About Blip
Blip is a leading tech company that specializes in software engineering solutions for sports entertainment. We operate at scale and are an essential part of Flutter Entertainment's goal to become the global leader in online sports betting and iGaming. Our products and platforms serve over 14 million monthly customers worldwide.
We prioritize flexibility, technological excellence, and people-first mindset. Our culture values uniqueness, diversity, and inclusion, creating a sense of belonging among our team members.
The Role: Delivery Lead
The Delivery Lead will focus on making software delivery happen within an engaged, supported, and motivated team environment. They will provide transparency, facilitation, and optimization of the product and software delivery machine within a value stream to ensure maximum effectiveness of the squads within the value stream.
The role will optimize the delivery lifecycle to enable regular release of value, bring predictability to change, and ensure delivery balances product, engineering, quality assurance, service operations, and architectural goals.
The role will work in close partnership with the Engineering Manager, Quality Assurance, Product Manager, Architect/Principal Engineer, and Service Operations to manage transformation and continuous improvement for their value stream and the squads within.
Key Responsibilities:
* Enable and support autonomous squads to be maximally effective through transparent, objective measurement, and action.
* Emphasize the importance of teaching and helping others to help themselves.
* Manage dependencies, go/no-go decisions, and delivery forecasting and metrics (e.g., Cycle Time).
* Teach the effective operation of delivery (inc. stand-ups, retrospectives, etc.).
* Work in close partnership with Senior Engineering Manager and Lead Product Manager to manage transformation and continuous improvement for their value stream.
* Coach Engineering Manager and Product Owner in transformation and continuous improvement of their squads.
* Provide transparent delivery roadmaps and delivery health for the value stream to the Tribe.
* Forecast and communicate delivery dates and delivery health regularly to the Tribe and stakeholders.
* Champion a continuous improvement culture within and between value streams, leveraging transparent metrics including productivity, predictability, people engagement, and quality.
* Advocate for the importance of removing waste, balancing workload, and improving dependency processes within and outside the team.
What You'll Bring:
* Commercially Savvy: Be aware and anticipate emerging external factors and changing market dynamics.
* Wins Together: Gain trust and support of others, generous with time, advice, and knowledge.
* Game Changer: Take smart organizational risks to drive game-changing innovations.
* Effective Communicator: Provide clarity on business goals and adjust communication style to fit the audience.
* Quality Decision Maker: Make quality, long, and short-term decisions at pace considering various inputs.
Requirements:
* Demonstrated leadership and problem-solving skills.
* Prior delivery manager/lead experience.
* An eye for continuous improvement needs and frameworks to enable improvement.
* Experience working in software delivery and understanding the delivery process.
* Ability to engage with and get the best out of people in teams.
* Ability to work through a large set of unknowns and translate them into effective plans.
* Experience of leading teams (or virtual teams) and developing talent.
* Strong knowledge of sports betting and trading technology environments and the products that are built thereon.
About Us
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking, and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role.