SR projet manager

Our Healthcare client is looking for Senior Agile Delivery Lead candidates.

Job Title:

Project Manager (Senior Agile Delivery Lead)

Duration of project: 6 months

Location:

Remote

As a Senior Agile Delivery Lead, you will provide software product delivery servant leadership for teams creating our robust suite of cloud-native enterprise applications in the rapidly growing healthcare software industry. You will apply Lean-Agile principles to help drive teams with a focus on delivery excellence and continuous improvement. At Ascension, your efforts will be making a significant contribution to the vital healthcare communities that we serve.

• Serve as the Agile Delivery Lead for one or more teams
• Ensure the effectiveness of all ceremonies (e.g., standups, backlog refinement, planning, demos/retrospectives) by actively guiding the team toward predictable delivery
• Proactively analyze, collect, and present key delivery, flow, and product metrics to stakeholders to drive transparency and data-informed decision-making.
• Drive continuous optimization and predictable delivery improvements through the identification and implementation of actionable, data-driven plans across the product engineering lifecycle.
• Serve as a mentor and coach on Lean-Agile theory, principles, and best practices
• Remove obstacles and roadblocks in order to maintain the development flow
• Own creation, management, and delivery of the end-to-end engineering plan for the product
• Maintain a safe environment, where everyone feels respected, empowered, and free to express their constructive thoughts and feelings

• 5-8+ years of experience coaching Lean-Agile principles for development teams
• Experience leading delivery for teams developing cloud-native and highly available systems
• Advanced knowledge of Lean-Agile practices, metrics and KPI’s
• Advanced knowledge with Kanban or Scrumban processes
• Establishing best practices for transparent delivery progress and reporting, utilizing advanced functionality within tools such as JIRA, JIRA Align, and Confluence to visualize and manage product delivery flow.
• Advanced time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines and best practices for teams
• Openness to new ideas, mentor, coach and train others to learn new things
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, a positive mindset, and a collaborative spirit
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills to help drive solutions

• Technical depth to understand technical patterns and practices that enable agility
• Ability to interface with, present to and communicate to senior leaders
• Rollout and mentoring of advanced concepts such as scaling Agile (e.g., SAFe) across teams and groups, including ability to teach others

• Own the delivery flow. Assume accountability for the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, working proactively with Product and Engineering to predictably meet commitments and drive value realization.
• Be curious about technology, agility and operations. Our Software Engineering team is constantly changing and evolving. At Ascension, we embrace change and are curious to learn how the latest technology, tools and agility can be used to improve the lives of patients and our clinicians
• Shields the team. From external interference to enable optimal functionality and productivity. Anticipates and addresses potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistic challenges)
• Learn and grow professionally. We strive for continuous improvement of our Clinical Products and Engineering organization and our team members do the same. This comes from the path of constant learning, in addition to reflecting on past experiences for improvement opportunities
• Seek feedback. Feedback is important to us. We use it as a guide for our own development, and we build our software with feedback built into the process. It is incorporated into our ceremonies, including retrospectives to help us learn and grow
• Demonstrate positivity. Our organization's focus is all about solving problems, and most of these problems are challenging. We try not to let that get…