Workstream 3 Delivery Manager

QBA Worldwide; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

QBA Worldwide is assembling a delivery leadership team for a major U.S. federal technology modernization program, delivering cloud-based AI-enabled software engineering capabilities.

The Delivery Manager will guide 25–50 Scrum teams, manage SDLC, risks, and dependencies, and ensure alignment with program goals. Responsibilities include coordinating with product owners, architects, DevSecOps, and client stakeholders, driving delivery metrics, and enabling release readiness across multiple

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT delivery, project management, workstream management, or Agile program delivery experience.
• Experience managing scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications across technical teams.
• Experience with Agile delivery, sprint planning, release planning, metrics, and status reporting.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, QA, security, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to ensure a robust, well-architected cloud solution that meets customer objectives.
• Manage the full SDLC, including AI-enabled delivery and production operations such as POAM and bug fixes.
• Plan and manage workstream scope, schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, and cross-team dependencies.
• Coordinate Agile team execution, sprint planning, release planning, backlog readiness, and delivery reporting.
• Collaborate with product owners, scrum masters, architects, business analysts, DevSecOps, testing teams, and client stakeholders to remove blockers.
• Track milestones, action items, staffing needs, quality indicators, and delivery metrics for the workstream.
• Prepare workstream status updates, leadership briefings, risk summaries, and decision materials.
• Support release readiness, UAT coordination, production deployment planning, and post-release follow-up.
• Ensure delivery practices align with program governance, compliance requirements, and client expectations.
• Use AI-assisted planning and reporting tools to improve forecasting, status reporting, and risk analysis.

Skills

IT delivery

Agile delivery

Cross-functional

Communication

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, or a related field

Job description

We are building a team for one of the U.S. Federal Government's largest technology modernization programs, underpinning the U.S. capital markets.

Built on AWS and leveraging an AI-powered software engineering platform, this program offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience with next-generation AI, Agentic AI, cloud technologies, and AI-driven engineering.

If you are looking for technically challenging work, exceptional learning, and a résumé-defining opportunity with national impact, I would love to connect.

Job Title

Workstream 3 Delivery Manager

Position Type

Full-Time

Location:

Reston, VA & client locations in Washington, D.C. area as required

Days Remote

1 day remote / 4 days onsite (Hybrid)

Position Summary

The Delivery Manager is responsible for delivery execution for a key workstream of the program. Workstream teams may vary from 25–50 resourced scrum teams. This role provides technical delivery management for Agile teams, manages risks and dependencies, tracks delivery performance, and ensures workstream commitments are planned, communicated, and delivered in alignment with program objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to ensure a robust, well-architected cloud solution that meets customer objectives.
• Manage the full SDLC, including AI-enabled delivery and production operations such as POAM and bug fixes.
• Plan and manage workstream scope, schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, and cross-team dependencies.
• Coordinate Agile team execution, sprint planning, release planning, backlog readiness, and delivery reporting.
• Collaborate with product owners, scrum masters, architects, business analysts, DevSecOps, testing teams, and client stakeholders to remove blockers.
• Track milestones, action items, staffing needs, quality indicators, and delivery metrics for the workstream.
• Prepare workstream status updates, leadership briefings, risk summaries, and decision materials.
• Support release readiness, UAT coordination, production deployment planning, and post-release follow-up.
• Ensure delivery practices align with program governance, compliance requirements, and client expectations.
• Use AI-assisted planning and reporting tools to improve forecasting, status reporting, and risk analysis.

Minimum Experience

• 10+ years of IT delivery, project management, workstream management, or Agile program delivery experience.
• Experience managing scope, schedules, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications across technical teams.
• Experience with Agile delivery, sprint planning, release planning, metrics, and status reporting.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, QA, security, and operations.

Mandatory Skills

• 10+ years of IT delivery, project management, workstream management, or Agile program delivery experience.
• Technical delivery management of Agile teams.
• Agile delivery, sprint planning, and release planning.
• Workstream scope, schedule, risk, issue, and dependency management.
• Delivery metrics and status reporting.
• Cross-functional team collaboration.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with product, engineering, QA, security, and operations teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to prioritize and self-start.
• Adaptability and flexibility as priorities shift.
• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, or a related field.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Federal IT modernization or financial-regulatory program experience.
• Experience with AWS-based delivery.
• DevSecOps experience.
• Experience with large-scale modernization programs.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted planning, reporting, risk analysis, or delivery-management tools.

Degrees And Certifications

• Required
• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, engineering, or a related field.