Senior Software Delivery Lead

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

📋 Description

• Oversee technical delivery across several Agile software development teams.

• Define and communicate expectations for software architecture, engineering, integration, testing, deployment, and release.

• Facilitate reviews on architecture, system design, interfaces, code quality, security, and release readiness.

• Manage dependencies across teams, technical risks, technical debt, integration issues, capacity constraints, and operational dependencies.

• Direct software engineering efforts through requirements analysis, design, development, integration, verification, validation, deployment, and maintenance.

• Supervise requirements gathering, breakdown, estimation, prioritization, and documentation.

• Lead development, integration, testing, staging, and other preproduction environments.

• Coordinate release and Sprint planning across various Agile teams.

• Facilitate Sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, Sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives.

• Provide weekly updates on progress and software demonstrations for Government stakeholders.

• Oversee activities related to configuration management and configuration control.

• Establish and enforce criteria for release readiness.

• Coordinate go/no-go recommendations and deployment to operational environments.

• Supervise post-release verification and stabilization processes.

• Manage urgent software security fixes and cybersecurity initiatives.

• Advocate for automated builds, code control, regression testing, security scanning, integration testing, and deployment automation.

• Track performance in delivery, release predictability, defect trends, security issues, technical debt, rework, dependencies, and team capacity.

• Mentor architects, technical leads, developers, testers, and Agile delivery staff.

• Support technical briefings, program reviews, release assessments, demonstrations, audits, and Government decision-making meetings.

• Provide updates on delivery status, schedules, accomplishments, risks, issues, dependencies, corrective actions, and release forecasts for program reporting.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or a higher level of security clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience as allowed by the applicable labor category.

• At least ten years of relevant experience in software engineering, systems engineering, software architecture, technical delivery, application development, or a related discipline.

• Proven experience managing or coordinating multiple Agile software development teams.

• Experience leading software delivery for federal programs or clients.

• Background in leading software architecture, system design, technical reviews, secure engineering, and release readiness activities.

• Expertise in directing software delivery throughout requirements, design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

• Familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, configuration management, and secure software development practices.

• Experience managing cross-team dependencies, technical risks, delivery timelines, release criteria, and stakeholder expectations.

• Coordination experience among software development, testing, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, operations, and Government teams.

• Proficiency in evaluating test results, defects, security findings, documentation, deployment plans, and rollback readiness prior to release.

• Experience in developing or reviewing architecture documents, system design documents, interface documents, requirements traceability records, release documentation, or similar technical artifacts.

• Capability to translate complex technical details into clear recommendations, briefings, status reports, and delivery decisions.

• Strong leadership, facilitation, communication, analytical, organizational, and technical problem-solving abilities.

• Preferred certifications and experience are not mandatory, including PMP, PMI-ACP, ScrumMaster, SAFe, product owner, DevSecOps, cloud, architecture, systems engineering, and ITIL certifications.

🏝️ Benefits

• Occasional travel or after-hours support may be required.

• Regular full-time employment.