Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Lead (Associate Principal Engineer)

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Job Description

The Agile Delivery Manager / Scrum Lead will be responsible for driving end-to-end product delivery, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes aligned with the product roadmap while fostering agility, collaboration, and continuous improvement within teams.

Key Responsibilities

Drive End-to-End Product Delivery

  • Oversee delivery of product increments from planning to release.

  • Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of initiatives, epics, and features in alignment with the product roadmap.

  • Facilitate, govern, and guide planning sessions and workshops for product discovery or initiation.

  • Support product teams in prioritization and estimation of product features using techniques such as RICE and KANO.

  • Manage dependencies across squads to ensure smooth and timely progress on product deliverables.

  • Facilitate Release Planning and Management

  • Collaborate with Product Owners and chapter leads to plan and execute product releases.

  • Support pre- and post-release activities, including L2 support alignment.

  • Strengthen process agility and optimize tools to reduce time to market and enable faster deployments to production.

  • Ensure frequent releases for continuous customer feedback and iteration.

  • Maintain quality standards by tracking key defect metrics such as leakage and defect aging.

  • Facilitate Risk Management

  • Identify and mitigate risks impacting product delivery proactively.

  • Address impediments and escalate issues to stakeholders as required.

  • Metrics and Reporting

  • Track and report on key metrics and OKRs including velocity, lead time, cycle time, and predictability.

  • Use data-driven insights to identify bottlenecks and improvement areas.

  • Collaborate with Product Owners to review product performance metrics such as customer satisfaction, adoption, and product KPIs.

  • Ensure alignment of product development efforts with desired business outcomes.

  • Create dashboards and reports to provide clear visibility into product progress for stakeholders and leadership.

  • Coach on Agile Processes

  • Guide teams in adopting Agile practices such as Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid models suited to the product context.

  • Coach cross-functional teams and stakeholders to embed Agile mindsets that drive adaptability, autonomy, and innovation.

  • Act as a catalyst for organizational change, co-creating improved ways of working.

  • Ensure Agile ceremonies (daily scrums, retrospectives, planning sessions) are effective and value-driven.

  • Promote continuous improvement through retrospectives and sprint reviews, fostering a culture of “inspect and adapt” and “fail fast” learning.

  • Support Team Enablement

  • Foster a psychologically safe environment for open communication and ownership.

  • Promote accountability, collaboration, and self-organization within teams.

  • Encourage innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning.

  • Partner with Product Owners

  • Ensure delivery aligns with product vision and business strategy.

  • Define and track OKRs for successful completion.

  • Participate in backlog prioritization to maximize business value and strategic impact.

  • Identify stakeholders and manage expectations actively.

  • Location:
    Gb
    Job Type:
    FullTime

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