Director of Software Delivery Excellence

Bayer•Indianola, PA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Software Excellence is responsible for elevating the software organization’s agile planning and execution capability across global development teams. This leader manages software leads and scrum masters as a functional team within a matrixed organization. This is a hands-on role responsible for improving the predictability, quality, and execution of software delivery across a global medical device software organization. This leader will build a Delivery Excellence capability – not a traditional PMO – focused on coaching engineering leaders, software leads, and scrum masters, establishing common planning practices, improving estimation, delivery metrics, capacity planning, and organizational execution while cultivating a continuous improvement culture. This is a unique cultural and delivery transformation opportunity.

Requirements

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar
Significant and relevant experience leading software development teams and deliveries
Demonstrable experience successfully leading significant agile transformation and improvement initiatives
Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, Lean, DevOps, metrics, and estimation techniques and relevant experience with SAFe, CMMi or similar
Expertise delivering software in a highly regulated Medical Device, SaMD, SiMD, or similar environment
Strong data analytical and statistical skills
Demonstrable experience defining and utilizing metrics to successfully drive organizational improvement
Excellent communication and influencing skills up, down, and across the organization
Thorough understanding of the development process for medical device software with experience operating in a matrixed reporting structure
Strong leadership skills with the ability to build high-performing teams with a relentless focus on execution and target achievement
Extensive experience managing global teams in a complex product delivery model

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree or MBA
Minimum 10 years of experience leading software development teams and deliveries
PMP, SAFe or similar certification strongly desired
Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, Lean, DevOps, metrics, and estimation techniques with at least 3 years of experience with SAFe, CMMi or similar
Minimum 3 years of experience delivering software in a highly regulated Medical Device, SaMD, SiMD, or similar environment
Six Sigma certification highly desired
Minimum 3 years leading people, including hiring, coaching, and performance management preferred

Responsibilities

Act as a VACC leader, role model for embracing and actively championing the DSO operating model and behaviors.
Lead and develop software leads and scrum masters; coach the team to become exceptional delivery leaders, facilitators, and execution coaches.
Develop competency models, career paths, and onboarding programs.
Build Communities of Practice for software leads and scrum masters while improving connection and community with project development leads (PDL’s).
Lead agile and software delivery transformation across the organization.
Introduce lean, agile best practices that improve flow and predictability of software delivery.
Improve and standardize estimation, release planning, dependency management, capacity planning, and backlog management while allowing appropriate product team autonomy.
Drive continuous improvement culture of people, product, and process through example, coaching, and organizational learning.
Define and implement leading indicators for delivery and quality health.
Develop team dashboards that provide actionable insights into the software organization for product work teams.
Improve forecasting accuracy and portfolio visibility.
Use delivery metrics to identify systematic organizational issues.
Partner with engineering managers, product delivery leads, product technical leads, systems engineering, hardware, software architecture, quality and regulatory to influence change while helping to deliver latest SaMD and SiMD applications.
Utilize partnerships to influence systematic improvements that reduce organizational friction and improve execution.
Help establish a common planning rhythm across software development.