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THE ROLE.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the Agile Delivery team. Reporting to the Head of Agile Delivery, you’ll be responsible and instrumental in helping achieve the organization’s goals to continuously improve agility.
In this role, you will work closely with our Platform Team, which is comprised of various subteams responsible for providing DevOps, engineering ops, and shared/core software components to our product development teams.
Along with the Head of Agile Delivery, you will support the Senior Director of Engineering and the Lead Engineers and Architects on these teams as they provide engineering support and collaborate on various internal projects.
You will work closely with these teams and their engineering leaders to identify current trends, improve processes, and curate meaningful reports to aid decision making. The ultimate goals are to improve collaboration between our Platform and product teams and to ensure key technologies and important engineering support is delivered effectively and efficiently while still maintaining great employee engagement. To do this, you’ll leverage your knowledge of agile working methods such as Scrum/Kanban, project management more broadly, and Software Development Lifecycles.
Where required, you will help perform training & coaching on Agile methodologies, running workshops and promoting a culture of collaboration and learning, with a goal of delivering agile best practices to enable high-performing teams to deliver maximum value to customers with minimum effort.
You will ensure clarity on the scope and priority of deliverables within the program, with the availability of realistic delivery plans, tracking, and reporting of deliverables by visually representing data to engineering and product leadership. You will proactively help with the successful delivery of deliverables on time and meet business objectives, maintaining delivery momentum, and actively addressing/flagging the risks and issues. You will also help manage dependencies and shared work streams across multiple agile teams
Finally, you will maintain an excellent overview of the product roadmap and delivery by actively listening, asking good questions, focusing on the details and the big picture, and providing updates on sprints, key features, releases and their timelines, people, top issues, and risks.
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The company.
Foundry has a 25-year heritage developing creative software for the Media and Entertainment industry and a portfolio of award-winning products. It advances the art and technology of visual experience with creative leaders around the globe, including major feature film studios and post-production houses such as ILM, DNEG, Pitch Black, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Wētā FX, Pixar, Marvel, Netflix, Framestore and Technicolor Creative Studios.
In partnership with these companies, Foundry solves complex visualization challenges to turn incredible ideas into reality. Its products are used to create breathtaking visual effects and animation on a wide range of feature films, episodic content and commercials.
Foundry software was integral in the making of every VFX Academy Award-winning film, TV show and commercial for the past decade and has been recognized and honored at the highest level in the industry, including four Academy Sci-Tech awards for Mari, Katana, Nuke and Furnace, two HPA Engineering Excellence awards for Flix and Nuke respectively, and an Engineering Emmy for Nuke.
Founded in 1996, Foundry is headquartered in London, with over 300 people worldwide and a presence in the US, Canada, China, Japan, Australia and Ireland.
For more information visit www.foundry.com.
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