Portfolio Lead

The Portfolio Lead is accountable for delivery performance across a sub-domain of 4-6 pods covering Engineering, Quality and Product. The role leads the flow of value from idea to production, ensuring pods deliver with pace, predictability and understanding of outcomes. It combines hands-on delivery leadership with AI-augmented ways of working and data-driven decision-making, adapting approaches to each pod's context rather than prescribing a single framework.

• Own delivery performance across a sub-domain of 4-6 pods and lead the flow of value from idea to production with pace, predictability and understanding of outcomes.
• Lead and communicate delivery health, risks and performance to leadership, and ensure cross-pod agreement on priorities, dependencies and shared goals.
• Ensure pods operate as self-organising units delivering value outcomes, and support pod leads through coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and knowledge sharing.
• Deploy root cause analysis, systems thinking and structured techniques to analyse and resolve cross-pod blockers and systemic impediments, identifying patterns that indicate deeper organisational or process issues.
• Champion AI agent adoption across pods, including coding agents, test generation, story creation, board health and deployment automation
• Apply AI to reduce toil, accelerate delivery, improve decision-making, workflow insights, risk prediction and reporting automation
• And track the impact on delivery performance.
• Monitor and improve delivery flow using Kanban and lean principles, including lead time, cycle time, WIP and throughput
• Ensure WIP limits are respected and surface ageing items through Board Walks
• Identify bottlenecks, ageing work and sources of delay
• And support teams in breaking work into deliverable, value-driven increments.
• Support and evolve the agile operating model for a pod-based environment focused on pace, adapting Kanban, flow-based and lean approaches while ensuring consistency of practice without being prescriptive.
• Promote outcome-driven delivery over output-driven activity and guide teams to operate with autonomy and accountability.
• Define and maintain delivery metrics such as cycle time, flow efficiency, lead time of initiative, PDLC compression, dependency reduction, rework rate, team satisfaction and AI effectiveness.
• Build dashboards such as cumulative flow diagrams, throughput charts and WIP ageing for leadership visibility and informed decision-making; analyse performance data to identify trends and patterns; and use data to facilitate conversations and coach pods.

• 7+ years in delivery or agile roles, with at least 3 years operating across multiple teams simultaneously in a technology environment.
• Expert in flow-based delivery approaches such as Kanban, lean and continuous delivery, not limited to Scrum.
• Experience enabling multiple teams or pods simultaneously at scale.
• Strong understanding of AI tooling and its application to software delivery, including coding assistants, automation and intelligent analytics.
• Experienced in capacity planning, demand forecasting and resource optimisation across multiple teams.
• Ability to use data to solve complex problems and to interpret and communicate complex data sets clearly.
• Previous experience of organisational transformation and change management.
• Good knowledge of Objectives and Key Results (OKR) strategy.
• Ability to embody the Maker Dimensions, selecting for capability rather than just competence, and to be versatile, curious and able to operate with autonomy in a high-trust environment.
• AI fluency: uses AI tooling, experiments and iterates with AI as a collaborator.
• Agency and accountability: owns outcomes, not just tasks, and directs itself.
• Systems thinking: sees patterns across pods and addresses causes, not symptoms.
• Stakeholder engagement: builds working relationships across pods and leadership.
• Improve performance: raises the bar through data and experimentation.
• Cross-functional versatility: comfortable operating beyond their primary discipline.

• Experience in a regulated industry such as gaming, fintech or a similar sector is desirable.

• A regular bonus
• Healthcare support
• A stake in the company's success through the ShareSave scheme
• Great development opportunities
• Wellbeing support
• Opportunities to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into prizes
• Being part of a winning team of talented people
• Being part of an inclusive and supportive community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves

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