Tech Product & Delivery Lead, CI/CD (Denver | Relocation)

United Launch Alliance (ULA); Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 113,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Discretionary annual incentive bonus

Generous paid time off

Flexible work environments

Job summary

United Launch Alliance (ULA) seeks a Technical Product & Delivery Lead 3 (CI/CD Pipeline) to translate program-level features into actionable, well-defined stories for the Software Engineering organization at ULA.

The role is pivotal in delivery excellence, technical alignment, and stakeholder satisfaction, collaborating with Tech Leads, Solution Architects, Product Managers, and end users to ensure outcomes align with program goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) field from an accredited college or university.
• Strong backlog management and story-writing discipline; comfortable operating at execution-level detail.
• Technical fluency to engage substantively with Tech Leads and Solution Architects about feasibility and tradeoffs.
• Clear communicator in both written and oral form, able to translate between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Experience in a Scrum/SAFe team-level Product Owner capacity.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team delivery, coordinate dependencies, and manage stakeholder priorities.
• Consistent, high-quality work; dependable and proactive.
• Strong ability to leverage metrics (burn-up/down, unplanned vs planned work) to improve predictability and delivery quality.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the team-level backlog, ensuring alignment with Program Backlog priorities and strategic objectives.
• Write and refine epics and user stories with clear acceptance criteria and definition of done, collaborating with Tech Leads for technical feasibility and sequencing.
• Represent the voice of the customer and business needs in day-to-day team decisions and Agile ceremonies.
• Lead sprint planning, delivery, and roadmap execution, coordinating dependencies and managing stakeholder priorities.
• Accept completed work against acceptance criteria, elevate scope or priority conflicts as needed, and produce reporting for assigned areas.
• Develop and maintain RAID logs, support continuous improvement, and drive measurable outcomes across delivery scope.
• Facilitate onboarding, enablement, and upskilling for new team members and roles.
• Lead cross-team coordination for migration, modernization, and operational support initiatives (e.g., GitLab migrations, cloud ops readiness, build pipeline reliability).

Skills

Backlog management

Story writing

Scrum/SAFe

Technical fluency

Clear communication

Product ownership

Delivery leadership

Metrics-driven

GitLab administration

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Containerization

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

GitLab

AWS

EKS

Docker

Kubernetes

Bamboo

SonarQube

JFrog

Job description

United Launch Alliance (ULA) seeks a Technical Product & Delivery Lead 3 (CI/CD Pipeline) to translate program-level features into actionable, well-defined stories for the Software Engineering organization at ULA.

The role is pivotal in delivery excellence, technical alignment, and stakeholder satisfaction, collaborating with Tech Leads, Solution Architects, Product Managers, and end users to ensure outcomes align with program goals.