Azure DevOps Lead – ALM and Program Delivery Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Set up organizations, projects, teams, area paths, and iteration paths within Azure DevOps

• Organize Epics, Features, User Stories, Tasks, Bugs, and impediments

• Configure boards, columns, swimlanes, filters, queries, and dashboards

• Establish required fields, transition rules, as well as entry and exit criteria

• Set up permissions, access groups, and segregation by workstream

• Develop templates for the CRM, Portal, Integration, and Data workstreams

• Assist with the migration or initial loading of work items

• Define the sprint model, duration, and cadence

• Set policies for backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives

• Structure the Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD)

• Guide the creation, breakdown, and prioritization of cards

• Define how business and technical approvals should be represented

• Establish rules for blockers, dependencies, scope changes, and replanning

• Create guidelines for baseline dates, forecast dates, and evidence related to changes

• Train Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Tech Leads, PMO personnel, and development teams

• Specify the integration between Azure DevOps and Microsoft Project

• Organize the program’s Integrated Master Schedule

• Link Features, releases, and deliverables to milestones in the master schedule

• Define dependency management across CRM, Portal, Integration, Data, and other workstreams

• Establish the procedure for updating the baseline, forecast, critical path, and variances

• Avoid duplication of operational management between Azure DevOps and Microsoft Project

• Structure the use of Azure Test Plans and defect management connected to User Stories

• Define entry and exit criteria for each environment

• Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, executions, defects, and evidence

• Support integrations between testing and quality tools and Azure DevOps pipelines

• Organize evidence and approval management for promotion across environments

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in technology, delivery, or Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

• Practical experience with Azure DevOps

• Involvement in two or more complete Azure DevOps setups

• Experience working on programs with multiple projects or squads

• Hands-on experience with Azure Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Test Plans, Dashboards, and Analytics

• Advanced understanding of Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid methodologies

• Familiarity with Microsoft Project, ideally with master schedules (Integrated Master Schedule)

• Knowledge of release, dependency, environment, and test management

• Understanding of Azure Test Plans, including test cases, suites, plans, and manual execution

• Knowledge of defect management linked to User Stories

• Experience with functional, integration, regression, UAT, and smoke testing

• Familiarity with environment-specific entry and exit criteria

• Knowledge of integrations with Postman/Newman, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, JMeter, SonarQube, and Azure DevOps pipelines

• Ability to lead workshops and provide user training

• Advanced proficiency in English

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to defer the two-month period