Africa Agile Lead at Unilever

Main accountabilities:

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, refactoring current architecture, data governance inc. lineage, catalog and quality.
• Work with IT & D&A best practices such as version control, continuous integration and test driven development including Azure Dev Ops and Git.
• Ensure that deliverables meet or exceed functional, technical and performance requirements
• Contribute to the development of your own and team’s technical acumen
• Continuous learning of new tools & technologies via external sources that brings direct value to the business 
• Support & Uniops Teams to understand the Agile Frameworks while promoting collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement while empowering the team to make decisions and take ownership of their work.
• Preparation & facilitation of Scrum metrics presentations to senior management.
• Assist in educating, guiding & coaching Scrum Teams in building and improving on velocity.
• Help teams assess their ‘Scrum Maturity’ and achieve higher levels of maturity.
• Improve transparency within the teams.
• Assist in the removal of organisational impediments.
• Build a safe and trusting environment where conflict can be managed in a healthy way without fear of blame.
• Work closely with Directors and GM’s and senior Managers to find bottlenecks in delivery in teams with the use of analytics and encourage innovation.
• Keep abreast of Agile methodologies to promote ways to improve.
• Be a part of an Agile Team to share knowledge and brainstorm ideas.
• Manage/develop/improve on reporting and metrics for multiple Scrum Teams.
• Help the scrum team to improve their process by observing and providing regular feedback continuously
• Build relationships with Product Owners and other stakeholders to facilitate the team's interaction with them
• Mentoring and coaching Scrum team to install Agile values and principles and lead by example
• Keeping Scrum process on track and passing it to the team as self-organization matures
• Coordinating across other agile teams for complex projects
• Strengthen the presence of our team as an Agile Centre of Excellence in Africa
• Empower teams to self-organize
• Assist with the development of custom Agile training for scrum teams, product owners and scrum masters.
• Aid in the creation of an internal coaching program
• Track adoption of practices and processes.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED:

• Standards of Leadership Required in This Role
• Personal Mastery 
• Agility
• Passion for High Performance
• Business Acumen

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

• B.S. or M.S in a relevant field (Business Analytics, Operations Research), or PhD, M.S. in a relevant technical field (Operations Research, Computer Science, Statistics, Business Analytics, Econometrics, or Mathematics) 
• Overall experience of 10-15+ years preferred
• Experience with Azure cloud services (Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure DevOps, Azure Analysis Services and ADLS)
• Experience with Power BI (including Dax and M)
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
• Proven familiarity with Data Governance processes and managing data quality, access, lineage and profiling using automated testing and continuous integration where relevant.
• Preference for working knowledge of SQL, Python and Spark.
• Preference for working knowledge of architectures to support advanced analytics and data science