Sr Agile Delivery Lead

Plano, TX | Hybrid Option

Toyota Connected has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Agile Delivery Lead to join our expanding team. You will be a true servant leader to a team of highly skilled cybersecurity professionals. Your primary role will be helping to build high performing and self-sustaining teams while growing a healthy, collaborative, and continuously improving engineering culture.

• Support multiple cybersecurity teams in the adoption and effective implementation of Agile principles and practices, seamlessly integrating Agile, Lean, and Dev Ops into team routines and deliverables with input from all stakeholders.
• Maintain a general understanding of information security principles and practices (e.g., secure development lifecycle, access management, vulnerability management, compliance requirements) to support teams operating in security-sensitive environments and engage credibly with Info Sec stakeholder.
• Lead and coordinate program-level planning, execution tracking, and delivery reporting across multiple teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment of scope, timelines, dependencies, and resources to organizational and contractual commitment.
• Drive cross-team dependency identification, risk management, and escalation processes to proactively address delivery risks before they impact milestones or commitments.
• Facilitate program-level ceremonies and stakeholder communications, including cross-organization security initiative updates, executive status reporting, and go/no-go readiness reviews.
• Facilitate multi-team workshops and department-wide events (e.g., Quarterly planning) with support for the team's quality delivery extends beyond their team, aligning and contributing to broader organizational goals.
• Anticipate and address dependencies and potential impediments, such as technical problems, process bottlenecks, or resource constraints, with the team before they block the team's progress, while also championing impediment resolution at the department level.
• Proactively partners with product leadership and leads creation of multiple team's estimated work, realistic roadmaps, and delivery plans. Leads reporting on delivery progress and risks and escalates and resolves issues as needed across areas departments.
• Leverage risk, issue, dependency, impediment, and other data points to implement a data-driven approach for continuous process improvement within teams. Promote transparency by tracking, visualizing, and reporting on these indicators and the associated improvement trends, empowering teams to actively engage in optimization of their workflow and as it contributes to both product and program outcome delivery.
• Promote a culture of transparency and information-sharing that aligns with the company's values, empowering the team to leverage their expertise and technology to achieve optimal performance while adhering to the department's business model.
• Facilitate and promote collaboration and communication between product/engineering team and stakeholders. Influence change impact beyond the team and influence, help develop and communicate across TCNA departments to achieve department goals and delivery.
• Use experience with agile and delivery practices and knowledge of a team's product and technology to guide product/engineering teams in the adoption the right tools and frameworks based on intended outcomes for optimal delivery and may ensure the effective management of Agile artifacts, including sprints and backlogs, and actively contribute to backlog maintenance activities.
• Use experience with multiple estimation techniques combined with knowledge of a team's product and technology to help the team break down work into manageable tasks, estimate effort, and track progress.
• Effectively utilize CI/CD principles to drive measurable improvements in team metrics, including change lead time, mean time to restore (MTTR), defect rate, and other key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Represent the product/engineering team to senior stakeholders outside the product/department with ability to communicate the product/engineering team's progress and challenges while gathering feedback for improvement.

• 5+ years of experience working in an Agile Delivery Lead or similar role
• Demonstrates expertise in Agile methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean), technical practices, and the software development lifecycle, effectively solving complex problems and delivering tailored solutions that align…