Team Manager

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

📋 Description

• Lead the design and advancement of continuous delivery processes, enhancing predictability, operational efficiency, and excellence in execution across engineering teams.

• Implement and refine agile methodologies, ensuring effective integration by development teams and partner functions.

• Define, track, and evaluate flow and delivery metrics, including lead time, cycle time, throughput, WIP, capacity, predictability, rework, and DORA metrics.

• Oversee team capacity planning, providing data-driven delivery forecasts grounded in historical data and forecasting models.

• Create dashboards and management reports to assess team performance and delivery flow.

• Collaborate with leaders and cross-functional teams to pinpoint bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Advocate for the implementation of best practices in flow management, collaboration, and governance within software engineering settings.

• Assist in the development of processes that adhere to regulatory standards, ensuring traceability, auditability, and segregation of duties in environments handling sensitive data.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in implementing and evolving agile practices within software engineering teams, extending beyond mere facilitation of ceremonies.

• Demonstrated ability to create, analyze, and manage flow and delivery metrics, such as lead time, cycle time, throughput, WIP, capacity, predictability, and rework.

• Practical understanding of DORA metrics and their application for enhancing organizational performance.

• Experience in capacity planning and delivery forecasting based on historical data.

• Familiarity with probabilistic forecasting techniques and metrics-driven management.

• Experience in defining and monitoring performance indicators that emphasize team and delivery system metrics over individual productivity metrics.

• Proven experience in managing and facilitating distributed teams in remote, in-office, or hybrid work environments.

• Proficient with work management and flow-tracking tools, such as Jira or Azure Boards.

• Capability to construct dashboards and derive insights for data-driven decision-making.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to convey information clearly through various communication and influence channels when engaging with leaders, business functions, and technical teams.

• Kanban certification or advanced knowledge (KMP or equivalent) is advantageous.

• Experience in regulated environments, particularly in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or similar industries, is a plus.

• Familiarity with organizations subject to traceability, auditability, and segregation-of-duties requirements is a plus.

• Knowledge of Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD), sensitive data protection, and process governance is a plus.

• Experience in structuring continuous delivery models and spearheading agile transformation in medium to large organizations is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible meal and food allowance (VA/VR Flex).

• Unimed health insurance.

• Uniodonto dental insurance.

• Group life insurance.

• TotalPass.

• Company participation in the Empresa Cidadã program, providing extended maternity and paternity leave.

• ZenKlub — two complimentary sessions per month.

• Education benefits.

• Certification incentives.

• Long-service award.

• Semiannual performance reviews with opportunities for growth.

• Feedback-oriented culture.

• Employee referral bonus.

• 100% remote work.

• Office space available for coworking in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.