Senior Enterprise Agile Delivery Lead

Job Description:

Our healthcare payer client is seeking a Senior Enterprise Agile Delivery Lead to support an enterprise-wide Agile transformation. This individual will drive execution across multiple Agile teams, facilitate scaled Agile ceremonies, and ensure consistent delivery practices across the organization. The ideal candidate has extensive experience leading enterprise Agile implementations within large, complex organizations and is highly proficient with Azure DevOps.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Scrum of Scrums, identifying cross-team dependencies, removing impediments, and driving alignment across multiple Agile teams.
• Facilitate and support Program Increment (PI) Planning, including planning logistics, dependency management, risk identification, and program board maintenance.
• Ensure work is accurately managed in Azure DevOps, including backlog hierarchy, user story decomposition, sprint planning, dashboards, and reporting.
• Enforce Agile governance and enterprise delivery standards, ensuring work follows established workflows and quality expectations.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, QA, and business stakeholders to ensure delivery aligns with business priorities.
• Work closely with engineering and QA teams to promote built-in quality, ensuring Definition of Done includes testing, automation, and production readiness.
• Monitor team health, delivery metrics, and flow efficiency to identify bottlenecks and drive continuous improvement.
• Coach Scrum Masters and delivery teams to improve Agile maturity, predictability, estimation, and execution.
• Facilitate dependency management, risk mitigation, and escalation across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Provide executive-level status updates and communicate delivery progress, risks, and mitigation strategies to leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience leading Agile delivery within large enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise Agile transformations and scaled Agile implementations (SAFe or similar framework).
• Deep understanding of Lean-Agile principles, systems thinking, Program Increment (PI) execution, and dependency management.
• Advanced experience with Azure DevOps, including backlog hierarchy, Boards, Queries, Dashboards, delivery metrics, and reporting.
• Experience facilitating Scrum of Scrums, PI Planning, and cross-functional Agile ceremonies.
• Strong experience coaching Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and delivery teams.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence directors and executive leadership.
• Experience working in complex, cross-functional environments with multiple concurrent Agile teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within a healthcare payer or managed care organization.
• Experience supporting enterprise application modernization or digital transformation initiatives.
• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or comparable Agile certification preferred.
• Experience working with distributed and remote Agile teams.

Additional Information:

• Remote (U.S.-based candidates only)
• Must be available during Pacific Time business hours
• Experience supporting California healthcare payers or regulated healthcare organizations is highly preferred.

Salary/Rate: $60-$75/HR (depends on experience level). This is a contract position with candidates expected to work 40 hours/ week.