Agile Delivery Lead

Company Description

Our name isn’t the only thing that’s unique about Leidos Australia. We’re a complex systems integration company building world-class solutions across government, including Defence, that ensure peace of mind for the entire nation. Supported by global backing from our US network, we’re trusted by our customers to deliver the most innovative answers to their most complex challenges. Seriously interesting work that benefits and safeguards every Australian. That’s where you come in

**Job Description**:
**Your New Role**

We have an opportunity for an experienced Scrum Master to support a multi-year Defence program to deliver an enterprise Health Knowledge Management System. This capability will enable better clinical decision making for the ADF and providing market leading healthcare to ADF personnel.

Joining the team at an early stage you will be an active contributor to the projects overall success. As a Scrum Master and working with the broad technical and development teams, you will be responsible for:

- Leading and coaching the team towards self-organisation, collaboration and maturity, through the involvement of continuous improvement/continuous delivery practices
- Managing stakeholders, sprints, scope, dependencies, risks, issues and milestones
- Facilitating agile ceremonies and workshops to encourage purposeful and effective outcomes.
- Supporting the Product Owner(s) with backlog refinement, identification of goals and engagement of key stakeholders
- Preparing progress reports for executive updates, detailing team progress, sprint burn-downs, risks and issues and achievements
- Managing end-to-end delivery across the various work streams of the team
- Working to anticipate and remove obstacles for the development teams
- Managing the day-to-day operations of the cross-functional teams
- Fostering the progression toward a more streamlined delivery culture that supports team engagement and high performance.
- Engaging, influencing and collaborating with the business to educate and promote Agile Ways of Working/New Ways of Working
- Managing Agile projects, coaching cross-functional teams or leading iterative development teams

**Qualifications**:
**About You and What You Will Bring**

Experience with configuring and maintaining agile software tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Exemplary communication and facilitation skills with experience in energising teams and building strong relationships across the organisation.
- Understanding of agile frameworks and methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean,
- Design Thinking and Human Centred Design.
- Demonstrated leadership and people management skills with a proven ability to motivate negotiate and resolve disputes with stakeholders and teams.
- Demonstrated ability to take on accountability for complex pieces of work and to work autonomously.
- Excellent critical thinker with the capacity to think both strategically and tactically.
- Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity and maintain composure in high-pressure situations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation/ interpersonal skills.

**Baseline cleared (NV1 preferred), or willing to obtain and maintain Defence Security Clearance.**

The Position will be based in Scoresby, VIC.

Additional Information
**What you’ll love**

At Leidos you’ll enjoy 12 weeks’ paid parental leave as a primary carer, flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing and more. Foster your career through complete access** **to learning and development and mentoring opportunities, we have a strong track record of internal promotion and career transitions. Join a company who acknowledges “People First”.