Job description
Primary Responsibilities
- Ensure that delivery frameworks and best practices are understood and enacted by the team
- Ensure Agile Principles delivery values and practices are followed conduct training if required
- Responsible for process improvements and conducting ceremonial meetings
- Coach team members to adhere to delivery principles and best practices
- Help the team understand how to work effectively within the organization.
- Protect the team from external interfaces and interruptions.
- Ensure the team is fully functional and productive
- Assist product owners with product backlogs and ensure the team maintains a healthy backlog.
- Be a servant leader and change agent
- Conduct/participate in leadership meetings PI Planning, Product Management in current and emerging delivery SCRUM and Agile trends tools and techniques
- Act as a Delivery Lead for one or more Agile teams.
- Establish team-level cadence and drive team level events in alignment with program level cadences
- Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage the adoption of good agile practices
- Provide agile practice leadership and education to the organization enabling scrum teams and product owners to ensure successful delivery of continuous business value
Qualification
Required Skills
- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- 10 years of overall experience in software engineering, preferably in healthcare
- 5 years of hands on experience in managing delivery teams.
- In depth knowledge of agile tools such as Rally, JIRA, preferably with Rally experience.
- In-depth experience with Kanban, Scrum, and Scaled Agile frameworks.
- Knowledge of the Software/System Development Life Cycle.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent presentation and relationship skills
- Project Management support skills for Business Partner projects
- Ability to lead projects by collaborating with enterprise and/or external teams
- Thought leadership skills to engage with the enterprise through speaking, learning forums blogging etc
- Ability to work with less structured, more complex issues and serve as a resource to others
- Change agent skills to foster a learn by doing environment.
- Ability to help teams develop and implement practices and metrics for continuous improvement
- Skills to foster a culture of continuous improvement through mentoring, feedback and metrics
- Analytical and investigative skills to provide explanations and interpretations within the area of expertise
Key job details
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive fair and impartial treatment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or on any other basis which is protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government-issued ID during each interview. All candidates must be authorized to work in the USA.
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