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Agile Group Lead

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Mambu is the leading SaaS core banking engine. If you’re a customer of the largest digital bank in the EU, then you’ve probably interacted with our platform and didn't even know it. We are at the heart of what makes digital banks and lenders work - the system that processes banking transactions and updates accounts and other financial records from deposits to loans and credit balances. But we are different. We are not just cloud-native, lean and flexible - we are helping to revolutionise financial services globally. We are in a growth phase and we’ve only just begun.

To help us on our mission, we bring together people with the best skills and attitude. It doesn’t matter where you are from, what matters is the impact you have and your passion to make a difference.

We are looking for a passionate, skilled and enthusiastic leader of a group of people that have similar responsibilities, but operate in different teams, for achieving their best results. As an Agile Group Lead, you'll define Agile Group direction, goals and establishes holistic coaching principles, while contributing to achieving them. You will also ensure consistent and scalable way of working, measure lead time, map the value stream along with identifying and removing delays. As a group people & hiring manager, you’ll be setting up relevant and challenging career path for group members, acting as Mentor for them.

You will:

Ensure that the group is successful & highly motivated by:

  • Establish a holistic coaching and mentorship principles and ensure each Agile Coach receives fair & just-in-time feedback;
  • Establish long-term trust-based blameless environment in a globally distributed team;
  • Foster autonomy, mastery and purpose;
  • Create personalized career paths for all Agile Coaches, for achieving personal & company long-term goals;
  • Create belt & grade upgrade process that ensures consistency across the group;
  • Ensure each person has fair feedback and review process, while encouraging ongoing bidirectional feedback;
  • Continuously facilitates skills growth for each Agile Coach (trainings, conferences, learning materials, mentors etc.).

Make sure that the group members have clear direction and efficient way of working by:

  • Define group direction and objectives, phase & implement them and measure success;
  • Define the way of working for Agile Coaches, thus enabling their full autonomy inside the teams;
  • Ensure efficient tools and processes in the flows for achieving the best result;
  • Identify general group workflow impediments and find ways for addressing them.

Ensure that all teams and mambuvians apply modern agile practices by:

  • Coordinate holistic learning & coaching programs for injecting agile mindset across the whole company;
  • Ensure each team is constantly improving their agility, applies relevant success measurements and adapts to demand & changes;
  • All teams become self-organised and are able to get over any impediments in their work.

Ensure group capacity to succeed by:

  • Design recruiting process and skills validation for Agile Coaches, to ensure group and individual growth needs (Hiring Manager for agile group);
  • Define recruiting strategies to acquire new skills or create group capacity to satisfy business needs, longevity, skills diversity, attrition mitigation and competitiveness;
  • Ensure fair & competitive salaries and benefits;
  • Ensure all the new and existing teams have just-in-time coaching for performing as agile practitioners;
  • Ensures group has only members that are aligned to our company values, group direction and required set of skills.

Design efficient and scalable onboardings by:

  • Design efficient onboarding process for new Agile Coaches (new Mambuvians or people transitions from other groups);
  • Agile Coaches facilitate onboarding of all new engineering team members;
  • Ensure Agile Coaches are aligned to our values and culture & their skills and plans are aligned with the team they are part of;
  • Capture on-time feedback about Agile Coaches in onboarding and monitor actions/corrections.

Have to be a passionate Group Member by:

  • Empathise and constantly align with Agile Group group strong & pain points;
  • Be hands-on a % of your time, decided by you.

You need to have:

  • Strong leadership skills, in regards to establishing trust, transparency and achieving goals
  • Experience in coordinating a large group of people
  • Strong people management skills, able to understand people ambitions and align them to organization needs and offer constant guidance and feedback for achieving them
  • Good understanding of DevOps principles and way of working
  • 5+ years of experience as Agile Coach
  • Experience with modern Agile practices and be able to find the best working principles that apply to our company needs
  • Proactive, detail oriented, creative and team-player attitude
  • Solid background in software engineering and operations that enables smooth streamlined process for delivering value
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Why Mambu:

  • Mambuvians come from over 30 countries across 6 continents which makes our team diverse in perspective and ideas;
  • With clients and offices around the world your work will influence change on a global level;
  • Our culture is integral to our success and is built on trust, collaboration and a sense of ownership;
  • Join a cohesive environment that lets you learn, grow and encourages you to challenge;
  • Make no mistake we work hard but with perks ranging from 4 day working weeks in summer to team getaways and the obligatory snacks, we take care to enjoy life too;
  • And of course, we offer competitive compensation and benefits structure.

We give financial institutions a powerful competitive edge by allowing them rapidly create, launch and service any lending or deposit portfolio through a modern SaaS banking platform. Built from the cloud up, we are a powerful alternative to the costs and complexity of traditional core banking systems or custom in-house solutions.

IT
Amsterdam
300 employees