HireRight is a leading global provider of technology-driven workforce risk management and compliance solutions. We provide comprehensive background screening, verification, identification, monitoring, and drug and health screening services for approximately 38,000 customers across the globe. We offer our services via a unified global software and data platform that tightly integrates into our customers’ human capital management systems enabling highly effective and efficient workflows for workforce hiring, onboarding, and monitoring. In 2022, we screened over 24 million job applicants, employees and contractors for our customers and processed over 107 million screens.
Overview
The Delivery Manager will be responsible for serving as the Delivery Manager and Scrum Master for one or multiple Agile Delivery Teams. The Agile Delivery Team will be made up of Software Engineers, QA Test Engineers, Product Owner and Product Manager along with the Delivery Manager with team size ranging between 8-12 team members.
The Delivery Manager will ultimately be responsible for the planning, coordinating, and facilitating the Program Increment Planning and Release Planning of the Agile Delivery Team and all the associated events and processes to ensure the engineering teams are delivering value and on time.
As Scrum Master this role will lead all Scrum ceremonies and create all required artifacts to ensure that teams follow Agile practices and scrum framework values, work to increase team efficiency, and provide motivation and guidance for process improvement.
The Delivery Manager will help escalate impediments, manage risk, and help drive continuous improvements for the team. This position will report to, and take direction from, the Technology Program Management Office (PMO); however, must be able to work independently.
Responsibilities
Work with on-site Agile Delivery Team serving as Scrum Master and Delivery Manager
Able to effectively communicate with stakeholders located in the U.S. and Europe, escalate impediments, help manage risk, and drive improvements
Facilitate the delivery of projects and products using Agile principles and methodologies
Help keep the team on track and ensure that projects and products meet specific standards at each stage of production
Help establish user stories for products and build established roadmaps for products
Constantly look for ways to improve processes and make them as effective as possible, ensuring projects finish on time and within budget
Works to minimize meetings and ceremonies, but when they are needed, they are well-run and efficient
Where appropriate, coaches the team to improve collaboration and outcomes
Training, mentoring, and supporting scrum team to follow agile values, principles, and practices
Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes
Create all necessary Scrum artifacts
Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements
Planning and organizing demos and product/system testing
Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders
Develop meeting objectives and agendas and facilitate meetings
Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately
Effectively present, orally and in writing, proposals, progress reports and recommendations to the highest levels in the organization
Facilitate post-project and post-release “lessons learned” sessions
Helping track features and capabilities throughout development
Assist with the coordination of Quarterly Program Increment (PI) planning across their team
Provides proactive visibility and effectively communicates delivery targets, commitments, and progress of the Program Increment for their teams
Help teams with feature estimation and the aggregation of estimates for larger pieces of work like capabilities and epics by planning and ensuring the vision, roadmap, and program backlogs are ready
Provide guidance in Agile, Scrum, and SAFe for their team
Monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements
Management and tracking of all high-integrity commitments
Work closely with the Product Managers to ensure that the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is clear and understood by the team
Manages inter-departmental relationships with internal and external business customers at various management levels
Qualifications
5+ years experience leading Agile teams as Scrum Master or Product Owner roles
5+ years proven and successful experience in a project management role
Experience with working with following data and other technologies: Mongo DB, Databricks, GCP, Google Big Query, Google Dataflow, DataLake Tables, Python, Tableau, Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, JIRA, Confluence
Must have a solid grasp of how to scale Lean and Agile practices and understand the unique opportunities and challenges associated with facilitating and continuously aligning a large development program
Experience in managing team(s) following scaled-Agile approaches such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Disciplined Agile, Development (DAD), or other Agile, Scrum or other iterative frameworks at-scale
Working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions
Experience as a Scrum Master effectively leading and coaching teams in Agile fashions
Former work experience in Software Development, or other technical area of expertise preferred
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
Certified scrum master
Excellent people and project management skills
Strong communication and presentation skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Must be able to work overlapping hours between on-site teams and with US-based teams and stakeholders
BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field required
What Do We Offer
Competitive relocation package for Candidates outside Estonia
Support with work permit and VISA obtaining for Candidates outside Estonia
Wellness marketplace subsidy
Vision reimbursement
Massage/swimming reimbursement
Paid sick leave from day 1
Personal accident insurance
Bonus Plan
Career Path & Opportunities to Grow
Flexible working conditions
Free parking
Coffee, tea, fruits and snacks
Please submit resume/CV in English.
All resumes are held in confidence. Only candidates whose profiles closely match requirements will be contacted during this search.
HireRight does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of HireRight and HireRight will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
