Work with a team of technical professionals to deliver great business outcomes in an agile environment and support a technical community to develop their expertise to keep redefining what great looks like.

Join this dynamic and ever-evolving team. Lead by example and experience. Your chance to make this portfolio your own. Approximately 4- 8 direct reports and additional contract resources

About the Role

Some Key Responsibilities

• Accelerate delivery of work from READY to DONE with agile ways of working for the successful delivery of business outcomes

• Work with Product Owners and other Scrum Masters to driving prioritisation decisions and achieve the best mix of feasibility, desirability ,and viabilityMVP effectively for the sponsor

• Drive the fundamentals of iterative development, incremental delivery, value metrics, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition

• Build and maintain a smooth running a community of technical professionals with clarity on best practice and evolving standards that increase expertise and productivity software development and delivery team, and improving the operation of the team in line with Agile best practice.

• People management of the community team members including goal setting, performance reviews, development plans, recruitment and resolving any operational issues

• Own the technical roadmap for applications within the community and work as the business owner for the priortised technical initiatives

• Build project teams with high morale and a passion to excel and achieve project targets

• Capacity management and planning for internal and vendor community team members

About You

• Tertiary qualification in IT / Computer Science or business-related discipline

• Agile certification is desirable

• Demonstrated Success delivering projects using Agile methodology and inspiring and motivating a team to achieve outstanding results

• More than 5 years experience as a Project Manager/ Delivery Manager or as an Agile Coach, Iteration Manager or Senior Business Analyst

• Proven experience dealing with 3rd parties. Management of Vendors

• Proven People Leadership experience - managing a team within an Agile project environment

• Proven success in working with and across Business and IT delivery teams to deliver effective and cost-efficient technology-based solutions

Why choose AIA:

At AIA, we’ve made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives. And it starts with our own people.

• We invest in training and development to build on your current skills

• Career development through internal mobility opportunities

• Work for a business helping make positive health and wellbeing changes to the lives of New Zealanders

• Access additional leave days to recharge and refresh yourself

• Enjoy wonderful Health and Wellbeing initiatives that support you

• Work with supportive and inclusive managers

• Flexible working arrangements

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