You will drive delivery of pieces of work and maximise delivery to the business by creating a team environment where team members are empowered to succeed
You will help ensure an atmosphere of psychological safety and trust with the squads you are working with
You will understand and input into current and future squad capacity requirements
You will anticipate technical risks, communicate them effectively to the relevant stakeholders, and make architectural / design decisions to avoid them
You will be central to laying the foundations to the path ahead, working with Product Directors and Product Owners to understand business objectives, identify potential solutions and reduce uncertainty
You will proactively identify and help to refocus your team's efforts when projects are off-course or not technically feasible and results aren’t moving the needle for our business/team goals or serving the needs of customers in a meaningful way
Work closely with Product Owner and Technical Lead, ensuring high level designs (where required) and user stories are ready at the start of each sprint
Seek out opportunities to grow the skills and experience team members, using a coaching style of 1-1s to support their development
Facilitate agile ceremonies, leading where appropriate, ensuring meetings are focused, productive and fun and that the process adds value
Help to remove blockers to success, troubleshooting and mediating to find solutions where required
Ensure the achievements of the team are understood by recognizing them and promoting them within the business
Provide planning support and recommendations to Product Owner and Strategist
You will influence the direction of our Vendor Integration and Analytics Strategy coordinating multiple teams with the goal of speedy, efficient delivery
You work with other technology leads to drive better practices across the technology organisation
You will lead and build on an architectural strategy and vision, which is transparent, collaborative, and develops buy- in with the whole team
You will maintain a view of all the technologies we use across the WorkHuman estate and how they might evolve and to understand what impact that will have on the business
You will take the lead on proof-of-concept activities
You will be expected to influence significant changes in the interview process where appropriate to reflect the needs of the team
You will be expected to attract or refer other senior hires
You will continuously research and experiment with new and better approaches for all aspects of development tooling and workflows, and as a result is internally seen as a innovator on the subject