Delivery Manager

This position will be responsible for the following:

• Drives program / cross platform product delivery, demonstrating leadership coupled with technical expertise across domains and the corresponding business domain knowledge
• Entire lifecycle from initiation to delivery:
• Partners with LPM, Product and Engineering owners for early engagement and prioritization process.
• Drives Pre-Program Increment (PI) planning meetings with leadership, product management, delivery teams and Business Partners.
• Cross Platform Integrated Release Planning and status reporting
• E2E Test Management (test data set up, test plan creation, reporting on testing status, etc.)
• Drive the Solutioning and architecture with engineering teams .
• Partners with Product Managers, New Product Development, Business Partners and Architects to help assure strategy, vision and road map alignment and execution
• Create data-driven insights into the delivery and execution of the program through the use of automation & metrics.
• Manages impediments, risks, dependencies and resourcing needs across stakeholders and senior leadership as appropriate.
• Support and encourage innovation through continuous exploration.
• Aggregates and drives End-to-End Program Increment (PI) objectives into Epic/Cross-Train Release objectives to ensure successful delivery.
• Track and measure capability and epic execution
• Manages external relationships, e.g. product partners or technology vendors on behalf of Technology organization (where appropriate).

Technical Skills

• Inform or co-develop architecture and process flows to ensure end to end technology product solutions
• Understand the program's technical platforms and applications
• Execute solution technical alignment discussions. Bridges the gap between product teams

Leadership and Coaching

• Coach leaders, teams in technology and product management in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets
• Live the Agile and SAFe Values & Principles
• Encourage diversity of thought and demonstrate an open mindset.
• Foster a culture of trust and leadership in others.
• Champion a learning culture to drive continuous improvements and standardization.
• Respectfully and purposefully challenge the status quo
• Inspires collaboration and quality practices between system architects & Agile teams and product teams
• Ensures compliance with SDLC standards across the program
• Ensures data integrity for the program within the Agile Management tools
• Influence without authority through effective change and leadership management.

Minimum Qualifications

Qualifications for this Position are as follows:

• 8+ years relevant Program and/or Project Management experience
• Experience with design and coding across one or more platforms and languages is ideal
• Experience facilitating Agile, Scrum, or other rapid application development teams to deliver solutions
• Current/active PMI-ACP, PMP, SPC or SA certification a plus
• Additional Agile certifications a plus
• BS or MS degree in computer science or equivalent working experience is preferred