We are looking for Agile Delivery Manager for our client in Richmond, VA
Job Title: Agile Delivery Manager
Job Location: Richmond, VA
Job Type: Contract
Pay Range: $75.42hr - $80.42hr
Job Overview:
The Agile Delivery Manager provides varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influences activities on business-critical efforts. Serves as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching cross-functional teams through challenges, using industry-standard best practices to ensure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables.
Qualifications:
- Position requires a seasoned professional with a full understanding and experience with execution of agile practices.
- Delivery Manager provides varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influences activities on business-critical efforts.
- Serves as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching the team through challenges.
- Uses industry-standard best practices in order to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables, as well as compliance with all discipline processes and governance channels.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates cross functional teams of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility.
- Acts as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the teams to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
- Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team.
- Coaches Product leaders on the roadmap and backlog management.
- Coaches the agile team on user story writing, sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
- Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps.
- Removes impediments for the agile teams.
- Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner.
- Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
- Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities as necessary.
- Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution.
- Develops reports on sprint execution status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
- Keeps team accountable for delivering on planned outcomes (PI and sprint).
Knowledge:
- Comprehensive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area, especially the ability to coach the team on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology.
- Communications: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail, and oral and written communications skills tailored for the intended audience.
- Risk Management: Responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making and contributing to the function s risk management.
- Decision Making: Works independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives. Makes decisions within established or widely accepted standards. Achieves assigned/planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.
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Benefits
Our Benefits Include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
- Supplemental Insurance Plans
- Identity Theft Protection
- Pet Insurance
- Employee Wellness Programs
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities
Disclaimer: Benefits eligibility, accrual rates, and usage limits may vary based on employment status, length of service, and work location. Paid Sick Leave is provided in strict accordance with applicable state and municipal mandates. Cynet Systems Inc. reserves the right to modify, amend, or terminate any benefit plans at any time in accordance with applicable laws.
About Cynet Systems
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area, Cynet Systems Inc. is a leading technology staffing and workforce solutions company serving Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and enterprise organizations across the United States and Canada. We deliver agile, scalable talent solutions across IT, engineering, life sciences, clinical, and professional staffing, powered by a high-performing recruitment engine operating across North America and Asia.
As a nationally and locally certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Cynet Systems is committed to helping organizations build high-performing teams while empowering professionals to grow rewarding careers. Our organization is certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II standards, reflecting our commitment to quality, security, operational excellence, and customer success.
