Delivery Team Lead - Technology; Omaha, NE

A Delivery Team Lead works on the delivery team and reports to the Director of Technology. This individual is the primary point of communication with management and stakeholders to orchestrate the day‑to‑day work of the team. The Delivery Team Lead manages work intake and execution for the delivery team in an Agile environment and organizes work for the team through the Kanban framework on a Kanban board.

Looking for a candidate with excellent collaboration skills, a desire to lead in a team atmosphere, and the ability to organize work and oversee through completion.

• Responsible for work orchestration of projects, epics, stories, and requests/tickets and managing work in workflow software application (One Source Service Now) for the delivery team
• Ability to lead work breakdown exercises to create projects, epics, and stories
• Provide status updates on delivery team’s work and escalates risks and works to remove blockers or impediments when identified
• Manage work for the team on a Kanban board, facilitate Kanban ceremonies, and review Kanban metrics and KPIs
• Manage dependencies with other teams and attend or hold Scrum-of-Scrum ceremonies when appropriate
• Ensure adherence to software development life cycle (SDLC) governance
• Help prioritize work with team or facilitate priority discussions to balance planned work versus request ticket queues
• Leads team‑led intake ceremonies for projects such as performing demand assessments and progressive elaborations for team led project size work
• Build and maintain Stakeholder business and technology relationships.
• Responsible for communication and scope negotiation with stakeholders, business units, and vendors (when appropriate).
• May represent multiple business units and works directly with those business units and acts as the business units’ voice within the delivery team, acting in their best interest supporting the BU strategy and vision.
• Backlog management and prioritization in conjunction with input from stakeholders (technology and business units)
• Build and maintain team roadmap with input from stakeholders (technology and business units)
• Manage intake for incident tickets and production support
• May support multiple teams

• Business Analyst
• Systems Analyst
• Program Analyst
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Project Management (1-3 years)
• Understanding and experience working in an Agile environment and Kanban or Scrum framework (1-3 years)
• Strong communication, facilitation, collaboration, and organizational skills
• Continuous improvement and demonstrable experience of improving process and teams
• Road mapping, story writing, backlog management, and release planning experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a technology‑related discipline or equivalent experience is required
• Experience in a role leading team (1-3 years) is preferred
• Strong technical aptitude is a plus
• Experience working with IT vendors is a plus

Prior technology experience, understands technology concepts and has supported third party software solutions in some capacity. This candidate is able to manage and prioritize the team’s workload by working collaboratively with all business units the team supports as well as with vendors on projects as needed. This candidate can effectively lead demand assessments, help to remove impediments and find opportunities to gain efficiencies within team processes through automation or some other means.

Candidates must possess unrestricted work authorization and not require future sponsorship.

Compensation range (base pay): $89,828.00-$ This role may have a specific starting pay within this range. Final compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon…