What you will be doing:
The Agile Delivery Manager is a self-motivated and adaptable individual who plays a lead role in managing software development teams and initiatives. They understand the importance of cultivating good team dynamics between business stakeholders, Product, Technical Leadership, and the development team. They enjoy organizing work and coaching teams to define vision and value and the many details of build, release, and follow-up. This role balances technical knowledge with strong communication and organizational skills, allowing them to make a significant impact in the company and with our clients. This role would suit somebody with previous experience in a Scrum Master, Agile Delivery, or Technical Project Manager role.
In this role you will:
- Manage initiatives and multiple development teams with agile and project management methodologies from discovery through to delivery with assigned teams.
- Lead collaborative and detailed delivery cycles and large initiative planning that merges product/engineering requirements with company goals and coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases from initial discovery through to development and release.
- Monitor cycle delivery and larger initiative progress continuously and make detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and releases.
- Measure team performance, create transparent reporting, and work to improve.
- Measure and monitor team dynamics and performance and provide agile coaching and training to improve.
- Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide stability in the process, a sense of urgency, encouragement to team members, identify impediments/blockers/distractions, work to create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
- Coach Product, Technical leadership, team members, and business leaders on agile methodologies.
- Hold the team accountable for their responsibilities in defining initiative readiness and vision, user story writing, story mapping, prioritization techniques, technical solutioning, software build, acceptance, feedback loops, etc.
- Manage proposed modifications on changes to delivery plans with stakeholders to review, analyze impact, approve and implement beneficial changes.
- Lead all Agile ceremonies, including but not limited to daily standup, refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, demonstrations, and retrospective, release planning.
- Lead cross-functional teams to manage product releases/system upgrades that deliver the app vision.
What you’ll bring:
- Courses and certifications like Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Kanban-EXP, Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (ACM), scaled agile (SAFe (SA), LESS), Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) I and II. PMI ACP, Certified Discipline Agilist (CDA), PMP (Project Management Professional).
- Minimum 1-3 years of experience using agile and project management tools and methods: Jira Scrum/Kanban, Agile Roadmap and Gantt charts, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat tools.
- Technical background with knowledge of software development and web/mobile technologies.
- Minimum 2-3 years project management/scrum master experience in software development.