Agile Delivery Lead

At EMC, you'll put your skills to good use as an important member of our team. You can count on gaining valuable experience while contributing to the company's success. EMC strives to hire and retain the best people by engaging, developing and rewarding employees.

*The preferred candidate will live within 1 hour of the Des Moines Metro*

The Agile Delivery Lead is responsible for promoting and supporting Agile principles and values within the team. This role involves facilitating team events, supporting the development of meaningful metrics, and acting as a servant leader to enable the team to be self-organized, cross-functional, and effective in an Agile delivery environment. The Agile Delivery Lead also collaborates with Product Management and Technology Leadership to define, prioritize and deliver initiatives and features critical across the organization

Essential Functions:  

Delivery

• Facilitates team events for assigned team(s), including daily stand-up, planning, retrospective, review, backlog refinement, etc. Facilitates collaboration sessions such as dependency management, story mapping, cross-team coordination, and conflict resolution
• Proficient in JIRA and its road mapping capabilities.
• Experience with Power BI for building metrics dashboards is an added advantage.
• Builds and analyzes metrics and information radiators; provides insights into delivery, forecasting, and historical data
• Supports the Product Owner by providing techniques for effective backlog management and product roadmap maintenance and utilization
• Acts as a close delivery partner with the Product Owner and team to manage dependencies and ensure successful feature delivery
• Guides the team to successfully build and deliver high value products incrementally and at a sustainable pace
• Proactively identifies and resolves impediments, risks, and dependencies that interrupt the flow of value
• Demonstrates knowledge of the team’s product and/or service offerings to provide more effective facilitation, backlog management, and dependency management
  
  

Thought Leadership

• Acts as servant leader to enable team(s) to be self-organized, cross-functional, and effective in Product driven organization
• Serves the team(s) by increasing the awareness and maturity of Agile and Lean principles, values and practices. Provides education to multiple teams via training and workshops; provides small group and individual mentoring opportunities as assigned
• Works with other Agile Delivery team members to increase the effectiveness of Agile and Lean practices across the organization
  
  

Continuous Improvement

• Leads the team(s) to identify and minimize waste, while maximizing value; recommends optimal utilization of team
• Analyzes team performance metrics to identify areas for improvement and implement strategies to enhance productivity
• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging experimentation and learning from failure
  
  

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Four years of experience in IT product or project delivery, including three years as a Scrum Master.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent preferred
  
  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong understanding of Agile principles and values
• Strong knowledge of Scrum framework and practices
• Excellent facilitation and organizational skills
• Good knowledge of multiple Agile frameworks
• Ability to blend practices based on each team’s unique need
• Working knowledge of technology practices related to software development lifecycle (SDLC), IT shared services, QA, and/or? DevOps
• Strong interpersonal and servant leadership qualities and skills
• Ability to remove impediments, resolve conflict, and motivate team members
• Strong knowledge of collaboration tools, such as Jira and Confluence
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
  

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