Delivery Lead

Hy-Vee, Inc.•Grimes, IA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Delivery Lead is a technically-minded, servant-leader and agile practitioner on one of the Hy-Vee product delivery teams. Your primary customer responsibility is your team and managing delivery to meet the needs of your business stakeholders. Your focus is two-fold: Use agile best practices to develop and optimize the way your teams work together to ship products and continuously deliver. Work with other internal unit counterparts in IT to identify and manage the risks and dependencies that may impede your team. A successful Delivery Lead will create durable teams with improved software delivery throughput and relationships with other business units stakeholders.

Requirements

Cross functional leadership skills to execute product strategy
Multiple years of hands-on experience as a Delivery Lead/Scrum Master
Experience working within an environment with a Continuous Discovery/Delivery mindset
Multiple years of experience working directly with software engineers
Ability to learn new domains quickly
Desire to grow as an individual through continuously learning new techniques

Responsibilities

Help the team execute the vision and strategy for the product implementation and integration with other systems in the Hy-Vee product ecosystem.
Interface with other units teams to help identify, manage and resolve dependencies and risks facing your team.
Assist product owners, tech leads, and business stakeholders to help capture, track and update requirements.
Autonomously identify and mitigate team performance issues, as well as celebrate team successes.
Work with tech lead to coordinate and oversee the release management process.
Assist engineering teams in estimating and capturing the size and scope of proposed work.
Provide visibility into delivery targets, commitments and progress.
Lead, adopt and optimize agile best practices to ensure the team production throughput is predictable and responds to shifts in team and business dynamics.
Create documentation of new features and ensure support is onboarded and aware of how to support new features and functionality.
Develop and maintain standards and disciplined use of team tools, roadmaps, information radiators, etc.
Lead triage, analysis, resolution and communication of production issues for your team and across teams as necessary.
Work with the team to identify and monitor key performance indicators for team health and product progress.
Develop and constantly refine cadence meetings to be as productive as possible.
Work with your product owners to ensure backlog is aligned with overall product roadmap.
Work with the technical members of the team to ensure that production vision and technical execution are in harmony.
Craft technical documentation and informational content that quickly conveys high-value information to stakeholders.
Help ensure and set team goals that are achievable yet challenging.
Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organization.