Betfair advertising lots of tech jobs in Romania

Optimisation Agile Coach means someone is justifying their own job by making up stupid job titles. Moving to a poor country =- cheap wages?

I am studying Rumanian in order to speak to Customer Services. English hasn't been much good for years.

Cheap wages in Romania? The posh term is labour arbitrage.

Agile is the jargon word for a fashionable way of working in IT. Coach implies they want someone to set it up and explain it to the other wage slaves. Agile has long been used in development with stand-ups and scrum masters, but is now being spread to operations, with names like tribes and squads. Ah -- here is an explanation from a job advert posted by Paddy Power for the same role in London.

www.reed.co.uk/jobs/optimisation-agile-coach/35788891

As part of the CTO Strategy & Optimisation function, we are looking for an exceptional agile minded candidate to lead game-changing operational improvements for Paddy Power Betfair. As an optimisation coach, you will partner with teams across Technology to deliver improvements to the way they work with the ultimate goals of accelerating delivery and improving quality. Utilising your strong understanding of product discovery, you will pro-actively promote an evidence-driven culture of learning across the company in conjunction with key stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Act as a change champion, using knowledge of our operating model to drive a culture of Continuous Improvement within Technology

Coach teams in product discovery and dual-track agile product development

Optimise, align and improve processes and culture across Technology, coaching teams on user centred design thinking and hypothesis driven development

Partner with Heads of Tribes and Shared Services to drive improvement and to enable the Technology Organisation to achieve its target outcomes

Take charge of demand management, to support Tribe and Shared Services development against the operating model maturity matrix

Guide and mentor multiple teams in the consistent practice of Agile concepts, including roles, ceremonies, processes and tool usage

Provide coaching and mentoring to teams and management on the healthy use of metrics and continuous improvement techniques

Behavioural Competencies

Collaboration: A strong team player with a collaborative style and a proven track record of effectively delivering

Ability to drive change: The ability to gain trust and buy-in with ease across the company, drive for results and is action oriented in approach, pursing work with energy and drive

Excellent communication skills: Ability to communicate credibly and effectively across a range of channels and audiences

Being Resilient: Resilient and confident under pressure and maintains a positive attitude despite adversity

Business Insight: Use knowledge of business drivers and how strategies and tactics play out in the market to guide actions

Technical Competencies, Qualifications & Experience

Deep, expert-level knowledge of Agile, Lean Sigma and Continuous Improvement methodologies

Experience leading Agile transformation initiatives (as a Coach / SME), and strong experience of overall Agile/Scrum

Background utilising agile/lean software development frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Extreme Programming, SAFe, Kanban Visualization)

Familiar with Agile delivery toolsets (e.g. JIRA, Agile Central, TFS, etc)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Strong facilitation, leadership, and relationship building skills

Paddy Power Betfair plc is an international sports betting and gaming operator, with a market-leading presence in the UK, Ireland, Australia and the USA, as well as a range of operations across Europe including Romania, Portugal and Malta.

We operate five sports betting and gaming brands; Paddy Power, Betfair, Sportsbet, FanDuel and TVG. We are online-led, mobile-led and sports-led: and our proprietary technology, unique products and innovative marketing all combine to offer a superb experience to our five million customers worldwide.

Our spirit, talent and ambition has taken us into the FTSE 100 index of the London Stock Exchange and we now employ over 7,000 people in sixteen locations across the globe; from Dublin to Los Angeles, and London to Melbourne. Our culture rewards innovation, teamwork and we like to stay fast-moving in a dynamic industry.


https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/optimisation-agile-coach/35788891

Lol, thanks Ramruma.

Great reply Ramruma;am so glad i'm retired and not having to interpret/understand such nonsense.

Can't really believe a human being can write such stuff.

God they don't half use some waffling rubbish to advertise for jobs these days.

They might has well advertise in Rumania because it makes little sense in English.

Optimise, align and improve processes and culture across Technology, coaching teams on user centred design thinking and hypothesis driven development

Partner with Heads of Tribes and Shared Services to drive improvement and to enable the Technology Organisation to achieve its target outcomes.




If only I had learnt a second language.

Can't stand all the jargon nonsense for some reason people that use it think they're more intelligent.

Apparently if you get the job in Romania and you work 14 hours a day for 6 days you would have enough to buy your family a McDonalds meal on the 7th day.

Passion is the big word in job ads these days.  The company is passionate and they are looking for people who are passionate.  Doesn't matter what the job is; wiping old peoples arses, picking dog ends out of the urinal, its gotta be your passion or your not getting the job.

^^