Agile Delivery Lead

We are looking for an experienced Senior Agile Delivery Lead to provide software product delivery servant leadership for teams creating our robust suite of cloud-native enterprise applications in the rapidly growing healthcare software industry. If you have a passion for applying Lean-Agile principles to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement, this position is a great fit.

Job Summary: As a Senior Agile Delivery Lead, you will apply Lean-Agile principles to help drive teams with a focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement. You will serve as a mentor and coach on Lean-Agile theory, principles, and best practices, and you will be responsible for facilitating ceremonies, removing obstacles, and fostering a culture of collaboration and teamwork.

Your Responsibilities:
• Serve as the Agile Delivery Lead for one or more teams.
• Facilitate ceremonies (e.g., daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demos/retrospectives).
• Collect and present metrics in various formats for different audiences.
• Identify, develop, and use data to create actionable plans for optimization and improvements.
• Serve as a mentor and coach on Lean-Agile theory, principles, and best practices.
• Remove obstacles and roadblocks to maintain the development flow.
• Be a source of inspiration and foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork.
• Own creation, management, and delivery of the end-to-end engineering plan for the product.
• Maintain a safe environment where everyone feels respected, empowered, and free to express their constructive thoughts and feelings.

Required Experience/Skills:
• 8+ years of experience coaching Lean-Agile principles for development teams.
• Experience coaching teams developing cloud-native, scalable, and highly available distributed systems.
• Advanced knowledge of Lean-Agile practices, metrics, and KPIs.
• Advanced knowledge of Kanban or Scrumban processes.
• Advanced ability and experience with tools such as JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence, etc.
• Drive the creation of information radiators and promote metric establishment and visibility.
• Advanced time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines and best practices for teams.
• Openness to new ideas, mentor, coach, and train others to learn new things.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, a positive mindset, and a collaborative spirit.
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills to help drive solutions.

Desired Experience:
• Experience with a team using TDD/BDD/DDD.
• Rollout and mentoring of advanced concepts such as scaling Agile (e.g., SAFe) across teams and groups, including the ability to teach others.
• Technical depth to understand technical patterns and practices that enable agility.
• Ability to interface with, present to, and communicate to senior leaders.

Education:
• Computer Science Bachelor's degree or degree in a related field of study.
• Advanced Lean-Agile certification desired.
• Master's degree desired.

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