Delivery Manager

Stefanini Group•Richmond, VA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Stefanini Group is hiring a Delivery Manager for various locations across the USA in a hybrid work arrangement. The role provides delivery management oversight for business-critical efforts and directly influences activities to achieve delivery goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables. The Delivery Manager serves as a key point of contact for removing impediments and coaching agile teams, while ensuring adherence to agile practices and applicable governance processes. W2 candidates are preferred.

Requirements

Seasoned professional with a full understanding of and experience executing agile practices.
Comprehensive knowledge of concepts and principles in the functional area, including the ability to coach teams on agile practices and adherence to agile methodology.
Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention-to-detail, and oral and written communication skills tailored to the intended audience.
Ability to work independently on broad assignments or under general direction regarding scope or objectives.
Ability to make decisions within established or widely accepted standards and achieve planned results using professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.

Responsibilities

Plan, lead, organize, and motivate cross-functional teams working on efforts of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility.
Serve as a primary communication hub between functional departments and teams to anticipate risks, formulate plans, and organize activities that keep sprints on schedule.
Adapt processes to maximize team productivity and act as a change agent.
Coach Product leaders on roadmap and backlog management.
Coach agile teams on user story writing, sizing, and acceptance criteria definition.
Drive development of release and sprint roadmaps.
Remove impediments for agile teams and coach them through challenges.
Ensure efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner.
Coordinate and facilitate sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment tracking and removal, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Partner with project and release managers on production deployment activities as needed.
Work with Product Owners on short- and long-term release planning and maintain a healthy backlog prepared for execution.
Develop reports on sprint execution status, schedules, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
Hold the team accountable for delivering planned PI and sprint outcomes.
Apply risk-management discipline in decision-making and contribute to the function's risk management.