Agile Technical Delivery Lead

Experience

8+ Years

Location: Hyderabad (Hybrid work model – minimum 4 days per week from the office.)

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Technical Project Manager/ Agile Delivery Lead with a strong background in Agile delivery, Scrum practices, and business-oriented thinking within Data & Analytics programs. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience leading cross-functional teams, driving end-to-end agile project delivery, developing a strong functional understanding of the data products and managing stakeholders in a fast-paced environment. Experience in the Pharma & Life Sciences domain and working with modern cloud-based data platforms like AWS, Databricks and Tableau (BI) is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple Agile projects while ensuring delivery commitments, quality, productivity, and adherence to timelines.
Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Quarterly PI planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives with effective use of Jira, Confluence and other project management tools.
Ensure Epics, Features, and User Stories are well-structured, appropriately linked, and include clear acceptance criteria, dependencies, and sufficient business and technical context.
Coach and mentor delivery teams to improve Agile maturity and delivery excellence. Drive continuous improvement initiatives across teams and delivery processes.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Engineering teams, QA, and business stakeholders to define priorities and ensure successful delivery with geographically distributed teams.
Manage project scope with available team capacity, identify risks & dependencies and track issue resolution.
Track project progress using Agile metrics such as velocity, sprint burndown, release burndown, cycle time, and team capacity.
Prepare and present project status reports, dashboards, and executive updates in Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews.
Develop a strong functional understanding of data products and perform user-level validation of delivered features to ensure business expectations are met.
Understand business challenges and proactively drive solution-oriented thinking throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Leverage approved AI tools to improve delivery productivity, planning, documentation, and quality, while encouraging engineering teams to adopt AI-assisted best practices where appropriate.
Continuously build sufficient functional and technical knowledge of the platform to participate in meaningful discussions with engineering teams, architects, and business stakeholders, rather than limiting the role to delivery coordination.
Flexible to work in a global onsite-offshore delivery model, ensuring adequate overlap with customer time zones to support effective collaboration.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
8+ years of IT experience with at least 4+ years as a Technical Project Lead, Agile Delivery Lead, or Scrum Master .
Mandatory Scrum certification:
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Proven experience delivering Data & Analytics projects with a strong working understanding of technologies such as:
- AWS, Databricks
- Tableau or similar BI platforms
- ETL/Data Integration platforms
- Diagramming tools such as Lucidchart and Microsoft Visio
Experience managing multiple Agile teams and Jira boards simultaneously.
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and leadership skills

Preferred Experience

Prior hands-on experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Technical Lead, or Software Engineer before transitioning into Agile Delivery is highly preferred.
Experience presenting delivery updates, risks, and roadmap progress to senior business and technology stakeholders
Experience with Jira, Confluence or similar Agile project management tools.

Agile Technical Delivery Lead/ Technical Project Manager

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