Agile Delivery Lead

Optomi, in partnership with an industry leader in the car manufacturing space, is looking for a Senior Agile Delivery Lead to join our expanding team. You will be a true servant leader to a team of highly skilled product and engineering professionals. Your primary role will be helping to build high performing and self-sustaining teams while growing a healthy, collaborative, and continuously improving engineering culture.

Responsibilities :

• Support multiple product / engineering teams in the adoption and effective implementation of Agile principles and practices, seamlessly integrating Agile, Lean, and DevOps into team routines and deliverables with input from all stakeholders.
• Facilitate multi-team workshops and department-wide events (e.g., Quarterly planning) with support for the team's quality delivery extending beyond their team, aligning and contributing to broader organizational goals.
• Anticipate and address dependencies and potential impediments, such as technical problems, process bottlenecks, or resource constraints, with the team before they block the team's progress, while also championing impediment resolution at the department level.
• Proactively partners with product leadership and leads creation of multiple team's estimated work, realistic roadmaps, and delivery plans. Leads reporting on delivery progress and risks and escalates and resolves issues as needed across departments.
• Leverage risk, issue, dependency, impediment, and other data points to implement a data-driven approach for continuous process improvement within teams. Promote transparency by tracking, visualizing, and reporting on these indicators and the associated improvement trends, empowering teams to actively engage in optimization of their workflow as it contributes to both product and program outcome delivery.
• Promote a culture of transparency and information-sharing that aligns with the company's values, empowering the team to leverage their expertise and technology to achieve optimal performance while adhering to the department's business model.
• Facilitate and promote collaboration and communication between product / engineering teams and stakeholders. Influence change that impacts beyond the team to influence, help develop and communicate across TCNA departments to achieve department goals and delivery.
• Use experience with agile and delivery practices and knowledge of a team's product and technology to guide product / engineering teams in the adoption of the right tools and frameworks based on intended outcomes for optimal delivery and may ensure the effective management of Agile artifacts, including sprints and backlogs, and actively contribute to backlog maintenance activities.
• Use experience with multiple estimation techniques combined with knowledge of a team's product and technology to help the team break down work into manageable tasks, estimate effort, and track progress.
• Effectively utilize CI / CD principles to drive measurable improvements in team metrics, including change lead time, mean time to restore (MTTR), defect rate, and other key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Represent the product / engineering team to senior stakeholders outside the product / department with ability to communicate the product / engineering team's progress and challenges while gathering feedback for improvement.

Required Qualifications :