Principal Agile Delivery Lead
About The Position
VNC LLC d/b/a Veson Nautical is seeking a Principal Agile Delivery Lead in Boston, MA. This role involves leading multiple scrum teams, facilitating agile ceremonies, providing data-driven insights for planning and predictability, and mentoring other agile leaders. The position requires ensuring teams' work aligns with epics and initiatives, optimizing sprint cadences, managing cross-team dependencies, and coaching teams on collaboration and self-organization. The lead will also be responsible for strategic milestone planning, monitoring delivery health, providing executive dashboards, and integrating Agile and Lean principles into organizational practices. This role offers the flexibility to telecommute 2-3 days per week from a home office within commuting distance of Boston.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, IT Management, Quantitative Economist, or related field with coursework that includes quantitative and qualitative knowledge, skills, tools, and tech.
- Four years of Agile delivery experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban or SAFe frameworks and/or technical project delivery.
- Three years of experience with Agile project management software/tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Three years of experience leading Agile transformations and Scrum teams in enterprise environments.
- Three years of experience with scaled Agile frameworks.
- Scrum Master Certification (CSM).
Responsibilities
- Schedules and facilitates scrum team meetings (Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retro) and reinforces best practices to drive continuous improvement.
- Holds multiple teams to defined standards for story definition and ensures consistency across the portfolio.
- Servant Leader to Teams with focus on developing other Scrum Masters and Agile leaders.
- Provides scrum teams with execution data and advanced metrics to foster better planning and predictability.
- Monitors current sprint delivery across multiple teams and provides executive-level visibility into portfolio health.
- Supports 8-12 Scrum Teams through direct and indirect leadership.
- Ensures that teams' work is associated to appropriate epics and initiatives to enable proper reporting of progress and spend.
- Ensures sprint cadence is optimized across teams and that cross-team dependencies are effectively managed.
- Provides advanced coaching/training on Scrum Best practices including SAFe, capacity planning, estimation, and team dynamics.
- Optimize scrum team velocity across portfolio to identify systemic improvement opportunities and achieve higher levels of organizational performance.
- Track and resolve complex impediments that span multiple teams, holding senior leadership accountable for organizational-level blockers.
- Coaches teams and leaders to improve collaboration, self-organization, and psychological safety.
- Utilizes advanced team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, customer satisfaction, etc.) to identify strategic areas of opportunity and drive organizational improvements.
- Provide strategic milestone planning and tracking for multiple concurrent client-driven development initiatives.
- Monitors delivery health across portfolio and provides executive dashboards and stakeholder communications on program status, risks, and strategic recommendations.
- Train and develop other Agile Delivery Leads, serving as primary mentor and career coach for junior and mid-level Agile professionals.
- Integrates Agile and Lean principles into organizational practices, policies, and strategic planning processes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
