Job title: Agile Delivery Manager _ This is an upcoming opportunity.
Job Summary:
As a DQA Agile Delivery Manager you will play a critical role in leading and supporting successful delivery within a high-performing, multidisciplinary team. You will be responsible for leveraging Agile methodologies to ensure your team stays focused and delivers to client expectations, milestones, and timeframes. You will be required to leverage your knowledge of modern IT systems to provide valuable input into project deliverables and documentation including architecture, cyber security, training, and communication products. You will be responsible for consistently ensuring client and team member satisfaction.
As an Agile Delivery Manager, your primary accountabilities will be to:
- Run the end-to-end scrum process up to the agreed number of teams.
- Undertake impartial and objective facilitation of all key rituals, including Refinement, Planning, Stand Ups, Showcase, Review and Retrospective.
- Create, update, and manage agile governance artefacts, including Social Contract, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done.
- Coach and educate team on the agile process and benefits of each ritual and foster good scrum practices within the team.
- Facilitate team cohesion and a shared responsibility.
- Create, configure and manage teams and develop dashboards for agile progress visualisation in Azure DevOps.
- Track sprint progress towards team outcomes, identifying and resolving impediments and blockers quickly, as required.
- Act as a conduit between the Product Owner and the team, ensuring the Product Owners vision and goals are captured and delivered by the team.
- Assist with risk, issue and dependency management, as well as status reporting on team progress.
- Build strong relationships with all project stakeholders.
- Provide input into project deliverables as required such as architecture documentation, cyber security documentation, training material, communication material.
- Undertake quality assurance on all project deliverables ensuring they meet DQA and client expectations.
As an experienced Agile Delivery Manager, you will:
- Have a solid understanding of traditional project management practices with demonstrated delivery experience
- Have a good understanding of Agile preferably with demonstrated experience as a Scrum Master
- Experience managing software development projects using Agile methodologies, such as Scrum
- Experience using relevant technologies in software development including either JIRA or Azure DevOps (TFS).
- Be comfortable managing the delivery of complex cloud-based technology projects
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, or similar
- Accredited Project Management and Agile certifications
Since most of our clients are in government, we’re looking for candidates who are Australian Citizens with an Australian Security Clearance or the potential to obtain one. Candidates who don’t meet those criteria won’t be considered, but we encourage everyone who does to apply!
Interested? Please apply now!
