Agile Delivery Lead

What you will be doing

• Lead and facilitate Agile sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, and sprint retrospectives.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and other stakeholders to define and prioritize the team sprint backlog.
• Remove impediments and address challenges that hinder team progress, ensuring a smooth development and delivery process. This means following a solution-oriented approach that assures timely cross-team communication and effective dependency tracking.
• Provide guidance in epic and user story creation, estimation and acceptance criteria definition.
• Encourage teams to leverage the Organization Definition of Done, as well as develop a complimentary team-specific Definition of Done.
• Monitor dashboards for sprints, security tickets, and customer support tickets.
• Drive continuous improvement within the team together with the Engineering Manager.
• Lead and participate in Scrum of Scrum meetings relevant to the team's domain.
• Ensure the team backlog in Jira is always up to date.

• Champion Agile principles and methodologies, staying current with industry trends and best practices.
• Collaborate with other Agile Delivery Leads and management to refine and improve Agile practices and processes.
• Coach and mentor teams in Agile practices, emphasizing self-organization, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• With other Agile Delivery Leads, own Technical Program Management's Agile Ways of Working playbook.
• Establish and drive an incremental delivery mindset in the teams.

• Collaborate with the Release Manager to identify and plan maintenance, beta and early access releases.
• Support the Release Manager by providing timely updates on progress towards releases, whether incremental and launch-worthy.
• Ensure that teams follow release readiness guidance from the Release Manager.
• Support the Engineering Manager in monitoring and managing Product Pulse timelines / deadlines within the team.
• Work with the Engineering Manager to assess team capacity to that delivery timelines for epics and initiatives can be accurately forecast. Capacity assessment should include confidence level, risks, and unknowns.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager in managing stakeholder communication throughout a Product Development cycle.

What we will require of you

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technology field.
• 5+ years of experience in product delivery or technical program management, with a strong focus on Agile practices.
• Proven track record of coaching teams to continuous improvement through self-reflection.
• Experience in cross-team communication, and stakeholder management.
• Competence in a range of Agile methodologies, and flexibility in tailoring those methodologies to each team's unique needs and personality.

What we will love about you

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science or a related technology field.
• A natural ability to meet software developers where they are, and communicate empathetically.
• Prior experience in cloud computing and SaaS-based products.

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