**Agile Delivery Lead (Development Projects)** **Role Mission** Own scope, schedule, budget, and quality. Hard\-gate releases with ORR/DR, drive CI/CD and quality automation, and deliver predictable value against strict governance and financial targets. **Key Duties (what you will own)** * **Delivery Ownership:** Baseline and control scope/schedule/budget; publish **weekly EAC** (date \& cost) and recover variance 10%. * **RAID to Closure:** Run a living RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies). Assign owners/dates, escalate early, and land decisions. * **DoR/DoD Governance:** Enforce **Definition of Ready/Done** as entry/exit gates. Block non\-compliant work. * **CI/CD Orchestration:** Lead pipeline policy (build, unit/API/UI tests, **SAST/DAST/SCA**, perf smoke, infra as code). Require green gates before release. * **Value–Delivery Sync:** Partner with PO on roadmap and priorities; translate into executable quarterly/sprint plans. * **Cross\-Team Integration:** Map dependencies across squads/vendors; manage capacity, skills, and integration calendars. * **ORR/DR Leadership:** Run **Operational Readiness Review** and **Disaster Recovery** drills; verify monitoring/runbooks/rollback plans. * **Executive Reporting:** Produce one version of truth for PMO/Finance/CEO—**DORA, EAC, margin, risk heatmap, ORR status**. * **Financial Hygiene:** Tie change requests to EAC re\-forecast and margin impact; keep CPI/SPI in the 0\.95–1\.05 band. * **Continuous Improvement:** Drive retro actions, defect\-escape reduction, and automation coverage on critical paths. **Must\-Have Requirements** * **Experience:** 7–12 years total; **4\+ years** hands\-on delivery leadership in enterprise or government programs. * **Track Record:** Proven delivery of multi\-squad software projects with measurable outcomes (DORA targets, ORR pass 90%, MTTR reduction). * **Governance:** Comfortable making **ORR** a hard go\-live gate and enforcing DoR/DoD without compromise. * **Financial Acumen:** E2E ownership of EAC, CPI/SPI, margin; can defend forecasts to Finance/C\-suite. * **Tooling Proficiency:** Azure DevOps or GitLab (boards \+ pipelines), Jira (if used), Confluence, MS Project/advanced Excel or Power BI. **Technical Skills (must/strongly preferred)** * **DevOps \& CI/CD:** Trunk\-based flow, branching strategies, gated pipelines, artifact/versioning, release automation. * **Quality Engineering:** Test strategy, risk\-based testing, automation (unit/API/UI), coverage analytics, non\-functional testing basics (perf, security). * **Secure SDLC:** **SAST/DAST/SCA** policy implementation, vulnerability triage with developers/security. * **Observability:** Metrics, logs, traces; incident response; **MTTR** playbooks; feature flags and rollback strategies. * **Architecture Literacy:** Understand domain\-driven design (bounded contexts), integration patterns, API standards. * **Environment/Infra:** IaC fundamentals, environment promotion flows, data refresh/sanitization basics. * **OutSystems (plus):** Familiar with OutSystems delivery patterns, sizing, and platform constraints. **Soft Skills (non\-negotiables)** * **Decisive Ownership:** Makes the call with incomplete info; clears blockers fast. * **Executive Communication:** Sharp, concise, and numbers\-first; can brief a CEO in 3 minutes. * **Conflict Navigation:** Aligns vendors, security, and product under deadline pressure. * **Systems Thinking:** Designs for flow, not theater; optimizes across the value stream. * **Coaching \& Standards:** Uplifts teams while **holding the line** on gates and quality. * **Stakeholder Management:** Converts competing priorities into a single executable plan. **Technical Background (ideal profile)** * Prior role as **Agile Delivery Lead / Technical PM / DevOps\-savvy PM** leading cross\-functional squads. * Hands\-on familiarity with: Azure DevOps/GitLab pipelines, SonarQube, OWASP ZAP or equivalent, Playwright/Cypress/Postman, Docker/K8s basics. * Comfortable reading architecture diagrams/ADRs and challenging risky designs. **Business Experience (preferred)** * Government or regulated sectors (finance, energy, healthcare) with strict compliance and audit trails. * Vendor orchestration and contract\-aware delivery (SLAs, scope management, CRs tied to EAC). * Reporting to PMO/Finance; quarterly planning; portfolio dashboards; steering committees. **Education \& Certifications (nice\-to\-have)** * B.Sc. in CS/IS/Engineering (or equivalent experience). * **Scrum/Agile:** PSM/PSPO, SAFe or LeSS exposure (pragmatic, not dogmatic). * **DevOps/SRE:** Any CI/CD, Cloud, or SRE certification a plus. * **Security/ITIL:** ITIL Foundation, security awareness certs beneficial. * **OutSystems:** Delivery Specialist track or platform certifications are a differentiator.