Agile Delivery Manager, Global Technical Talent, Washington, DC
Global Technical Talent -
Washington, DC,
US
Agile Delivery Manager
Date Posted: 2024-06-16
Job description
Agile Delivery Manager
Job Summary:
Specific Responsibilities:
Skills and Preferred / Required Qualifications:
Required Experience:
Required Education:
Benefits:
About the Company:
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- Contract Duration 6 months
Job Summary:
- Our client is looking for an Agile Delivery Manager to join our team.
- As an Agile Delivery Manager, you will play a pivotal role in building and delivering complex solutions for healthcare applications by coordinating with appropriate teams, and facilitating day-to-day operations of Agile Release Train(s).
- As part of this role, you will be required to have an understanding of SAFe Agile team positions and will be required to partner with agile team(s).
- A great candidate for this role is flexible and willing to work in a Scaled Agile Framework environment.
- This is a contract, remote position, and reports to the Sr Agile Delivery Manager/Technology Portfolio Delivery Director.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Lead teams in using SAFe Agile methodology and practices.
- Planning deliverables and helping teams monitor performance.
- Helping the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction.
- Work in a cross-functional team to achieve development goals to ensure task completion on time and with high quality.
- Continuously analyze existing processes and practices within teams, and suggest improvements to enhance team efficiency.
- Facilitate Program Increment planning and execution with distributed agile teams.
- Agile Delivery Manager manages ART cadence; supports scrum of scrums and ART sync meetings, and acts as scrum advisor for agile teams, ensuring agile ceremonies are performed properly.
- Proactively manage program risks, issues, and impediments; develop and execute risk response plans, run point on escalations, and monitor issues to resolution.
- Establish and track meaningful metrics when appropriate. Measure, monitor, and report progress periodically to inform the ART, business owners, and stakeholders. Support plan to implement future improvements.
- Coordinate a continuous improvement program to enhance continuous delivery, DevOps, portfolio management, and other key agile practices.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills and Preferred / Required Qualifications:
- Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, and backlog refinement)
- Good knowledge of other Agile frameworks (XP, TDD, BDD, etc.)
- Proficiency with Atlassian project tools (JIRA/Confluence) and Microsoft Office suite, including MS Project, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability.
- Outstanding organizational skills.
- Experience with cloud software development and other technologies preferred.
- Ability to document and communicate commitments, decisions, status, risks, issues, impediments, and corrective action plans efficiently and effectively.
- Strong team contributor, able to influence the outcome of projects without direct authority.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must.
Required Experience:
- Working in a SAFe Agile environment.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience supporting projects, managing releases, and participating in large product development efforts.
- 4+ years of experience coordinating with development teams.
- 3+ years of experience working with modern cloud architecture and platforms.
- Experience in the healthcare industry.
Required Education:
- Scaled Agile certification required.
- SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant, or Project Management Institute (PMI) certifications preferred.
- Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience is required; business and technology disciplines preferred.
Benefits:
- Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
- 401k Retirement Fund
About the Company:
- Our client organization is an alliance of health plans, providers, and related organizations working together to make the business of healthcare simple, secure, and efficient. Client solutions deliver accurate and timely data on 2 million providers and 250 million members to improve healthcare administration and reduce paperwork burdens. Their Core Operating Rules Make the Exchange Of Data Across Healthcare Automated, Efficient And Secure.
- Join a team of passionate and talented professionals on a mission to make our healthcare system work better for payers, providers, and patients.
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