Lead Agile Delivery (G3) – Agentic Platform (P4573)

8451 • Chicago, OH

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Agentic Platform team is at the forefront of designing and delivering platforms for agents across the Kroger enterprise – spanning agent control plane and development tooling, deployment and evaluation platforms for both pro-code and no-code agents, and high-tier customer-facing agent infrastructure. Our users today are primarily engineers and data scientists, with an expanding footprint into business users across the organization. As the Lead Agile Delivery specialist on the team, you'll serve as the connective tissue across four squads operating within a single, unified Agentic Platform team. This is not a role for someone who defaults to the Scrum playbook – it's a role for someone who questions it. You'll partner closely with product managers, tech leads, and individual squad scrum masters to shape how modern software delivery works in the age of agentic AI, ensuring teams stay aligned, unblocked, and moving with purpose.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience working with software or data development teams in a delivery, scrum master, or agile leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated willingness and ability to adapt or reinvent delivery frameworks to meet the demands of fast-moving, AI-adjacent environments.
• Demonstrated early adoption and practical use of AI tooling in a professional setting.
• Basic familiarity with AI systems, including a basic understanding of the components of agent systems.
• Proven ability to operate across multiple teams sharing a broader context, balancing squad-level needs with program-level alignment.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills – particularly with technical leads and product managers.
• High emotional intelligence; ability to build trust, influence without authority, and drive toward shared understanding.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving environments; does not rely on rigid process as a crutch.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve ways of working across the Agentic Platform team, creating lightweight collaboration structures that connect four squads around a shared mission and context.
• Actively challenge and reimagine traditional Agile and Scrum norms to better fit the pace, complexity, and opportunity of agentic-powered development.
• Partner with product managers and tech leads to ensure delivery expectations and timelines are clearly understood, visible, and achievable across squads.
• Act as liaison across squads to align work, surface and manage dependencies, and escalate risks before they become blockers.
• Enable clear visibility of sprint/cycle/release health across all four squads, ensuring shared understanding of priorities and scope without creating unnecessary overhead.
• Demonstrate and encourage adoption of AI tooling within team workflows, modeling what it looks like to work effectively alongside agentic systems.
• Reduce friction across the product lifecycle – remove impediments, simplify handoffs, and continuously innovate how value gets delivered.
• Identify and execute team improvement opportunities, coaching squads toward higher performance while respecting their autonomy and context.
• Support healthy leadership strategies across the value stream, including communication rhythms, metrics, and cross-squad planning.

Benefits

• Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health.
• Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
• Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
• 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution.
• Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan).
• AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.
• Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree