Agile Delivery Lead

Expert IT delivery practitioner with the ability to manage and coach multiple concurrent delivery work streams. This role is a highly experienced individual with proven track of managing system development lifecycle, both Agile and waterfall way. It is a leader in process improvement, coaching, mentoring, conflict management, facilitation and mediation while ensuring that work goes on consistently without interruptions within the delivery team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Taking responsibility for the deliveries or service in scope for the assigned agile team or project, maintain their scope, cost and schedule
• Facilitating the development process and ensuring that the team is following agile principles
• Managing the flow of work through the delivery pipeline
• Removing all obstacles/impediments for team efficiency and effectiveness; reaching out to the larger organizational network for impediment removal
• Ensuring cross-team coordination and coordination of dependencies with other agile teams, projects, or the rest of the organization
• Ensuring that the team is delivering high-quality work on time and within budget and that all risks and issues are appropriately identified and managed in alignment to the defined delivery approach
• Tracking and reporting on delivery progress
• Facilitating of release level planning across multiple teams if needed
• Acting as a liaison between the team and other stakeholders, such as other Agile Delivery Leaders, Product owners/IT platform & service owners, Infrastructure team, Management, and the rest of the organization
• Managing vendor relationships, working with vendor scrum masters, project managers and/or team leads to deliver as scheduled/agreed
• Managing Application support and Infrastructure relationship and services provided, coordinating any major incident resolution
• Facilitating the Scrum/Agile process and ceremonies (such as Increment Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives)
• Ensuring that all team events take place, are productive and kept within the timebox
• Educating the team in Scrum, Kanban practice and coaching the team in self-management
• Helping the team to establish clear goals and objectives, and to measure progress towards those goals, helping to align delivery with the overall goals and objectives of the organization
• Continuously improving the team's processes and practices, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement within the team
• Collaborating with other Agile Delivery Leads to share best practices and improve overall organizational performance

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

• Minimum 3 years of prior experience in a similar role, Scrum and Kanban practitioner
• Proficient with standard project management concepts such as managing Scope Stakeholders, Communication and Financial and Risk Management practices
• Understanding of all elements of the system development life cycle, including planning, development, requirements management, CM, quality assurance, and release management
• Highly analytical, methodical with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to think strategically, assess business risk and apply creative problem-solving skills

Required:

• BA/BS in Comp Science/IS (or equivalent) or 5+ years of CS/IS hands-on experience with IT solution delivery, software development and system integration
• Typical 7+ years' experience (total)
• 2+ years leading people/projects SAFe Certifications (SSM, SP) – negotiable in case of other strong skills
• Scrum Certifications – negotiable in case of other strong skills
• Ability to work with applicable collaboration tools that drive an end to end delivery of product through persistent teams.
• Fluent in use of modern Agile collaboration tools, familiar with CI/CD tools such as MS Azure CI/CD
• Fluent in English (minimum B2)

We offer:

• work in a multinational company
• flexible working hours
• fair salary conditions
• free life insurance and preferential terms for family members
• support for retirement savings
• recognition of life and work anniversaries
• language training
• office in the centre of Prague, with possibility of remote access