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• Build strong, trusted relationships with business and customer groups and within the team, by helping the team to make their work transparent, and managing change as issues arise• Lead a continuous improvement culture, and reduction of waste• Lead the team to achieve continuous delivery and to build quality in supported platforms/systems• Ensure the team remains focused on priorities and aligned to strategy and roadmaps, and that backlog and release plans are maintained• Manage team capacity and demand with Product Owners and Delivery / Portfolio Managers• Support the team to communicate technical and quality priorities to the product owner(s) to ensure sufficient investment in the delivery capability• Liaise with other teams to ensure dependencies between teams are understood and managed• Manage operational risks and undertake delegated responsibilities, as required• Develop high quality, scalable and performant solutions• Taking ownership of deliverables and delivering within time frames• Work collaboratively with product/channel owners and the engineering team• Lead and coach the teams on agile techniques and practices• Manage and guide requirements and deliver outcomes based on agile principals, values and behaviors• Act as a gatekeeper and protect the engineering team from distractions• Manage and guide requirements in order to prevent continually changing requirements• Support and educate the product and channel owners on building and maintaining product backlogs• Build a high performing team.• Ownership of obstacles and blockers and use of continuous improvement techniques to remove bottlenecks in the delivery process• Ensure the team are able to support and maintain the products they deliver and own• Continuous learning and professional development on Iteration Manager capability• Experience with Jira software, Plutio, zohoprojects, asana, teamwork projects, Microsoft tools.• Provided Agile coaching & leadership to the Squad team members to embed the Agile values and practices.• Expert in Agile principles and frameworks: Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).• Experience in Insurance, Banking, Telecom, E-commerce, and other domains.• Working with Stakeholders and Product Owners in gathering business requirements, documentation, and SOW approvals.• Experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, Acceptance Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair working, Automated Testing, Agile Games.