Agile Delivery Lead

Agile Delivery Lead

Onsite - Bellevue, WA

6 months - looking to extend

Brief Role Description:

The Agile Delivery Lead will have the following responsibilities:

• Leads daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, collaboration sessions, demos and decision-making sessions.
• Facilitates creation and implementation of technical solutions with team and support organizations.
• Helps the Scrum team to clarify goals and actions to achieve them while minimizing distractions and removing impediments.
• Guides team through delivery estimation and commitment sessions that allow for teams to meet or exceed expectations.
• Coaches scrum team members on agile best practices.
• Enables collaboration by building safe environment within the team which encourages all voices to be heard while facilitating team decision making.
• Understands and helps resolve business and technical issues within the team.
• Responsible for conducting retrospective meetings and support team improvement efforts.
• Participates in Scrum of Scrum meetings to provide detail and transparency to team progress and impediments if applicable.
• Works closely with product owner to manage backlogs and outcomes.

Desired Experience And Skillset

• Bachelor s degree and five years experience or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with inherent servant leader characteristics.
• Three to five years of working experience with agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to coach teams on agile and scrum best practices.
• Experience with shifting teams to iterative and incremental software development and delivery.
• Experience working on agile and waterfall initiatives with ability to facilitate delivery that best fits the organizational needs and expectations.
• Three to five years of demonstrated experience leading software development processes and procedures as a technical lead, developer, analyst, scrum lead, or project manager.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate accurate estimating and commitment schedules.
• Ability to use, produce, and communicate standard scrum metrics and project management deliverables with team and stakeholders.
• Experience with most aspects of agile and scrum process including backlog development, story writing, task development, and release management.
• Familiar with software engineering practices.
• Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) / Azure DevOPS Server or similar tool for work management and reporting.
• Proven experience in managing expectations on team commitments for deliverables based on data.
• Experience in having conversations which focus on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.