Position SummaryDelivery Managers support all delivery teams within a product. They are responsible for the overall solution delivery and support of large-scale programs with complex integrations. Delivery Managers are responsible for managing the communication across program stakeholders, defining mitigation strategies to remediate risks & issues, and assisting teams to ensure that the value being delivered aligns to the product vision defined by product managers.
Job Duties/Essential Functions- Helps with the allocation of resources and provides teams with the necessary support to remediate impediments and reported issues.
- Facilitates program increment (PI) or quarterly planning sessions across all delivery teams aligned to a value stream or portfolio, and the accompanying planning sessions (pre and post PI planning sessions).
- Works with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to plan release schedules across products, initiatives, and features.
- Supports portfolio teams with the delivery of new features and capabilities while empowering them and allowing them to be self-organized.
- Facilitates the system demos to showcase integrated features and capabilities.
- Leads program increment or quarterly retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities that can be implemented to improve productivity.
- Monitors delivery team metrics to evaluate progress against delivery milestones (e.g., release burnups).
- Aggregates individual delivery team status into portfolio-level risks, assumptions, and interdependencies.
- Creates reports highlighting the health of the overall delivery status to portfolio and value stream leadership and various stakeholders.
- Leads regular "Scrum-of-Scrum" meetings with Scrum Masters from all portfolio teams to drive alignment across development activities and review blockers or impediments impacting team productivity.
- Coordinates the resolution of internal and external dependencies across value streams, portfolios, and shared services.
- Drives tactical day-to-day delivery process, including removing impediments that negatively impact productivity or block the team's process.
- Ensures effective communication, collaboration, coordination, and team engagement in initiatives that cut across portfolios and value streams.
- Coordinates with Release Manager on pre-release, release, and post-release activities.
- Regular and reliable workplace attendance at your assigned location.
- Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery.
- Computer, phone, printer, copier, fax
Non-Essential Functions- Assists in other areas of the department as necessary.
- Assists in other areas of the company as necessary.
- Ability to operate vehicles, equipment or machinery.
- Same as essential functions
Experience, Skills, Education & Licenses/CertificationsRequired:- 3+ years of Agile Team Leadership (PO, PdM, PgM, TPM, DM, RTE, SM).
- 3+ years of experience with Scaled Agile Framework or Agile Methodologies.
- Experience mentoring Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers in Agile practices.
- Experience optimizing SDLC processes to improve the quantity and quality of work.
Recommended:- Bachelor's degree or higher.
- Ability to manage project delivery planning, estimating, budgeting and metrics reporting.
- Ability to identify and mitigate technical delivery risks.
- Proficient in Microsoft Workspace applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
- Successful internal candidates will have spent one year or more on their current team.
Other Conditions- Management will review the Job Analysis for this position prior to a job offer.
Required Documents- Cover Letter
- Resume
- Last two performance reviews
- Attendance records for current year (Do not include absences covered by paid sick/personal time, FMLA or other protected absences.)
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