Agile Delivery Lead

Deimos is a Cloud-native Developer and Security Operations technology services company.  We help companies of all sizes adopt the Cloud for improved service delivery to their clients. We’re a fully remote African-based team of engineers who are passionate about implementing engineering best practices. We leverage the latest technologies while building globally competitive solutions for our clients. With Deimos being one of the two moons of Mars, we refer to ourselves as “Martians” who are on a mission to Mars, together. 

Our teams value the ability to learn and adapt to technology changes while appreciating solid foundational design and the craft of software engineering. As such our engineers enjoy working with various clients who have different problems to solve. If this sounds like you then you would be an ideal fit for our environment. However, you must be based in one of the countries we currently hire in which are as follows: Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa.

Role Overview

As the Agile Delivery Lead, this role is at the forefront of both product design and project management, collaborating with key clients to ensure alignment between client expectations and internal delivery, from inception to the completion of a project. 

The Agile Delivery Lead is accountable for maximizing the value of the product created by the engineering project team, as well as driving agile (scrum and kanban) practices within teams, while the project manager component encompasses traditional project management aspects, which consist of reporting, budgeting, capacity, risk and client management.  

This role forms part of the Delivery Team and came about due to a specific need at Deimos whereby one highly capable Delivery Team member is able to be fully accountable for the delivery of a project in its entirety - i.e. where the delivery aspects are not split across the roles of scrum product owner and agile project manager.

What you will be doing:

1. Product Ownership

• The Product Owner can be described as “the CEO of the product”, and is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the scrum team

• This translates into:

  • Leading the product functional design process with key client stakeholders, showcasing product, design and technical ability.

  • Leading requirement gathering sessions to extract client requirements.

  • Collaborating with key clients and internal teams to define product roadmaps, giving input into the product vision and strategy.

  • Positively influencing and guiding the overall product design, featureset and usability.

  • Translating product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including epics, user stories/ tasks, and acceptance test criteria.

  • Maintaining and prioritising the product backlog (roadmap items, bugs, change requests, etc).

  • Being an exceptional story creator with strong Jira expertise.

  • Collaborating in an agile environment and continuously reviewing client business needs, refine priorities, milestones and deliverables, identifying opportunities and risks, while working closely with Delivery and Engineering leadership.

  • Ensuring that product delivery is on time and within budget, supporting the leadership team.

  • Collaborating with the engineering team to deliver stellar products that exceed customer expectations.

  • Understanding, driving and participating in various agile ceremonies:  backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective.

  • Collecting and sharing the appropriate data, driving data-driven decision making.

2. Project Management 

• Plan, manage and drive project delivery, ensuring projects remain within scope, timeline and budget

• Ensure projects are properly resourced, and that resource requirements are communicated promptly and understood by the client and the Deimos team

• Schedule and facilitate all project meetings and Agile ceremonies

• Participate in scoping sessions, and prioritise delivery with clients

• Facilitate and gather effort estimates from the team to produce cost estimates and timelines

• Facilitate communication between the client and Deimos to resolve any dependencies and impediments

• Identify and manage risks and ensure any concerns are escalated via the appropriate channels

• Establish, gather, analyze and report on key KPIs to measure the overall success of the project delivery, as well as the team’s effectiveness

3. Leadership and Account Management

• Be a Deimos brand ambassador - know and live the Deimos values

• Collaborate and lead multiple technical projects of varying size and complexity, alongside each project’s leadership team, from proposal through discovery to delivery

• Own and manage multiple products simultaneously

• Represent Deimos in all client engagements and interactions - speaking on behalf of the company and the brand

• Focus on stellar delivery in all engagements, both large and small

• Understand each clients’ business, their strategy (both short and long term) and build strong relationships and rapport with client teams and individuals

4. Agile

• Understand the Scrum framework as defined in the most recent version of the Scrum Guide

• Certain team and / or projects may also use Kanban due to the nature of the deliverables or the client interaction approach

• Facilitate and guide teams w.r.t. the various Scrum values, events and artifacts, i.e. step in and provide guidance to ensure that teams know how to Scrum effectively

• Lead and provide input into the standard Scrum events:  

  • Prepare the product backlog

  • Lead backlog grooming sessions

  • Lead sprint planning 1 sessions

  • Be available to provide input at sprint planning 2 sessions

  • Lead the sprint review

  • Participate in the sprint retrospective

• Understand successful delivery using kanban and guide the team to use kanban best practices

• Help the team resolve impediments and resolve client bottlenecks

What you must have

• 5+ years in agile project management or product ownership, with experience in partnership, reseller, or value-added services environments.

• Strong understanding of agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).

• Financial acumen with proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, and resource management within a partnership-driven business model.

• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a remote and fast-paced environment.

• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with both internal teams and external partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications in Agile or Project Management (e.g., PMP, CSM, CSPO, or SAFe).

• Experience in the reseller ecosystem, partnership structures, or cloud-native environments.

• Familiarity with financial and operational reporting, enabling projects to meet profitability and efficiency targets.

Qualities & Behaviours

• Results-driven, proactive, and solution-oriented with a focus on driving success in the reseller ecosystem.

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with an ability to adapt to changing priorities and maintain productivity under pressure.

• Self-motivated, working effectively independently and collaboratively to support the Reseller department’s objectives.

• Organised and capable of managing competing priorities while fostering strong team collaboration and stakeholder relationships.

About you

For us to achieve our ambitious vision together as a team, It is important for our Martians to lead at all levels, be self starters who take initiative and put their hands up for challenging tasks. A growth mindset is important to us and we encourage all our Martians to openly share knowledge, support and help each other, ask questions, get creative with new technologies and learn from setbacks.

Becoming a Martian means:

• Comfortably working and learning from a fully remote, culturally diverse team based predominantly in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.

• Being an open, honest and respectful communicator.

• You enjoy asking questions, identifying areas of improvement and proposing solutions, no matter your job title or whether you have been with us for a day, a month or years!

• You are comfortable taking initiative and operating independently.

• You thrive in a fast paced environment, where change is constant.

• You find it exciting to work with various clients, from different industries, each with a different problem for you and your team to solve.

• Intentionally sharing tech and industry trends that excite you with your peers.

• Seeking continuous feedback and actively taking steps to continuously grow personally and professionally.

Want to know what you get by joining us?

• Become a member of a team where we value each individual's contribution from day 1 and empower you to make suggestions, get involved and do what you love most!

• Flexibility and the freedom to work remotely.

• Work-life balance where you are not expected to work over weekends or after hours.

• A forward thinking remote company that knows how important it is to stay connected as one team, by providing virtual social platforms for employee engagement.

• A monthly work from home allowance which you can use to set yourself up to work comfortably from home. Whether that is pens, notebooks, new headphones or work snacks!

• A MacBook or Windows laptop for you to do your best work on.

• Become part of a team of exceptionally clever and talented people who like to share their knowledge and learnings.

• We support your career growth and love to celebrate your successes and advancement!