Agile Delivery Director

What is the opportunity?

As an Agile Delivery director, you will work closely with multiple stakeholders across technology, business, risk and operations to oversee the delivery of Home Equity Financing programs. You will partner with Product, Architecture and Technical Leads to implement engineering best practices and promote Agile Values and Principles to achieve the highest performance and efficiency. You will be responsible for managing program roadmap, deliverables, financial management, vendor relationship; and provide regular updates on delivery progress and efficiency metrics to senior leaderships/executives.

What will you do?

• Outcome focused leadership: Management, leadership and governance of the end-to-end technology delivery processes with responsibility for the scoping, defining roadmaps and release plans, budgets and milestones, and responsible for holding all team members and stakeholders accountable for delivering to plan

• Technology Savvy: You will be responsible for diving deep into technical systems, understanding them well and staying connected to the details to manage software releases from sprint through to QE test, UAT and deployment across multiple workstreams

• Delivery Methodology: Implement Agile practices and coach the team and individuals to promote business agility, DevOps and Agile best practices and mindset

• Matrix management: Team structure, skillset requirement and support execution of hiring and onboarding contractors and full-time employees and benchmarking skill set gap with regular updates and reporting

• Financials: Accountable for forecasting, team allocation and managing program financials to ensure the forecast and spend are according to the funding

• Executive Reporting: Accountable for preparing and providing influential C-level reports on achievements, milestones, progress on deliverables, risk and issues, financial and staffing

• Streamline delivery: Remove impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of dependencies, team problem-solving, and development of new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• Strong bias for action and be able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously

• 10+ years of experience as a Delivery lead where both Waterfall and Agile principles, practices and theory were diligently applied

• 10-15 years of experience working with engineering teams to develop software and services

• Previous experience managing +$5 million budget

• Undergraduate Degree, Certified Scrum Master / Agile Practitioner / PMP

• Advanced knowledge and experience with Jira, confluence, Project Financial Tools

• Strong collaborator, servant leader with delivery mindset and focus on bringing value to the end user

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams of various sizes, including leading remote or offshore resources

Nice-to-have

• Experience working with PlanView, LeanKit, MIS and other project forecasting tools

• Hands on with Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence)

• Graduate degree / MBA

• Scaling Agile Certification (SPC, Scrum@Scale or SAFe Agilist)

• Familiar with SRE, ITSM, DevOps

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Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above