet their needs of enhancing value and flow towards their end customers,  leveraging your experience of organisational agility, DevOps, Lean, Kanban, Scrum and Agile at Scale frameworks ​
  • Developing an understanding of client’s strategic direction, issues and objectives to drive the appropriate transformation and change roadmap​
  • Core player in building our internal capabilities

Your ::skills

We are currently recruiting for all a number of junior to senior level positions, including

  1. Scrum Masters
  2. Agile Transformation Consultants
  3. DevOps Transformation Consultants

Candidates should have proven delivery capability in the following skills:

  • In-depth knowledge and experience implementing one (or more) Agile methodologies, with experience from inception to outcomes
  • Preferred knowledge of technology operations, change and leading technical standards across Cloud, DevOps and modern applications development
  • Knowledge of business contexts of Agile and DevOps, including operating in heavily regulated environments, those with little or no technology element to the work, and strong focus on business and customer outcomes
  • Solid stakeholder management and communication skills, and ability to articulate the agile mindset shift in practical and real terms to people
  • Highly effective relationship management skills, with the ability to find ways of resolving blockers and impediments
  • Strong facilitations skills
  • Excellent written communication, to articulate effective feature, epic and story descriptions, definition of done and acceptance criteria
  • Previous experience as a hands on Agile Coach, Scrum Master or Agile and / or DevOps Transformation consultant is beneficial
  • An added bonus in practical working knowledge on DevOps Principles including, but not limited to CALMR, Shift Left on Security, the Three Ways
  • Agile certifications are advantageous, particularly in SAFe, Scrum, Disciplined Agile Delivery, Kanban, Lead Systems Development and XP

Other:

  • English is a must, knowledge of Dutch/French is a plus
  • Travel and working with cross-border teams might be a possibility
  • For non-EU-members: a valid work permit (please mention the type and validity period in your resume)
  • You can move fast, be bold, and thrive in a dynamic, quickly-changing environment
  • You want to live and breathe the #projectivelife

Projective is committed to invest in its consultants for certification in a variety of Agile approaches and we offer a generous training budget.

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