Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Scrum Lead / Agile Delivery Lead to drive Agile delivery across cross-functional technology teams. The ideal candidate will go beyond facilitating Agile ceremonies to actively drive execution, challenge assumptions, identify risks and impediments early, improve accountability, and maintain a strong focus on measurable delivery and business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Own sprint execution and drive predictable delivery outcomes.
• Challenge estimates, scope, dependencies, assumptions, and delivery timelines.
• Identify delivery risks and impediments early and drive them to resolution.
• Maintain strong Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD) practices.
• Improve sprint predictability and minimize sprint spillovers.
• Partner with Product Owners to maintain a healthy and prioritized product backlog.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across product, engineering, QA, data, and business subject matter experts.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and competing priorities.
• Use Agile metrics, including velocity, throughput, sprint predictability, spillover, and defects, to identify improvement opportunities.
• Coach teams on Agile and Lean principles while maintaining a strong focus on practical delivery outcomes.
• Support project governance, planning, scope and change management, and stakeholder communication.
• Apply delivery metrics to identify issues, improve team performance, and drive continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
• 10-15+ years of technology/software delivery experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Scrum Lead, or Agile Delivery Lead.
• Strong expertise in Agile, Scrum, and Lean delivery practices.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional technology teams.
• Strong facilitation, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience managing risks, dependencies, and impediments.
• Ability to work effectively with technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or comparable Agile lifecycle management tools.
• Ability to interpret delivery metrics and translate them into actionable improvements.
• Experience with value-driven delivery, project governance, project planning, scope and change management, and stakeholder management.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in the Oil & Gas or Energy domain.
• Experience working with business subject matter experts, engineers, or other domain specialists.
• Exposure to Data Science, Advanced Analytics, Machine Learning, or AI-enabled products.
• Understanding of data pipelines, data quality, analytics workflows, and data-driven application development.
• Experience supporting Agile teams comprising Data Engineers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, or analytics professionals.
• Experience translating Data Science initiatives or analytical experimentation into prioritized product backlogs.
• Experience with risk and crisis management and schedule management.
