Agile Delivery Lead

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Job Description:

Crowe is seeking an experienced Agile Delivery Lead (Release Train Engineer) to play a pivotal leadership role within our Product Engineering organization. This is a high impact role accountable for optimizing the flow of value across our Insight Audit program, enabling highperforming, distributed Agile teams to deliver highquality, scalable software solutions aligned to business outcomes.

In this role, you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and business leaders to translate strategy into executable roadmaps, ensure predictable delivery, remove impediments to flow, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and elevate how Agile delivery is practiced at scale. You will serve as a trusted advisor, coach, and change leader helping teams deliver meaningful outcomes through modern, data driven, and AI-enabled delivery practices.

Success in this role is measured by delivery predictability, flow efficiency, quality outcomes, and the program's ability to consistently achieve business objectives.

Key Responsibilities
Program Execution & Value Delivery

• Own and optimize end-to-end delivery for one or more scaled Agile programs, ensuring predictable outcomes and continuous flow of value.
• Translate strategic priorities into integrated, executable roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
• Enable teams to achieve Program Increment (PI) objectives with predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and business leaders to balance demand, capacity,and investment decisions to optimize value delivery and delivery predictability.

Program Increment Planning & Cadence

• Lead and facilitate Program Increment Planning events, ensuring readiness across vision, backlogs, business value, dependencies, and logistics.
• Own PIlevel communications, clearly articulating objectives, business value, delivery metrics, risks and achieved outcomes.

Leadership, Coaching & Change Enablement

• Serve as a servant leader and coach to Agile teams, Product Owners, Product Managers, and organizational leaders.
• Drive adoption and maturity of AgileLean principles, practices, and mindsets to maximize the delivery of customer value.
• Function as a change agent, influencing and leading organizational transformation through coaching, facilitation, training, and process optimization.

Transparency, Metrics & Executive Communication

• Provide transparency into program health, progress, flow efficiency, quality outcomes,risks, and cross-team dependencies using meaningful, outcome-focused metrics.
• Lead executive-level reviews covering roadmap status, delivery metrics, PI readiness, and achieved outcomes.

Risk, Dependency & Governance Management

• Proactively identify, manage, and drive resolution of programlevel risks, impediments, and crossteam dependencies.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and leadership stakeholders to remove obstacles and ensure alignment.
• Ensure appropriate program governance through oversight of required delivery artifacts and documentation (e.g., program initiation materials, change requests, and closures) in alignment with organizational standards.

AIEnabled Delivery & Continuous Improvement

• Leverage AIenabled features within Agile lifecycle and delivery tools (e.g., Azure DevOps or similar platforms) to enhance planning accuracy, dependency visibility, forecasting, and delivery insights.
• Utilize data and AIassisted analytics to identify trends, predict risks, and support continuous improvement at the program level.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Business, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5 to 7 years of progressive experience in Agile delivery, program management, or related leadership roles.
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role within a scaled Agile program or multi-team environment.
• Strong knowledge of AgileLean principles, methodologies, and frameworks.
• Agile or Scrum certification (e.g., CSM, PSM, PMIACP); scaling Agile certification is strongly preferred (e.g., SAFe Agilist, SAFe Program Consultant, RTE).
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices, including CI/CD, TDD, BDD, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience using Azure DevOps or similar tools for backlog, program, and delivery management.
• We appreciate talent from all over the United States and are willing to consider candidates who may not be located near a Crowe office location for this role/opening.

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We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.

Our Benefits:
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How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:
Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

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