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Program Director

Virtusa

New York City, New York

Job description

Overview

As Delivery Lead, you guide teams to deliver high-quality products by applying agile principles and delivery best practices. You align team work with organizational objectives and act as a coach, facilitator, and change agent to improve outcomes. You represent the team in leadership forums, surface risks, and collaborate with leaders to forecast delivery. This role blends strategic oversight with hands-on delivery leadership in a healthcare context, shaping how we scale and sustain value.

Responsibilities
  • Guide teams through agile principles and delivery practices
  • Ensure alignment of team delivery with organizational goals
  • Represent team in leadership forums with clear status updates
  • surface risks, impediments, and dependencies and address them
  • Forecast delivery with leadership and manage release planning
  • Provide agile practice leadership and education across the organization
  • Drive continuous improvement through metrics and coaching
  • Collaborate with enterprise/external teams on projects and dependencies
Key requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years in software engineering (healthcare preferred)
  • 5+ years leading delivery teams
  • Proficient with Rally and JIRA (Rally preferred)
  • Experience with Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe
  • Strong SDLC knowledge and communication skills
  • Ability to influence leadership on agile practices and tools
  • Experience facilitating Scrum dependencies and release management
  • Project management support for Business Partner projects
  • Ability to lead cross-team initiatives and translate metrics into improvements
  • leadership
  • coaching
  • excellent communication
  • Kanban
  • Scrum
  • Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)

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