Agile Delivery Manager Lead

Title: Agile Delivery Manager

Location: St Louis, MO - Hybrid (3 days in office)

Contract length: 12 months

 (there will be an in-person interview)

Job Details:

The Agile Delivery Lead enables predictable, high-quality delivery across multiple RealTime Engineering squads. Supporting several Product Delivery Managers (PDMs), the role ensures squads operate effectively within agile ways of working, remove delivery impediments, and maintain alignment to engineering, product, and operational standards. This role drives flow, transparency, effective communication through embedding high-quality rapid feedback loops and continuous improvement across squads working on low latency, high reliability RealTime systems.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience delivering technology products using agile frameworks (examples might include but are not limited to Scrum/Kanban/Lean).
• This person should have experience leading a large global team. Many of the team members they will be leading have little experience and will require training and guidance. Strong leadership and communication skills are critically important. Please ensure all of these are displayed clearly in the resume.
• Strong delivery management skills across multiple concurrent squads or workstreams.
• Ability to manage cross team dependencies and maintain structured delivery governance. – streamlining teams and processes will be a large part of their job.
• Experience working with engineering teams in complex, high throughput, or time critical environments.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to engage engineers, PDMs, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Data driven approach to delivery, using metrics and tooling to improve flow and forecasting.

Desirable

• Familiarity with RealTime systems, low latency engineering, or financial market/market data domains.
• Understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and platform/toolchain engineering.
• Experience managing multi-vendor delivery environments.
• Agile certifications (Scrum Master, Kanban Practitioner etc.)

Qualifications and Experience:

• 3-5+ years of experience in product management, product design, or software engineering.
• Experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products
• A working foundation in process frameworks Agile, DevOps and DevSecOps with experience in executing these in a highly automotive and high velocity output.
• Thought leader with a solid understanding of the key business drivers and customer dynamics in high-tech industries.
• Demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast-paced environment and able to influence multiple cross-departmental stakeholders.
• Analytical and quantitative skills, experience using hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives.
• Strong work ethic as team player and a willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive day to day delivery flow across multiple squads, ensuring commitments are met and blockers are removed quickly.
• Support Product Delivery Managers (PDMs) to maintain healthy backlogs, clear sprint goals, and realistic forecasting.
• Ensure squads uphold engineering and operational standards including Definition of Ready/Done, technical quality gates, CSP pipeline usage, and DevSecOps practices and drive accountability for effective use of tooling, including instilling good ticket hygiene..
• Facilitate core ceremonies (planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives) where needed and establish contingency for enabling these to avoid key person dependencies..
• Manage cross team dependencies, escalating only when required and tracking them to closure.
• Maintain delivery visibility across all assigned products, aligning sequencing, capacity, and risks.
• Support integration work across Real Time Engineering, Platform, Architecture, and Tooling teams.
• Provide timely, accurate delivery reporting to PDMs, RT Ops, and stakeholders.
• Ensure data in Clarity, Jira, and other delivery tools reflects the current delivery state.
• Track delivery risks, issues, and impediments with clear owners and mitigation plans.

Behaviours & Expectations

• Promotes transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement within squads.
• Acts as a servant leader, enabling teams to deliver rather than directing from above.
• Calm under pressure, especially in fast moving Real Time operational contexts.
• Proactive in identifying and solving problems before they impact delivery.
• Role models positive delivery behaviours and supports a product led culture.

Team Health & Continuous Improvement

• Coach squads on agile behaviours, ceremonies, and principles to improve predictability and autonomy and improve flow.
• Champion continuous improvement by analysing delivery metrics and facilitating improvement actions.
• Strengthen collaboration between engineering, product, and vendors to support a cohesive delivery environment