RP International have partnered with a worldwide media outlet to shortlist for aDelivery Lead (Data Platform). This Delivery Lead position is a permanent hybrid working role based inLondonand offers a salary of up to£85kdepending on your experience and alignment to the role.

This exciting role is two-fold:

1. It will manage theorganisation-wide AI portfolioalongside Group’s VP of AI. This portfolio includes B2B and B2C customer-facing products, internal business tools, and strategic commercial plans.
2. It will plan, manage and deliver the roadmap for theML & NLP Data Platform squadin the engineering, data and product group, whose objective is to use data and machine learning to enhance the customer experience, optimise subscriber acquisition and retention, and improve editorial workflows.

You will work closely with the product managers, data engineers, QA and stakeholders in this team to ensure end-to-end delivery and continuous improvement of the Agile ecosystem. It is important you have experience working with scaled agile frameworks.

The product teams are a passionate group of digital professionals who manage the company’s customer-facing products and services. A multi-disciplinary team working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment, who value honest opinion and open debate. Who are in the business of building modern, state-of-the-art products, and delivering a first-rate user experience.

Accountabilities:

• Single-handedly lead and manage the organisation’s AI portfolio, as above, working alongside the VP of AI.
• Lead and manage the Data Platform squad. Perform the role of Agile Coach and Scrum Master for them.
• Deliver complex “end-to-end” initiatives that touch upon multiple Data, AI and non-Data teams.
• Review end-to-end delivery and agile ways of working to ensure the team is working optimally across product, design, engineering and QA.

Experience, skills and professional attributes

• Significant experience within B2C or B2B product development.
• Delivery experience working within Data teams. e.g. data analytics, metadata enrichment, data transformation, recommendations, ML/NLP.
• Experience coordinating and managing dependencies across multiple (including external) teams.
• Simultaneous management of multiple software development teams.
• Strong understanding of a variety of Agile approaches e.g. Scrum, Kanban, scaled Agile. Willing to not be prescriptive, and instead adapt ways of working.
• Use agile metrics (cycle time, throughput, Monte Carlo) to optimise team planning, estimation and ways of working.
• Advanced user of Google Suite (including Jira integrations), Miro for workshop facilitation, Jira and Confluence.

Submit your CV now for a confidential conversation!

Please note, this role does not offer sponsorship for the UK, thank you.