Agile Delivery Manager

McKesson•Irving, TX

8d•$120,500 - $200,900

About The Position

The Agile Delivery Manager (ADM) is a people leader accountable for delivery outcomes through others across multiple teams, releases, or value streams within Ontada’s Technology Solutions portfolio. Reporting to senior technology leadership, the ADM owns the health, predictability, and effectiveness of the delivery system, directly leads Scrum Masters, and serves as a trusted delivery advisor to Product, Engineering, and senior stakeholders. The role operates at program and organizational levels, combining servant leadership with accountability for execution, risk management, governance, and continuous improvement. The ADM oversees delivery models, planning, release management, dependencies, delivery risks, governance, and metrics across teams or value streams. The role includes directly managing Scrum Masters and performing Scrum Master responsibilities for one team. It also requires executive engagement, compliance with enterprise and regulatory controls, and leadership of continuous improvement across delivery practices, tools, and ways of working.

Requirements

10+ years leading large-scale technology delivery in enterprise environments.
Prior people leadership experience managing Scrum Masters, Delivery Leads, or Technical Program Managers.
Proven ownership of delivery outcomes across multiple teams, programs, or value streams.
Strong coaching, talent development, and performance management capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to influence Directors, VPs, and senior leaders through data and insight.
Deep understanding of agile frameworks, including Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban, and enterprise delivery models.
Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments.
Strong command of delivery metrics, governance, and risk management practices.
Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and related delivery tools.
Excellent communication, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

Own delivery outcomes across teams or value streams through Scrum Masters, ensuring predictable, high-quality execution aligned with business priorities and enterprise standards.
Establish and enforce delivery models, cadences, and governance aligned to Ontada’s Agile Delivery Lifecycle (ADLC).
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to ensure work is properly sequenced, funded, and staffed for predictable execution.
Oversee release planning, milestone management, cross-team dependencies, and delivery commitments.
Identify and mitigate systemic delivery risks, escalating with options and recommendations when tradeoffs are required.
Serve as the senior agile authority supporting delivery transformation across assigned teams.
Oversee iteration-based planning and execution, including capacity allocation, flow efficiency, risk identification, mitigation, tracking, and reporting.
Oversee PlainView (PV) related activities and reports.
Deliver Scrum Master responsibilities for one team.
Directly manage Scrum Masters, including goal setting, coaching, feedback, and performance management.
Set expectations for role maturity, scope ownership, and delivery excellence; mentor Scrum Masters and assess readiness for expanded scope or promotion.
Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across the delivery organization.
Act as a trusted delivery partner to Product, Engineering, QA, and business leaders.
Provide executive-level visibility into delivery health, risks, dependencies, and outlook; facilitate governance forums, escalation paths, and decision checkpoints.
Translate complex delivery challenges into clear insights, options, and recommendations for senior leadership.
Ensure adherence to enterprise governance, regulatory controls, and audit requirements across delivery efforts.
Oversee scope management, change control, and delivery discipline for milestone-driven initiatives.
Ensure delivery artifacts, metrics, and evidence are consistently produced and audit-ready.
Maintain alignment with ServiceNow change management and other enterprise processes.
Define, monitor, and act on delivery KPIs, metrics, and dashboards; understand and implement industry best practices.
Publish and maintain release-level information radiators.
Analyze agile maturity survey trends to identify systemic issues affecting predictability, quality, or throughput.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives across delivery practices, tooling, and ways of working.
Support Product and Scrum Teams in prioritization, sizing, and business value definition.
Conduct Valuable Scrum of Scrums (SoS) and drive action items to closure.
Contribute to the evolution of Ontada’s ADLC and enterprise agile maturity.