Agile Delivery Manager

Job Title: Agile Delivery Manager

Job Location: Richmond, VA

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $75.42hr - $80.42hr

Job Overview:

The Agile Delivery Manager provides varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influences activities on business-critical efforts. Serves as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching cross-functional teams through challenges, using industry-standard best practices to ensure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables.

Qualifications:

• Position requires a seasoned professional with a full understanding and experience with execution of agile practices.
• Delivery Manager provides varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influences activities on business-critical efforts.
• Serves as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching the team through challenges.
• Uses industry-standard best practices in order to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables, as well as compliance with all discipline processes and governance channels.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates cross functional teams of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility.
• Acts as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the teams to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team.
• Coaches Product leaders on the roadmap and backlog management.
• Coaches the agile team on user story writing, sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
• Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps.
• Removes impediments for the agile teams.
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner.
• Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities as necessary.
• Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution.
• Develops reports on sprint execution status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
• Keeps team accountable for delivering on planned outcomes (PI and sprint).

Knowledge:

• Comprehensive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area, especially the ability to coach the team on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology.
• Communications: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail, and oral and written communications skills tailored for the intended audience.
• Risk Management: Responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making and contributing to the function s risk management.
• Decision Making: Works independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives. Makes decisions within established or widely accepted standards. Achieves assigned/planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities