Portfolio Lead

What you will do

• Pod Performance & Accountability

- You are responsible for pod delivery performance across the sub-domain. - Lead and communicate delivery health, risks and performance to leadership. - Ensure pods operate as self-organising units delivering value outcomes. - Support pod leads with coaching, facilitation and conflict resolution. - Ensure cross-pod agreement on priorities, dependencies and shared goals. - Facilitate communication and collaboration between pods to promote knowledge sharing.

• Problem Solving

- Deploy root cause analysis, systems thinking and structured techniques to analyse and guide out resolutions. - Be an escalation point for cross-pod blockers and systemic impediments. - Identify patterns across pods that indicate deeper organisational or process issues.

• AI-Augmented Delivery Champion

- Champion AI agent adoption across pods. - Identify opportunities where AI can reduce toil, accelerate delivery or improve decision-making. - Track and demonstrate the impact of AI on delivery performance.

• Flow & Efficiency

- Monitor and improve delivery flow using Kanban and lean principles. - Identify bottlenecks, ageing work and sources of delay across pods.

• Agile Ways of Working

- Support and evolve the agile operating model for a pod-based environment. - Ensure consistency of practice across pods without being prescriptive.

• Metrics & Reporting

- Define and maintain delivery metrics. - Build dashboards that provide leadership visibility. - Analyse performance data to identify trends, patterns and areas for improvement.

• Stakeholder Management

- Partner with Engineering and Product leadership at sub-domain level. - Communicate delivery performance to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Commercial Awareness

- Understand the commercial context of the sub-domain.

• Capacity Planning

- Forecast capacity across pods based on team composition, skills mix and upcoming demand.

• Risk & Dependency Management

- Manage risks through regular assessment and execution of controls.

• Coach & Capability Development

- Provide hands-on coaching at pod level.

• Outcome & Value Focus

- Align delivery to always ensure outcomes and value.

• Centre of Excellence (CoE) Contribution

- Be an active contributor to the CoE.

Qualifications:

• Specialist Experience

- 7+ years in delivery/agile roles, with at least 3 years operating across multiple teams simultaneously in a technology environment. - Expert in flow-based delivery approaches (Kanban, lean, continuous delivery). - Strong understanding of AI tooling and its application to software delivery. - Experienced in capacity planning, demand forecasting and resource optimisation across multiple teams.

• Competencies & Behaviours

- Versatile, curious, and able to operate with autonomy in a high-trust environment. - Owns outcomes, not just tasks; directs itself. - Comfortable operating beyond their primary discipline.

Additional Information Benefits

• Annual salary from €99,700.
• A regular bonus and great pension.
• €136 per month food vouchers.
• 25 days annual leave plus local public holidays.
• Extra paid leave, including wellbeing, development and life-event days.
• Life assurance and Income Protection.
• Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
• A stake in our success through our ShareSave scheme.
• Special offers / reductions: pharmacy, Magenta, Erste Bank.
• Equal Opportunities: We welcome applications from everyone and we do not discriminate based on any basis.