Agile Lead

Our team is dedicated to driving innovation and efficiency through restAPI development, managing the entire lifecycle of our applications, and empowering end-users with self-service solutions. Your expertise in agile methodologies will be instrumental in enhancing our collaborative efforts, streamlining our processes, and delivering high-quality results. We look forward to your leadership and the fresh perspectives you will bring to help us achieve our goals and continuously improve our workflows.

At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 34 markets and with 55 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

In this role, you will be responsible for enforcing Agile discipline, eliminate inefficiencies, and ensure teams consistently deliver high-value, high-quality products. You will lead highly structured daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and PI planning with precision and efficiency. Additionally, you will drive Agile maturity at product and platform levels, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.

You will manage the implementation of changes end-to-end, ensure clear communication to all impacted stakeholders and a thorough understanding of dependencies, deliverables, and issues. You will proactively identify potential roadblocks and championing scrum framework practices and Agile principles. You will drive Agile maturity at product and platform levels, ensure alignment with organisational goals. and analyse burn-down charts, velocity trends, cycle times, and lead times to optimise team performance.

What You Offer

• Strong expertise in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, or Disciplined Agile (DA) frameworks.
• Extensive experience leading Agile teams in highly regulated industries (e.g., Finance, Healthcare, Government, or Technology).
• Proven experience in Agile delivery models and mindsets
• Advanced knowledge of Jira, Jira Align, Confluence.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC), microservices, APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong stakeholder management skills to gain consensus and deliver outcomes.
• Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master (PSM) II or III is preferred but not required.
  
  

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

About Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.