Skills:

• Scrum
• ADL
• Agile
• Jira/Confluence
• Kanban – nice to have
• Project management exp
• Software development exp

Job Description: 

Agile Delivery Lead

In the Agile Delivery Lead role, you’ll ensure your teams’ delivery success by leveraging the appropriate Agile methodology to enable predictable, quality delivery while maintaining a focus on the continuous improvement of the team. The Agile Delivery Lead

will optimize team productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team’s goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes on the team.

General Responsibilities:

Delivery

Supports one or more software engineering teams through Kanban/Scrum Agile methodologies

Ensures team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery

Provides visibility into delivery targets, commitments, and progress

Is well managed – understands and coaches the team on delivery controls, compliance to minimize operational, and reputational risk

Understands domain architecture and targets to identify upstream and downstream dependencies and to support the team in risk management

Proactively identifies impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)

Supports Release Train Engineers, Product & Tech Teams to remove impediments and manage dependencies for delivery

Coaching

Integrates Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products

Coaches Product Owner and team on backlog refinement and prioritization

Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve

Innovates with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery

Developing understanding and encouragement of team’s engineering innovation and improvement (engineering practices, DevOps, etc.)

Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organization

Developing ability to act as an Agile mentor and coach to other Scrum Masters or any Agile role

Agile and Technical Learning: Actively seeks and participates in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training, and independent study to further develop self and community

Communicates with leaders across the organization on a regular basis to ensure transparency into delivery, risks, issues, etc.

Basic Qualifications:

At least 3 years of experience as an Agile Scrum Master

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree

2+ years of experience with Jira, Jira Align, or Confluence

5+ years of experience as an Agile Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or PMI’s Agile Certified Professional (ACP) certification

SAFe certified or experience (or other scaled agile frameworks)