Overview

Position Title: Delivery Lead

Company: Pets at Home

Location: Swindon, UK

Job Description:

As the Delivery Lead, you will be you will be accountable for the software development and leading the delivery team and whilst also facilitating conversations and engagements between the development team and their stakeholders to deliver the new Petcare digital platform.

Requirements:

  • In depth knowledge of SCRUM and other agile lifecycles such as Kanban.
  • Proven experience of working in an agile software development environment to deliver software products
  • Experience of presenting to technical and non-technical audiences both in small interactive sessions and larger group settings.
  • Experience of working with CI/CD pipelines and establishing good development practices.
  • Experience of working with teams using automated testing frameworks and techniques such as TDD.
  • Proven experience managing software development teams.

About Pets at Home

Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our stores, Groom Rooms, Distribution Centres and Support Office.
We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets4Pets practices and Groom Room salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.
Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.
Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!
If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/