Description
We are seeking a Senior Agile Delivery Lead - AVP to join our Digital Asset Technology organisation. As a trusted partner to Digital Asset Technology leadership, you will help translate strategy into execution while ensuring alignment across engineering, architecture, product, operations, risk, compliance, legal, and external partners.
Purpose of the role Facilitates and supports Agile teams by ensuring they follow Scrum principles. To remove obstacles, enhance team collaboration, and ensure smooth communication, enabling the team to focus on delivering high-quality, iterative results. Facilitate Scrum events, promote continuous improvement, and act as a bridge between the team and external stakeholders.
Accountabilities
- Facilitate Events: Facilitate events, as needed, and ensure that all events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the timebox
- Support Iteration Execution: Ensure quality of ceremony artefacts and continuous customer value through iteration execution, maintain backlog refinement, and iterate on stakeholder feedback
- Optimize Flow: Identify and facilitate the removal of conflict impacting team flow, utilizing metrics to empower the team to communicate effectively, making all work visible
- Mitigate Risks: Identify and escalate risks to remove impediments and shield the Squad from interruptions
- Build High-Performing Teams: Foster and coach Agile Team attributes and continuous improvement, encourage stakeholder collaboration, deputise ‘in the moment leadership’, and drive high-performing team attributes
- Stakeholder Management: Facilitate stakeholder collaboration and build trust with stakeholders
- Governance and Reporting: Ensure data quality and provide representation at required governance forums, if applicable
Requirements
- Proven leadership with exceptional communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder management skills, effectively influencing senior leaders and driving strategic outcomes
- Extensive experience serving as a Chief of Staff, Program Manager, Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, or similar role, leading complex projects from planning through execution
- Demonstrated success aligning cross-functional teams across engineering, architecture, product, business, legal, risk, compliance, and operations to achieve shared objectives
- Considerable background facilitating Agile delivery practices across large-scale technology programs, ensuring on-time execution, transparency, and continuous improvement
- Expertise in executive governance, reporting, financial and workforce planning, delivery metrics, risk management, and data-driven decision-making in fast-paced, evolving environments
Preferred Skills
- Considerable understanding of digital asset platforms, blockchain infrastructure, tokenization, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, digital custody solutions, wallet technologies, and distributed ledger ecosystems
- Experience working with digital asset service providers, including custody platforms, wallet solutions, settlement networks, and DLT infrastructure vendors to support enterprise projects
- Knowledge of payments, brokerage, capital markets, liquidity management, settlement, and post-trade operating models within financial services environments
- Proven ability to operate within highly regulated organisations, managing third-party/vendor governance, compliance requirements, and risk considerations
- Experience leading large-scale technology transformation programs with executive visibility and cross-functional coordination, complemented by Agile certifications such as CSM, PSM, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe RTE, or equivalent
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- Life insurance
- Paid leave for qualifying circumstances
- Eligible for an incentive award