Description
Agile Delivery Lead
Overview
Veson Nautical is looking for an Agile Delivery Lead to serve as a servant leader and subject matter expert of Agile methodologies and Program Management. The Agile Delivery Lead will facilitate the optimization of the team’s productivity by creating a culture of continuous improvement and transparency.
Responsibilities
- Schedules and facilitates scrum team meetings (Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retro) and reinforces best practices to drive continuous improvement.
- Holds the team to the defined standards for story definition.
- Servant Leader to Team.
- Provides scrum team with execution data and metrics to foster better planning.
- Monitors current sprint to assess delivery and raises awareness to stakeholders if commitments will slip.
- Provides key Milestones on Client Driven Development to internal teams.
- Works alongside internal teams to plan Client Driven Development Work.
- Ensures that teams work is associated to appropriate epics and initiatives to enable proper reporting of progress and spend (Jira).
- Ensures sprint cadence is running as expected and that sprints start on time.
- Provides coaching / training to Scrum Best practices (i.e. Capacity planning, estimation, etc.).
- Optimizes scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
- Tracks impediments, holds impediment owners accountable, and ensures a speedy resolution to maximize team agility and accelerate delivery.
- Collaborates and consults with peers, colleagues, and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals.
- Integrates Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products.
- Coaches Product Manager and team on backlog refinement and prioritization.
- Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve.
- Innovates with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery.
- Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-organization.
- Developing ability to act as an Agile mentor and coach to other Scrum Masters or any Agile role.
- Communicates with leaders across the organization on a regular basis to ensure transparency into delivery, risks, issues, etc.
Required Qualifications
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or PMI’s Agile Certified Professional (ACP) certification.
- 2+ years of agile delivery experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban or SAFe frameworks.
- Highly versed in Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
- Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.
- Hands-on experience in Agile project management software/tools (e.g., JIRA & Confluence).
- 2+ years of Technology Project Delivery experience.
- Ability to develop project status documents and associated communication documents, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path.
About Veson Nautical
We are a team of multi-cultural, multi-disciplined professionals that are dedicated to making our clients successful and charting a new, innovative course for the commercial marine industry. Veson Nautical employs a staff of extremely capable creators and innovators all focused on meeting the goals of our clients. We invest extensively in employee development and experience to maintain focus and enthusiasm. The Veson Nautical team is made up of a dynamic blend of engineers, artists, sailors, teachers, brokers, bankers, traders, consultants, and customer service experts.
Veson Nautical is a successful, rapidly growing global software company. Our clients are the world’s leading commercial maritime owners, operators, and commodity trading companies. Veson’s solutions enable our clients to identify new opportunities and proactively manage their business to make more profitable decisions. With offices in Singapore, Tokyo, London, Houston, and headquarters in Boston, USA, Veson Nautical is a dynamic organization with a committed team of professionals. Dedicated to ensuring the highest levels of client satisfaction, Veson Nautical brings decades of experience, technical knowledge, enthusiasm, and commitment to clients around the world. The combination of exceptional market growth and leading market position makes this a superb opportunity for the right candidate.
Veson Nautical Offers
- Competitive compensation.
- Four weeks’ vacation to start plus 10 holidays.
- Generous health, dental, life, and disability insurance.
- Flexible Spending Plan + $250 employer contribution.
- 401K + 4% employer match.
- Transportation subsidy.
- Friendly, informal work environment.
- New Office in Boston’s Seaport District.