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Agile Delivery Lead – Cyber Defense (Jira / Agile Transformation) (Hybrid, 4 days onsite- Friday’s remote) 
Irvine, CA 92618
12 months (potential extension)
Hours: flexible 8am-5pm

Overview: 

Build, configure, document, and maintain Jira boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, and portfolio views for the intake, prioritization, planning, execution, and closure of improvement work.

Primary responsibilities/essential functions:

• Facilitate planning and delivery activities, including program increment planning or equivalent periodic planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, scrum check-ins, reviews, retrospectives, and dependency reviews.
• Partner with technical and business stakeholders to clarify priorities, outcomes, acceptance criteria, estimates, owners, dependencies, and target dates.
• Facilitate product-management practices, including outcome definition, roadmap and backlog development, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and translating strategic objectives into actionable delivery plans.
• Provide agile coaching to teams and stakeholders to improve delivery practices, role clarity, collaboration, planning discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain backlog quality by identifying stale, incomplete, duplicate, blocked, or incorrectly classified work and coordinating appropriate follow-up.
• Document commitments, decisions, risks, dependencies, blockers, and action items, and track them through resolution.
• Monitor delivery progress and proactively escalate aging, blocked, overdue, or at-risk commitments.
• Develop practical measures and dashboards covering demand, backlog health, delivery capacity, throughput, cycle time, aging, blocked work, predictability, and delivery risk.

Qualifications: 

• Experience leading agile delivery for cybersecurity, infrastructure, platform engineering, technology operations, or similarly complex technical portfolios.
• Strong Jira administration and reporting experience, including workflows, boards, filters, dashboards, permissions, automation, and data-quality practices.
• Experience facilitating agile planning and delivery ceremonies across multiple teams and stakeholder groups.
• Experience facilitating product-management practices and coaching teams and stakeholders in agile ways of working.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, risk management, and conflict-resolution skills.

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