Agile Delivery Lead

Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About us:

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy.  We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.

‍We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better.  Our aim is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do.  Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.  

Role Purpose:

Hands on delivery leadership of digital initiatives across strategic changes, functional and feature changes across our Web and App, including interfaces with the BFF, UPAM and other systems.

• As an Agile Delivery Lead you will work within across one or more of our digital roadmap delivery horizontals. You will lead the delivery team, delivering using the right digital delivery Ways of Working.   
• You will own hands-on delivery for each Initiative assigned to the Squad, taking responsibility for end-to-end delivery from Idea through to Operate and measure.   
• You will be able to operate as a Servant Leader, Agile Coach, Scrum Master or Project Manager depending on the needs of the team and the specific Delivery challenge at the point in time.  
• You will contribute to the improvement of Delivery methodology within the Digital Factory, taking an active interest in developing Delivery tools and standards across the Digital Factory.  

Key Measures of Success:

• Team utilization – Resource allocation and cost control (internal and delivery partner)
• Plan and business case adherence - Delivery to Plan and Investment Case
• Velocity – Delivery throughput, deployment frequency, cycle time
• People Health – Work distribution and engagement scores
• People Health – Work distribution and engagement scores

Key Skills and Experience:

• You will be experienced and have a successful track record of delivering complex technology projects and programmes through multi-disciplinary teams using agile, lean software and design-thinking development methodologies.
• Must have the ability to deliver software solutions to time and quality and have the track record of doing so using multiple delivery partners.
• You thrive on responsibility and completing tasks in a timely manner with good, clear communication.
• You are equally comfortable working independently, and in a team to deliver excellence, working across boundaries and also within the Digital Factory.
• Your ability to set priorities and focus teams on what is most important whilst maintaining resilience under pressure.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to understand and relay strategic objectives and plans and drive alignment.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to explain complex technical challenges in a simple and effective manner.

Here is our list of benefits:

• 34 days paid leave (This includes bank holidays)
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: We’ll contribute 8.5%
• BUPA
• £500 wellness allowance
• Income Protection

As part of our onboarding processes, all successful candidates will need to complete both a Pre-Employment Screening process and a Fit & Proper check by the Gambling Commission. These checks include a DBS (an enhanced check, which shows convictions and conditional cautions), credit and social media checks. As part of our application process, you will be asked to identify in advance if you have spent or unspent convictions that we need to be aware of.

Should you not disclose convictions at the application stage, not pass the Fit & Proper Check process or not complete your Pre-Employment Screening then unfortunately you may not pass our probation process.

All data will be handled in accordance with our data policies and treated with utmost confidentiality.