Agile Delivery Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Agile Delivery Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting the Product Manager, especially on refining and maintaining the product backlog;
- Supporting the professional development of the team members;
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information;
- Balancing the need for uninterrupted work with the proper level of team collaboration and interaction with customers and stakeholders;
- Guiding the team and organisation on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers;
- Continuing to build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem-solving and improvement;
- Agile coaching;
- Guiding the team on self-organising to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks;
- Manage and negotiate project proposals and change requests with the IF leadership team and clients;
- Ensuring continuous improvement;
- Scrum master – facilitating sprint and backlog reviews, sprint planning, retrospectives in several teams;
- Mentor the teams on agile practices and facilitate sprint reviews, sprint planning, retrospectives across several teams;
- Identifying and resolving any problems that slow down the team;
- management;
- Communication between the technology team and the internal users.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years’ work experience preferably as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach;
- Bachelor’s degree;
- Experience of managing budgets, pre sales, project planning, scoping and estimation etc;
- Ideally experience of working on customer sites with co-sourced teams;
- Proven background in the Agile Delivery Management and Agile Project Management of complex software projects;
- Strong customer centric skills with collaborative approach and experience of complex stakeholder management;
- Solid knowledge of Agile principles / Agile ceremonies, Agile tools such as Jira and techniques such as Scrum, Scrumban , Kanban / Lean etc;
- Experience of full Software Delivery Lifecycle / SDLC from project inception to delivery;
- Proven experience of Agile estimation techniques using story pointing, planning poker etc;
- Consulting or client facing Project delivery / project management experience on varied projects (ideally public and private sector);
- Experience of project delivery across a wide range of products and services;
- Project delivery for product development across cross functional teams including Developers, architecture, business analysis and test etc.