What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Agile Delivery Lead position at Veson Nautical?
Senior Agile Delivery Lead at VNC LLC in Boston, MA.
Job Duties:
- Serve as servant leader and subject matter expert of Agile methodologies and Program Management
- Schedules and facilitates scrum team meetings (Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retro) and reinforces best practices to drive continuous improvement
- Holds the team to the defined standards for story definition
- Provides scrum team with execution data and metrics to foster better planning
- Monitors current sprint to assess delivery and raises awareness to stakeholders if commitments will slip
- Provides key Milestones on Client Driven Development to internal teams
- Works alongside internal teams to plan Client Driven Development Work
- Supports 2-3 Scrum Teams
- Ensures that teams work is associated to appropriate epics and initiatives to enable proper reporting of progress and spend utilizing Agile project management tools such as Jira
- Ensures sprint cadence is running as expected and that sprints stsart on time
- Provides coaching/training to on Scrum Best practices (i.e. Capacity planning, estimation, etc.)
- Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance
- Track impediments, hold impediment owners accountable, and ensure a speedy resolution to maximize team agility and accelerate delivery
- Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
- Train other Agile Delivery Leads and serve as a mentor to less experienced staff
- Integrates Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products
- Coaches Product Manager and team on backlog refinement and prioritization
- Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve
- Innovates with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery
- Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organization
- Develops ability to act as an Agile mentor and coach to other Scrum Masters or any Agile role
- Communicates with leaders across the organization on a regular basis to ensure transparency into delivery, risks, issues, etc.
Education and Experience Requirements:
Must have Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, IT Management, Quantitative Economist or a closely related field with coursework that includes quantitative and qualitative knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to manage projects
Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or PMI’s Agile Certified Professional (ACP) certification required
Must have 2 years of experience in agile delivery utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe frameworks and/or technical project delivery. Stated experience must also include any amount of experience working with Agile project management software /tools such as Jira, Power BI or similar.
Employer Contact: Lauryn Brooks, 21 Drydock Avenue, Suite 610W, Boston, MA 02210, lbrooks@veson.com
