Solution Design Team Leader

• Is a recognised expert and leading performer in design craft in product .
• Delivers robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
• Delivers exceptional quality design projects covering product areas, whole products, or undefined spaces.
• Delivers high-performing, thriving and contented teams.

• Line manage solution designers, business analysts and/product owners
• Act as an expert in analysis and design in software product development
• Deliver robust and effective processes, practice, and strategy to enable individuals and teams.
• Define, embed, and drive continual improvement to processes and practice, operating on a scale beyond their team.
• Drive change, deliver major strategic projects, and provide thought leadership on major workstreams
• Effectively communicate organisational and process change at all organisational and individual levels.
• Influence stakeholders, leadership, and thought leaders through engagement and outreach, to deliver tactical advances.
• Be fluent with constructive challenge.
• Drive requirements gathering and analysis, solution ideation, iteration, and design decision-making with evidence and rationale

• A recognised expert in solution design/business analysis.
• A recognised expert in analysis and design standards, processes, industry best practice, and trends.
• Systems-level design thinker and visionary with strong instincts and outstanding intuition.
• Has an uncanny sense of design, acts as a fierce advocate for the user, and is committed to creating elegantly simple user experiences from otherwise complex workflows.
• Understands not just execution of analysis and design, but the business aspects of products as well.
• Expert knowledge of industry-standard tools.
• Shares knowledge, skills, and inspires other team members.

• Appropriate experience in defining effective high-level analysis and design processes, practice, and strategies.
• Ability to tailor textbook and industry-standard solutions to organisational and user context.
• Ability to operate with wide organisational scale and influence.
• Experience of influencing stakeholders and leadership to drive improvement.

• Appropriate experience of leading major projects and setting strategic direction.
• The ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
• Effectiveness in working across organizational boundaries to define, manage, and prioritize work.
• Develops processes for tackling problems using known methods; anticipates problems; develops facilitation skills to engage cross-functional teams.
• Handle uncertainty and acute challenges with grace and calm.
• Are proactive, goal-oriented, and go after exciting challenges, rather than only being reactive.

• Appropriate experience of people management and team leadership.
• Demonstrates exceptional people skills - communication, presentation, negotiation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Expert in both leveraging strengths, and developing people.
• Experience of successful performance management.
• Experience of recruitment.

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