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• Leading the Agile transformation for Digital Developers across multiple tribes/squads and locations.• Creation and growth of developer chapter community.• Collaboration with Tribe Leads, ensuring strategic vision and priorities are set, translating vision into staff skillset and capacity.• Consolidation of technical best practices, tooling and processes within the chapter.• Coordination of vulnerability remediation and risk process across supported applications.• Agile development plans, training and coaching for developers.• Collaboration with architecture team on technical roadmap and strategy.• Retirement of waterfall systems, processes and practices.• Creation of high-performing squads, embedding team culture and supporting employee retention.

• Managing a cross functional team residing in multiple geographical locations.• Coaching, mentorship and career development for direct reports.• Project delivery, including estimation, resource allocation, release planning and ensuring deliverables are met on time and to budget.• Participation in large scale global digital transformational projects, re-platform and modernisation of key applications and services, portal rebrand, and data centre migrations.• Building relationships with resourcing partners, enabling the team to flex up in-line with business demand and accelerate project delivery.• Supporting both internal and external audits including remediation of findings.• Ensuring risks are raised and recorded on the appropriate risk register, providing mitigation, action plans and timescales for resolution.• Incident management of critical production issues.• Reduction in security vulnerabilities by triage of issues flagged in third party code scans and PEN tests.• Managing team through organisational change with global and regional operating model changes. • Leading both permanent and contract-based employees.