AEM Team Lead at ShopriteX

Purpose of the Job

We are looking for an experienced team leader to manage our team and provide effective guidance to a small specialist team. You will be responsible for supervising, managing and motivating team members on a daily basis.

As a team leader, you will be the contact point for all team members, so your communication skills should be excellent. You should also be able to act proactively to ensure smooth team operations and effective collaboration.

The team lead will also facilitate SCRUM across the different systems teams within the delivery unit.

Job Objectives

• Ability to play multiple roles either as a Scrum Master on Agile scrum teams or can be flexible to play the role of project management in a traditional project environment depending on the need
• Focus on delivering fully tested, independent, valuable features across projects
• The ability to work within a team and provide mentorship
• The ability to manage multiple projects working towards the business objectives
• Manage team operations and processes
• The ability to challenge the team in accomplishing the business objectives
• Self-organising teams – manage the core principles of SCRUM
• Team autonomy
• Self-transcendence in pushing to achieve the objectives and constantly improve their practices
• Cross-fertilisation of the necessary disciplines across the teams
• Apply Agile best practices with the work environment
• Lead, motivate and support the team
• Drive team to set and meet goals/objectives
• Provide continuous feedback to team members
• Coach all team members and motivate them to produce desired results
• Create an environment or culture that is inclusive and that motivates and enables members to do their best work
• Enable close cooperation across all roles and functions
• The ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders, both internally and externally
• The ability to negotiate work for a given sprint
• Expert in people management
• Manage team performance
• Perform regular appraisal of team members' performance and devise strategies to help with improvement
• Identify training gaps and update their personal development plan

Qualifications

• Matric
• Tertiary equivalent experience or preferably, an ICT relevant diploma or degree from a recognised tertiary institution (Essential)

Experience

• 5+ years experience in building software applications
• 3-5 years Software development experience
• 3-5 years experience working within the IT industry (Essential)
• 3+ years experience with all aspects of IT projects from business analysis, architectures, system analysis and design through development, testing, implementation, and production support (SDLC) (Essential)
• 2+ years experience in all aspects of Agile methodology and SCRUM implementation (Desirable)

Knowledge and Skills

• Presentations skills
• Creative and analytical skills
• Commercial and business understanding of the broader retail industry
• Dynamic personality and the ability to think outside the box
• Excellent communication skills – written and oral
• Excellent organisation and facilitation skills
• Excellent team-working, interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills – Strategic thinker, people management
• Management skills - organizational, time management, delivery and planning management
• Strong conflict management skills
• Experience with the implementation of SCRUM in an organisation
• Persuading and influencing
• Applying expertise and technology
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Presenting and communicating information
• Relating and networking
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking