Manager, Agile Delivery Lead - Chevy Chase, United States - GEICO

Description

GEICO is seeking a Manager, Agile Delivery Lead, with experience in Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe methodologies to support Agile Release Trains by providing visibility to feature deliverables, coach ART members on delivery best practices all while communicating with leaders across the organization on delivery status.

Position Description:

Our Manager, Agile Delivery Lead, works to ensure the teams' delivery success by leveraging the appropriate Agile methodology to enable predictable, quality delivery while maintaining a focus on the continuous improvement of the team. The Agile Delivery Lead will optimize team productivity by removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to changes on the team.

Position Responsibilities

As a Manager, Agile Delivery Lead, you will:

Delivery

• Support one or more software engineering teams through Kanban/Scrum Agile methodologies
• Ensure team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery
• Provide visibility into delivery targets, commitments, and progress
• Be well managed – understand and coach the team on delivery controls, compliance to minimize operational, and reputational risk
• Understand domain architecture and targets to identify upstream and downstream dependencies and to support the team in risk management
• Proactively identify impediments and appropriately resolves using network of peers and formal channels (including escalation if required)
• Support Release Train Engineers, Product & Tech Teams to remove impediments and manage dependencies for delivery

Coaching

• Integrate Agile and Lean principles into team practices and work products
• Coach Product Owner and team on backlog refinement and prioritization
• Utilize team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve
• Innovate with practices and frameworks through experimentation to improve the team and their delivery
• Develop understanding and encouragement of team's engineering innovation and improvement (engineering practices, DevOps, etc.)
• Coach the team to improve collaboration and self-organization
• Develop the ability to act as a mentor and coach to team members and other Agile Delivery Leads
• Agile and Technical Learning: Actively seek and participate in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training, and independent study to further develop self and community
• Communicate with leaders across the organization on a regular basis to ensure transparency into delivery, risks, issues, etc.

Qualifications:

• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or PMI's Agile Certified Professional (ACP) certification
• SAFe certified or experience (or other scaled Agile frameworks)

Experience:

• At least 4 years of experience as an Agile Delivery Lead (or Scrum Master) (5+ years preferred)
• At least 3 years of Agile Tech Delivery experience utilizing Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe methodologies (4+ years preferred)
• 3+ years of experience with workflow management tools, such as Azure Dev Ops
• 2+ years of Agile coaching experience

Education:

Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Benefits:

At GEICO, we make sure you have the support and resources to leverage and develop your skills, secure your financial future, and take care of your health and well-being. GEICO continually seeks to provide a workplace where everyone can be their authentic self. To help achieve this goal, we support associate-led Employee Resource Groups that foster a true sense of community. Through GEICO's competitive benefits offerings and various training and development opportunities, we have you covered with our Total Rewards Program* that includes:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Assistance including Direct Billing and Reimbursement payment plan options
• Paid Training, Licensures, and Certificates

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins with the pay period after hire date. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

The safety of our associates is GEICO's highest priority. If you are required to come into the office for licensing, training, or orientation, please note that we have implemented a variety of safety precautions within our offices. Additional safety precautions include no-contact temperature screening stations, added signage for associates on common-area occupancy limits, socially distanced workstations, and increased cleaning procedures for all areas.

GEICO is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to cultivating an environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO celebrates diversity and believes it is critical to our success. As such, we are committed to recruit, develop and retain the most talented individuals to join our team.

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.