Posting End Date:

September 14, 2023

Join John Lewis or Waitrose today

If you've ever stepped through the doors of a John Lewis or Waitrose shop, shopped online, or seen any of our adverts, you'll know there's something unique about us.

That unique proposition is our Partners. As co-owners they have a say in our business and receive a share of the profits, so they put time and effort into making it work. Our Partners are the reason we're the success we are. They're our secret sauce; the opportunity for us to differentiate.

Job Summary:

At a glance

Working location - This is a hybrid working role. Your time will be split
between working from home and the London/Bracknell Head Office. You will
primarily be able to choose your working location preference e.g.
predominantly from home, however, there will also be an expectation to visit
the London/Bracknell office or other locations as the need arises.

Working pattern/flexible working - Although the role is full time, we are fully
open to considering part time and/or flexible working options. Please state
your preference in your application and discuss this with the Hiring Manager
at the interview stage.
Salary range - The salary range for this role is set at £55,800 - £90,000
Contract type - This is a permanent role.
What's the role about?
We have exciting opportunities for talented Agile Delivery Leads to join the John Lewis Partnership.
You will be working within one of our Agile delivery teams across either John Lewis or Waitrose,
where we continue to make significant investment in developing our technology capabilities, skills
and underpinning technologies. We have a strong in-house engineering capability which has been at
the heart of our move onto a cloud-hosted micro-service orientated platforms to exceed our
customer expectations and deliver to our Partnership Plan.
Working with Product Managers and Engineering teams, you will be instrumental in taking products
from their conception through to implementation, utilising your passion for delivery and technology.
You will have an excellent understanding of agile frameworks and how to define and deliver solutions
interactively and collaboratively in order to achieve business outcomes and value.
What you'll be doing as a Delivery Lead
As an experienced Delivery Lead, you will be confident and resilient and thrive in a high paced
environment, with a focus on quality, ensuring the delivery aligns with the needs of the business,
whilst also being supportable and maintainable.
● Driving our product delivery through working closely with Product and Engineering to
release value as early as possible.
● Work collaboratively with the teams to release software to Production in a regular and
controlled manner, ensuring it is monitored, and helping the team plan for issues which may
arise from changes to the software.
● Have a curiosity and understanding of the technology stacks the team are developing in
order to add value to decision making in the team.
● Facilitate agile events and champion agile best practice, coaching and mentoring the team
utilising key metrics to provide predictability and high performing teams.
● Quickly surface challenges, working with the team to resolve impediments so that they can
focus on delivering value iteratively
What you'll have or are working towards
We believe that each Delivery Lead is individual and promote people to bring new experiences and
ways of doing things to the role, although it would be great if you have some of the following:
● Passion for building and developing high performing, cross functional, digital teams.
● Deep understanding of Retail IT Delivery in a lean and agile environment
● Understanding of cloud and microservice technology
● Working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean and DevOps frameworks.
What do we offer
You will be joining part of a great team, who have a real passion for their profession, delivery and
working for two great brands and you will have a ‘home’ location of either our Head Offices in
London, Victoria or Bracknell.
Although assigned to a Head Office the Partnership encourages a blended working approach to work
flexibly from home and across the Bracknell and London sites, depending on the needs of the role -
blended working gives the trust to go where the work takes you.
We also have a great benefits package, including the following:
● Blended Working
● Discount at both John Lewis & Waitrose
● 25 days Holiday
● Exclusive use of Partnership Hotels
● Equal Parental Leave
● Bonus
● And much more…..

Job Description:

What's the role about?

We have exciting opportunities for talented Agile Delivery Leads to join the John Lewis Partnership.

You will be working within one of our Agile delivery teams across either John Lewis or Waitrose, where we continue to make significant investment in developing our technology capabilities, skills and underpinning technologies.

We have a strong in-house engineering capability which has been at
the heart of our move onto a cloud-hosted micro-service orientated platforms to exceed our customer expectations and deliver to our Partnership Plan.

Working with Product Managers and Engineering teams, you will be instrumental in taking products from their conception through to implementation, utilising your passion for delivery and technology.

You will have an excellent understanding of agile frameworks and how to define and deliver solutions interactively and collaboratively in order to achieve business outcomes and value.

What you'll be doing as a Delivery Lead

As an experienced Delivery Lead, you will be confident and resilient and thrive in a high paced environment, with a focus on quality, ensuring the delivery aligns with the needs of the business, whilst also being supportable and maintainable.
● Driving our product delivery through working closely with Product and Engineering to release value as early as possible.
● Work collaboratively with the teams to release software to Production in a regular and controlled manner, ensuring it is monitored, and helping the team plan for issues which may arise from changes to the software.
● Have a curiosity and understanding of the technology stacks the team are developing in order to add value to decision making in the team.
● Facilitate agile events and champion agile best practice, coaching and mentoring the team utilising key metrics to provide predictability and high performing teams.
● Quickly surface challenges, working with the team to resolve impediments so that they can focus on delivering value iteratively

What you'll have or are working towards

We believe that each Delivery Lead is individual and promote people to bring new experiences and ways of doing things to the role, although it would be great if you have some of the following:

● Passion for building and developing high performing, cross functional, digital teams.
● Deep understanding of Retail IT Delivery in a lean and agile environment
● Understanding of cloud and microservice technology
● Working knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean and DevOps frameworks.

What do we offer

You will be joining part of a great team, who have a real passion for their profession, delivery and working for two great brands and you will have a ‘home’ location of either our Head Offices in London, Victoria or Bracknell.

Although assigned to a Head Office the Partnership encourages a blended working approach to work flexibly from home and across the Bracknell and London sites, depending on the needs of the role - blended working gives the trust to go where the work takes you.

We also have a great benefits package, including the following:
● Blended Working
● Discount at both John Lewis & Waitrose
● 25 days Holiday
● Exclusive use of Partnership Hotels
● Equal Parental Leave
● Bonus
● And much more…..

Pay Range:

£55,800.00 up to £90,000.00 Annual

Scheduled Weekly hours:

35

Worker Type:

Permanent Partner

Job Level:

Partnership Level 6

Hours of Work:

35

At the John Lewis Partnership, we embrace our differences. We want you to be you. Because, well, we know you're at your best when you're free to be yourself.

Being a truly inclusive employer to us means creating an environment which celebrates your contribution, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. It's why we've set our own aim to become the UK’s most inclusive business - for our Partners (employees) and our customers.

We firmly believe that our future success lies in diversity of thought from all Partners and it's integral in our mission to build a happier world. ? ?

We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. And, once you're a Partner, your differences will make all the difference.

Find out more about D&I in the Partnership here.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where it is possible to do so. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

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