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Closing Date: 16-Dec-2024

Our Purpose
Working in Partnership for a happier world – our shared Purpose that guides us in everything we do and inspires 3 important principles; happier people, happier business, happier world. The John Lewis Partnership is a truly unique business, one that seeks to make a positive difference to the lives of everyone.
At a glance
Hybrid Working - This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will primarily be split between working from home (in the UK) and Bracknell / London Head Office.
There is no fixed rule, but to collaborate with the team and attend important meetings in person, it is anticipated that you will need to be in the office or visiting other locations occasionally, as required. There will also be a need to visit other locations occasionally, as required.
Contract type - Permanent
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 platform 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.
Additional Information
The application form consists of a CV upload, followed by application questions. Please visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/how-to-apply/journey/ to understand more about application and hiring process.
Internal applicants please copy paste this link on to the browser for job outline -https://bit.ly/DLJLPPL6
Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, will include an initial screening formal interview.
You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
Benefits:
💻 - Hybrid Working.
⚖ - Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our market leading  Equal Parenthood Leave Policy
🏖️ - Depending on your Partnership job level, if you work full time you’ll get between 22 and 30 days holiday a year, plus bank holiday entitlement
🐷 - The Partnership has a Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions, up to an agreed level, will be matched by the Partnership. In addition, after a qualifying period of service you may receive an additional Partnership contribution.
🤑 - You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete Probation. That’s 25% off in John Lewis & Partners (12% off electrical products) and 20% in Waitrose & Partners. You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount
🚴 -  Simple cycle to work support scheme
🏰 - We’re really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain’s most beautiful areas and once you’ve been with us for three months, you’re welcome to explore them
🌱 - Learn more about our Benefits structure, visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

Skills Required

Devops
Agile
Cloud

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