Agile Delivery Lead

Overview

You desire impactful work.

You’re RGA ready

RGA is a purpose-driven organization working to solve today’s challenges through innovation and collaboration. A Fortune 500 Company and listed among its World’s Most Admired Companies, we’re the only global reinsurance company to focus primarily on life- and health-related solutions. Join our multinational team of intelligent, motivated, and collaborative people, and help us make financial protection accessible to all.

A Brief Overview

Performs challenging and sometimes complicated facilitator activities under limited supervision, to enable effective application of lean / agile software development principles with latitude to apply independent judgement. The Agile Delivery Lead (ADL) is an experienced Agile leader who is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end delivery of product and services, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. This role involves coordinating with one or more Scrum / Kanban teams, managing dependencies, and aligning project outcomes with business objectives. The Agile delivery lead will work closely with Products Owners and Solution Architects and other stakeholders to remove impediments and drive continuous improvements.

What you will do

• Applies knowledge of best practices, well-developed lean / agile experience, domain knowledge and proven ability to overcome barriers and solve difficult technology problems.
• Provides enabling leadership for one or more delivery teams; facilitating all Agile ceremonies, guiding process improvements, and ensuring all feedback loops are operating at optimal levels.
• Partners with Technical Product Owners and other key stakeholders to achieve desired business outcomes by delivering working software on a regular cadence. Leads tradeoff discussions and develops alternatives when encountering barriers such as resource constraints. Must have flexibility and experience to shift between traditional and agile frameworks.
• Develops detailed delivery plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk management. Facilitates team development through all phases of the team cycle to form high-performing teams (Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing).
• Coaches and trains existing and new team members on lean / agile principles to ensure consistency and improve overall productivity, quality and continuous delivery.
• Develops internal network of lean / agile practitioners to define common practices and increase adoption of continuous delivery principles.
• Monitors, tracks and reports on lean / agile metrics to provide visibility, increase productivity and optimize delivery.
• Combines knowledge of industry best practices, personal insights and proven tactics to increase benefits promised by lean / agile methodologies. Pursues additional knowledge and education regarding industry best practices, trends and associated lean / agile principles.
• Applies organizational change management methods to build awareness and understanding of lean / agile principles and facilitates adoption across the enterprise.
• May include people management responsibilities.
• Performs other duties as assigned. Compliance and reporting tasks when demanded.

Qualifications

What you can expect from RGA

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