Squad Lead @MMCTech

Company:Mercer

Description:

THE ROLE & YOUR MISSION

• Run data project delivery for your Squad ensuring there are smooth and efficient processes for getting data infrastructure, flow, transformation, and visualization from requirements to working in production
• Identify and work to eliminate blockers
• Be responsible for ensuring your Squad is motivated, collaborative, efficient and empowered
• Deliver e2e working data deliverables for 1 or more products or solutions into production
• You will generally be responsible for 2-3 squads of between 6-15 people
• Have an Enterprise mind-set able to foster collaboration, break down silos, identify and work to remove blockers
• Be recognised as an Agile Expert intimately familiar with the processes and practices required for successful and sustainable delivery. Our main delivery methodologies are Scrum and Kanban
• Demonstrate proficiency in creating highly performing teams and take a hands-on approach where required
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle, DMBOK, Architecture, Test Engineering and Security best practice in an Agile environment
• Support the full lifecycle of a data product, considering tech debt, obsolescence, security and modernisation
• Ensure our Agile governance and ceremonies are in place and effective
• Plan product releases
• Ensure standard metrics are visible and actively being used to drive making choices
• Own the Continuous Improvement backlog for your squad. This is the key mechanism by which we deliver improvements for the following; time to market, efficiency and quality
• Provide coaching and support to your squad ensuring that they operate well as a team and foster a culture of ownership and respect.

YOUR EXPERIENCE & VALUES

• Experience and track record of successful delivery in a regulated, complex, multi-product technological landscape. We also have significant security processes and legislative requirements to protect our customers and their data.
• You will be expected to have a broad technical understanding to support your Agile credentials from data layer architecture through test, DevOps practices, security and operational run.
• A metrics-driven approach to delivery evaluation and drive out systems and processes that help define and report on the metrics we believe to be important
• Excellent stakeholder management skills. As we work to transform the Mercer IT and Business into a truly Agile organisation you will need to influence and coach senior executives, many of whom will be new to Agile
• Pods and squads are distributed globally and utilise a mix of permanent and partner staff who work largely remotely so experience of working with and motivating distributed teams is vital
• You will be collaborative, Inquisitive and interested in technology and best practices

Technical skills or qualifications required:

• Rounded and holistic understanding of Agile Methodologies such as CSP, KMP & ICP-ACC Certifications, PMP Certification, PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner, or their equivalent.
• 3-5 years' experience delivering technology projects to working software and/or data deliverables.
• Experience of a wide range of Technology project delivery roles is desirable, ideally with some form of data engineering, data visualization, or testing background.

OUR BENEFITS & CULTURE

• An opportunity to work in a fast-growing, innovative company with lots of room for progression and career growth;
• A fail-friendly environment that encourages learning and initiative;
• A yearly budget and the opportunity to build your flexible benefits package (up to 20% of your annual salary);
• 30+ days off (25 legal days off , 1 extra day off on your birthday, public holiday replacement days, extra buy/sell from your benefits budget);
• Performance Bonus scheme
• Matching charity contributions, charity days off, and the Pay it Forward charity challenge;
• Core benefits - Pension, Life and Medical Insurance, Meal Vouchers, Travel Insurance;
• We champion flexible working, and our mission is to help you find YOUR work-life balance, whether that's standard working, flex-time working, or working from home.

As a company we are committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. Our teams will jointly identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which the full team will be together in person. This unwavering policy is carefully crafted to enhance team unity, inspire creativity, and foster meaningful interactions between our colleagues, to help build our culture and local communities.

Founded over 20 years ago, Darwin's main ambition was to change the world of benefits. Fast forward to the present day and it is leading the way as a cornerstone benefits technology product in the Marsh McLennan, (MMC), Tech portfolio. MMC are now building out their EMEA Technology Hub in Cluj, Romania.

MMC is a global professional services firm, headquartered in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. It comprises the businesses of Marsh, Mercer, Guy Carpenter, JLT, Oliver Wyman and Darwin.

The regional hub will contain teams of Application Developers, Business Analysts, Project/Program Managers and other technology roles that require time zone overlap with clients in EMEA. As a regional hub we are equipped to scale our vast technical expertise through a variety of outputs, while helping to unleash our potential as one company, to effectively meet today's emerging challenges through the brilliant technology we build and deliver together.