Delivery Lead - Full-time

Candidates must be willing to be onsite at least Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. They will have the option to work from home on Monday and/or Thursday.

Length of contract: 12 months, potential RTH after 4 months

Job Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a Project/Program Manager/Scrum Master/Agile Lead/Delivery Lead/Delivery Manager role
• Proven experience in Agile or adaptive development methodologies with the ability to facilitate agile ceremonies
• Experience with software release management and understanding of software releases
• Excellent communication skills, can represent and speak for the team during meetings
• Experience tracking risks, status and dependencies and ensuring mitigation across organizational boundaries
• Experience with delivering presentations to senior level executives and technical audiences

Job Duties:

Delivery

• Lead teams to deliver projects and initiatives across the company's technical solution portfolio.
• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Apply delivery management and systems development lifecycle processes to all information technology projects and initiatives from the original concept through the final implementation.
• Communicate delivery expectations and progress as compared to delivery expectations to team members and stakeholders.
• Estimate, negotiate, and prioritize resource availability and allocation.
• Manage information technology project reporting.

Reporting

• Provide status reporting regarding delivery milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, and communicate across leadership.
• Lead the oversight of deliverables including their progress compared with the plan and the production of agreed deliverables.
• Report on work results through standardized team metrics.
• Build custom reports in Jira. Visualize and analyze Jira metrics to measure the work and business/ team KPIs using the eazyBI tool.
• Assist business partners to enhance operational efficiency, reduce operational risk/cost, and optimize work through adaptive processes.

Coaching and Mentoring

• Challenge, coach, and guide the organization using agile and lean principles.
• Provide team leadership by building and motivating the team to meet project goals, adhering to responsibilities and project milestones.
• Facilitate the day-to-day activities and deliverables including Agile ceremonies, work breakdown and sequencing, task estimation, and schedule creation.