Delivery Manager

Stefanini Group; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Stefanini Group in Richmond, VA is seeking a Delivery Manager for a long-term contract across the USA. You will plan, lead, and mentor cross-functional teams to deliver complex IT initiatives in an agile environment.

You will remove impediments, coach product owners and teams on backlogs, coordinate release and PI planning, and report on sprint metrics. The role requires strong communication, risk management, and decision-making skills.

Qualifications

• Seasoned professional with execution of agile practices.
• Single point of contact for impediments and coaching the team.
• Uses industry-standard best practices to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables.
• Knowledge of Agile concepts and coaching teams.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates cross-functional teams of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility.
• Acts as a primary communication hub between departments to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team.
• Coaches Product leaders on the roadmap and backlog management.
• Coaches the agile team on user story writing, sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
• Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps.
• Removes impediments for the agile teams
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner.
• Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities as necessary.
• Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution.
• Develops reports on sprint execution status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
• Keeps team accountable for delivering on planned outcomes (PI and sprint).

Skills

Agile coaching

Communication skills

Risk management

Decision making

Job description

Join us to co-create solutions for a better future!

Job Details

Delivery Manager, Richmond, VA

Posted: 10/16/2026

Job ID#: 65193

Job Category: Information Technology

Position Type: Contract

Duration: Long-Term

Remaining Positions: 1

Details

Stefanini Group is hiring!

Stefanini is looking for a Delivery Manager for Various Location across USA (Hybrid).

Responsibilities

• Plans, leads, organizes, and motivates cross functionalteamsof medium to medium-high complexityand visibility.
• Acts as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the teams to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time.
• Acts as a change agent and adapts processes to maximize productivity of the team.
• Coaches Product leaders on the roadmap and backlog management
• Coaches the agile team on user story writing, sizing and acceptance criteria definition.
• Drives development of release and sprint roadmaps.
• Removes impediments for the agile teams
• Ensures efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner.
• Coordinates and facilitates sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives.
• Partners with project and release managers in production deployment activities as necessary.
• Works with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog health and prepared for execution.
• Develops reports on sprint execution status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time.
• Keeps team accountable for delivering on planned outcomes (PI and sprint).

Qualifications

• Position requires a seasoned professional with a full understanding and experience with execution of agile practices.
• Delivery Manager provides varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influences activities on business-critical efforts.
• Serves as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching the team through challenges.
• Uses industry-standard best practices in order to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables, as well as compliance with all discipline processes and governance channels.
• Knowledge: Comprehensive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area, especially the ability to coach the team on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology.
• Communications: Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail, and oral and written communications skills tailored for the intended audience.
• Risk Management: The individual is responsible for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making and contributing to his or her function's risk management.
• Decision Making: Works independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives. Makes decisions within established or widely accepted standards. Achieves assigned/planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, training, business principles, and practical experience.

Listed salary ranges may vary based on experience, qualifications, and local market. Also, some positions may include bonuses or other incentives.

Stefanini takes pride in hiring top talent and developing relationships with our future employees. Our talent acquisition teams will never make an offer of employment without having a phone conversation with you. Those face-to-face conversations will involve a description of the job for which you have applied. We also speak with you about the process including interviews and job offers.

About Stefanini Group

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore and near shore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence. We are CMM Level 5 company.

Pay Range: $71.00 - $76.00