Delivery Lead

Is this role right for you?

• You should possess strong leadership skills to inspire, motivate and guide team members to achieving their project goals.
• You should have a strong technical background in the software development life cycle, currently or previously. Your background will help to guide the team, solve technical challenges and make informed decisions.
• Experience in Java, APIs, Microservices, legacy modernization in banking domain
• Bring in technical expertise or productive discussions with the already acquired technical skills in the area of software development with Architects and Technical lead.
• Guide and participate with team to get to educated estimates with the technical background and solution design experience.
• Work with a team to identify roadmap/feature dependencies and impediments. Being accountable for tracking the dependencies and impediments and removing them to enable the team: surface, track, escalate.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved.
• Assists in the identification and mitigation of project risks.
• Identifies and acts on coaching opportunities at the individual and team level.
• Conducts regular assessments of a team Agile Maturity and uses the results to guide them to improved performance.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) and longer-term planning exercises (Release Planning, Release Train Planning).
• Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Pro-actively identify and mitigate risks using Agile best practices and project deliverables
• Needs to forecast the numbers of deliverables, which is based on evidence and reliable source.
• Needs to be expert in estimating and planning. Knows how to create useful, reliable and practical plans for software development projects
• Provide regular, standardized reporting for team performance: velocity, stories completed and project status.
• Coordinate operation readiness activities with associated teams (security, infrastructure, network etc.)
• Oversee and coordinate software release activities.
• Active participation and help assist in timely decision making in defining product backlog (working with Product Owner, Business Analyst); alignment to overall product architecture and technical design (working with Architect and Tech Leads)
• Regularly communicate with other scrum teams to ensure tactical story alignment and identifies/tracks dependencies between the team.
• Provide regular, standardized reporting for team performance: velocity, stories completed and project status.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We’d love to work with you if you have:

• 8 years overall experience in software industry with 5+ years of Technical Project Management experience and/or leading large cross-functional/cross-regional teams on major organizational projects primarily dealing with software development releases.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• Good knowledge of software development processes and procedures to understand the team needs
• Previous experiences as software developer, technical lead is desirable.
• Knows about Lean, eliminating waste, focusing on value delivery, small batch production, frequent delivery of working software, adapting to change
• Understands backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban based metrics, task definition, story splitting.
• Knowledge and experience with Agile techniques – Automated Testing, User Stories, Continuous Integration, Testing, etc.
• Demonstrated high level of analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working experience in JIRA/Confluence
• Hands-on experience leading release management activities for successful delivery of product launches