Senior Agile Delivery Lead
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NTT DATA's Client is looking for an experienced Senior Agile Delivery Lead to provide software product delivery servant leadership for teams creating our robust suite of cloud-native enterprise applications in the rapidly growing healthcare software industry. If you have a passion for applying Lean-Agile principles to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement, this position is a great fit.
Job Summary: As a Senior Agile Delivery Lead, you will apply Lean-Agile principles to help drive teams with a focus on operational excellence and continuous improvement. You will serve as a mentor and coach on Lean-Agile theory, principles, and best practices, and you will be responsible for facilitating ceremonies, removing obstacles, and fostering a culture of collaboration and teamwork.
Your Responsibilities:
* Serve as the Agile Delivery Lead for one or more teams.
* Facilitate ceremonies (e.g., daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demos/retrospectives).
* Collect and present metrics in various formats for different audiences.
* Identify, develop, and use data to create actionable plans for optimization and improvements.
* Serve as a mentor and coach on Lean-Agile theory, principles, and best practices.
* Remove obstacles and roadblocks to maintain the development flow.
* Be a source of inspiration and foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork.
* Own creation, management, and delivery of the end-to-end engineering plan for the product.
* Maintain a safe environment where everyone feels respected, empowered, and free to express their constructive thoughts and feelings.
Required Experience/Skills:
* 5-8+ years of experience coaching Lean-Agile principles for development teams.
* Experience coaching teams developing cloud-native, scalable, and highly available distributed systems.
* Advanced knowledge of Lean-Agile practices, metrics, and KPIs.
* Advanced knowledge of Kanban or Scrumban processes.
* Advanced ability and experience with tools such as JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence, etc.
* Drive the creation of information radiators and promote metric establishment and visibility.
* Advanced time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines and best practices for teams.
* Openness to new ideas, mentor, coach, and train others to learn new things.
* Outstanding interpersonal skills, a positive mindset, and a collaborative spirit.
* Advanced verbal and written communication skills to help drive solutions.
Desired Experience:
* Experience with a team using TDD/BDD/DDD.
* Rollout and mentoring of advanced concepts such as scaling Agile (e.g., SAFe) across teams and groups, including the ability to teach others.
* Technical depth to understand technical patterns and practices that enable agility.
* Ability to interface with, present to, and communicate to senior leaders.
Education:
* Computer Science Bachelor's degree or degree in a related field of study.
* Advanced Lean-Agile certification desired.
* Master's degree desired.
Characteristics We Seek:
* Be curious about technology, agility, and operations. Our Software Engineering team is constantly changing and evolving. At Ascension, we embrace change and are curious to learn how the latest technology, tools, and agility can be used to improve the lives of patients and our clinicians.
* Shield the team from external interference to enable optimal functionality and productivity. Anticipate and address potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistic challenges).
* Learn and grow professionally. We strive for continuous improvement of our Digital Studio organization and our team members do the same. This comes from the path of constant learning, in addition to reflecting on past experiences for improvement opportunities.
* Seek feedback. Feedback is important to us. We use it as a guide for our own development, and we build our software with feedback built into the process. It is incorporated into our Scrum ceremonies, including retrospectives to help us learn and grow.
* Demonstrate positivity. Our organization's focus is all about solving problems, and most of these problems are challenging. We try not to let that get in our way of thinking positive - instead, it's what motivates us to reach higher.
* Work with your team. We understand that our best work comes from working together. Our teams enjoy working together, sharing knowledge, helping, mentoring, and delivering our best for the communities we serve.
* Live Ascension's core values. The Ascension core values are the standard that we hold ourselves to and a source of pride for us. We live by them. Our core values include: service of the poor; reverence; integrity; wisdom; creativity; and dedication.
Additional Note:
The role requires experience working in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
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Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting hourly range for this remote role is ($65 to $75). This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on several factors, including the candidate's actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.
This position is eligible for company benefits that will depend on the nature of the role offered. Company benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, life, and AD&D insurance, short-and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally required benefits.
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