Squad Leader

Description

Job Summary: A Senior Squad Lead serves as a balancing point among leadership, facilitation, and value delivery, ensuring team clarity, cadence, and alignment. Key Highlights: 1. Leadership and communication with external stakeholders. 2. Delivery and process management, removing impediments. 3. Fosters a safe, collaborative, and transparent environment. A **Senior Squad Lead** serves as a balancing point among leadership, facilitation, and value delivery. This professional ensures the team works with clarity, cadence, and alignment, fostering a collaborative and transparent environment. The Squad Lead connects clients, teams, and stakeholders, ensuring deliveries reflect the product’s purpose and business objectives. Although the primary focus is on coordination and operational leadership, we value analytical professionals capable of supporting business discussions and contributing to solution design alongside the Product Owner and Technical Architect. **Leadership and Communication** * Serve as the primary point of contact between the team and external stakeholders (clients, leadership, and partner areas). * Clearly communicate project progress, risks, decisions, and next steps. * Anticipate risks, negotiate deadlines, and ensure transparency in delivery progress. * Represent the team in meetings and ensure consistency between planned and executed work. **Delivery and Process Management** * Ensure planning and execution are visible and understood by all. * Track sprint goals, deadlines, and scope, highlighting deviations and changes when necessary. * Promote effective use of the board (Scrum/Kanban), keeping tasks updated and workflows transparent. * Monitor performance and predictability metrics (DORA Metrics, throughput, lead time). * Support the team in removing impediments and foster continuous improvement. **Collaboration and Business Alignment** * Support the Product Owner in backlog creation and prioritization. * Contribute to understanding the business model and clarifying functional rules. * In certain contexts, participate in business discussions and assist in defining solutions or workflows. * **Team Culture and Health** * Foster a safe, collaborative, and transparent workplace. * Promote autonomy with clear purpose, ensuring each person understands how their decisions impact team outcomes. * Facilitate feedback sessions, retrospectives, and continuous improvement practices. * Monitor and guide Individual Development Plans (IDPs) for team members, encouraging learning, growth, and alignment with company objectives. * Ensure sustainable cadence and balance between productivity and well\-being. **Planning and Operational Capacity** * Track personnel allocation and hours, ensuring team capacity aligns with demands. * Ensure consistency among planning, scope, and commercial budget. * Identify and propose adjustments in cases of overload, skill gaps, or underutilization.