Delivery Lead

Qantas; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Qantas is seeking a Delivery Lead to oversee agile squads across digital streams from Adelaide’s Product and Innovation Centre. You will coach teams, optimize delivery flow, and drive continuous improvement to deliver customer value and innovation.

The role focuses on planning delivery, mentoring agile maturity, and removing impediments to ensure timely value delivery. Based in Adelaide, you’ll help shape culture and ways of working at the new centre.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as an Agile Delivery Lead or Agile Iteration Manager in a digital environment.
• Plan and coordinate delivery from discovery through to release, optimizing time to value.
• Coach individuals and squads in adopting Agile mindsets and practices, enabling high-performing teams.
• Proficient in Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking, and other frameworks.
• Strong capability in risk and issue identification and management.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate product delivery, ensuring alignment to agile practices.
• Coach teams to improve agile maturity and collaboration, removing impediments to delivery flow.
• Drive continuous improvement, reduce waste, and optimise resource utilisation.
• Support squad ramp-up at the Adelaide centre and shape new ways of working.

Skills

Agile Delivery Lead

Scrum

Kanban

Design Thinking

Coaching

Stakeholder management

Communication

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Job description

Job Description

• At Qantas, our teams come together to create new and unique experiences for our customers


• A fantastic opportunity to lead and coach squads to deliver world class products


• Full-time permanent position based at our new Product and Innovation Centre in Adelaide

Join Qantas in our brand-new Product and Innovation Centre located in Adelaide to help meet evolving consumer needs by enabling agile teams to deliver faster, more adaptive solutions that prioritise customer value, continuous feedback, and innovation at every stage of the product lifecycle.

As the Delivery Lead, you will sit across digital product streams including mobile applications, conversational AI and customer servicing. You will lead agile squads to deliver features aligned with strategic goals, while mentoring teams to improve delivery practices and agile maturity. You’ll foster a culture of autonomy, collaboration, and transparency.

Your primary responsibility is to plan and coordinate product delivery, ensuring alignment to agreed agile practices and frameworks. You’ll coach teams to improve agile maturity, foster collaboration, and remove impediments to maintain delivery flow. By driving continuous improvement, reducing waste, and optimising resource utilisation, you’ll help teams deliver value early and consistently.

This is a unique opportunity to play an instrumental role in shaping culture, ways of working and support squad ramp-up at the new Qantas Product Innovation Centre based in Adelaide.

You’ll have:

• 3+ years as an Agile Delivery Lead or Agile Iteration Manager in a digital environment


• Proven ability to plan and coordinate delivery from discovery through to release, optimising time to value


• Demonstrated ability to coach individuals and squads in adopting Agile mindsets and practices, enabling high-performing teams


• Proficient in multiple agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking, and other frameworks


• Strong capability in risk and issue identification and management


• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills


• Strong written and verbal communication skills


• Proficient in Jira, Confluence and Miro

Why Qantas?

At Qantas, your career can take you further than you imagined. You’ll join a team where creativity and passion drive success. Together we dream big and deliver even bigger.

You’ll find diverse opportunities to grow, personally and professionally. From day one, you’ll be supported with hands‑on training, coaching, and formal learning programs designed to help you excel. Your development is our priority because we know that when you thrive, so do our customers.

And while this role is your starting point at Qantas, it’s just the beginning. We have a proud history of helping our people explore new paths and reach new heights - the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.

• We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.


• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and the option to purchase additional paid leave for eligible employees.


• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment.You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.


• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.

Be a part of something special and play your part in the Qantas story – get in touch today.

Applications close on the 16th of September