Agile Delivery Lead
Optomi, in partnership with a leading manufacturing company, is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead to support multiple product and engineering teams in effectively applying Agile principles and delivering high-quality solutions at scale. This role drives alignment, transparency, and continuous improvement across teams while facilitating collaboration between product management, engineering, and key stakeholders.
Responsibilities :
- Utilize CI / CD practices to improve key performance indicators such as lead time, MTTR, defect rate, and other engineering metrics.
- Guide several cross-functional teams in adopting and maturing Agile, Lean, and DevOps practices to enhance delivery speed, quality, and predictability.
- Facilitate multi-team planning sessions (e.g., quarterly planning) to ensure strategic alignment and coordinated delivery.
- Surface and resolve risks, dependencies, and impediments early—including technical blockers, process gaps, and resource constraints.
- Partner closely with product leaders to develop estimates, release roadmaps, delivery plans, and status reporting, ensuring clarity across teams and stakeholders.
- Use data and metrics related to risks, issues, dependencies, and performance to drive continual process improvements and increase transparency.
- Promote strong communication and information-sharing across teams to empower high-quality execution within the organization’s delivery model.
- Act as a liaison between teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment, expectations management, and consistent flow of information.
- Support Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, estimation, and effective use of delivery tools, ensuring teams maintain healthy backlogs and tracking discipline.
- Apply various estimation techniques and break down work into manageable components while guiding teams to track progress accurately.
- Represent product or engineering teams with senior stakeholders, communicating progress, risks, and needs while gathering feedback for ongoing improvement.
Required Qualifications :
5+ years in an Agile Delivery Lead, Scrum Master, or similar Agile leadership role.Experience with version control, CI / CD pipelines, branching strategies, automated testing, and other DevOps practices.Deep expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and modern software development practices.Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and the ability to tailor Agile solutions to team needs.Proficiency with Agile delivery tools and dashboarding / reporting to visualize progress, health metrics, and impediments.Familiarity with product management principles and experience partnering with product owners to shape strategy and delivery approaches.Strong data literacy, with the ability to analyze metrics and use insights to guide decision-making and process improvements.Solid understanding of technical concepts, technical debt management, and upstream / downstream dependency impacts.Advanced problem-solving skills and the ability to manage uncertainty, risk, and change effectively.Strong communication skills, demonstrating integrity, empathy, and a commitment to team success.