Delivery Lead - Acquisition & Sustainment

Job description

**About the Organization** Now is a great time to join Redhorse Corporation. We are a solution-driven company delivering data insights and technology solutions to customers with missions critical to U.S. national interests. We’re looking for thoughtful, skilled professionals who thrive as trusted partners building technology-agnostic solutions and want to apply their talents supporting customers with difficult and important mission sets. **About the Role** Redhorse is transforming how the Department of Defense (DoD) utilizes data and technology. We are seeking a highly skilled Delivery lead to join our team supporting the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)). You will play a critical role in advancing data-driven decision-making across the DoD, designing and implementing robust data solutions that directly impact national security initiatives and investments. This is a high-impact position offering significant opportunity to shape the future of DoD data management and analytics. ### Key Responsibilities End-to-End Delivery & Execution - Take ownership of the team's delivery lifecycle, ensuring data products are delivered on time, within scope, and to quality standards. - Ensure the product backlog is prioritized, refined, and clearly understood by the cross-functional team. - Track and communicate team metrics (e.g., velocity, sprint burn-down, lead time) to forecast delivery and identify areas for process optimization. - Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve impediments and blockers that hinder the team’s progress. Agile Facilitation & Team Leadership - Guide and coach the team in engineering best practices. - Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture rooted in trust, transparency, and continuous learning. - Protect the team from external distractions and scope creep during active sprints. Enterprise Stakeholder & Dependency Management - Act as the primary bridge between the execution team and wider enterprise stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of progress, risks, and release schedules. - Navigate a highly matrixed enterprise environment to manage complex dependencies with external teams. - Prepare and deliver executive-level status reports and delivery roadmaps. Data Product Advocacy & Compliance - Ensure delivery aligns with enterprise data governance and security standards. - Possess a strong working understanding of the data product lifecycle (data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and visualization) to effectively communicate with technical team members and validate delivery estimates. - Facilitate discussions around data quality, testing protocols, and CI/CD pipelines specific to data environments. ### Required Experience/Clearance - Experience: 6+ years in a Delivery Lead, Agile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, or Technical Project Manager role. - Data Literacy: Proven experience delivering data-centric projects (e.g., Data Warehousing, Machine Learning models, BI/Analytics dashboards, ETL/ELT pipelines). - Agile Expertise: Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and how to pragmatically apply them in an enterprise setting. - Enterprise Navigation: Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies, risks, and stakeholders in a complex, large-scale corporate environment. - Tools: High proficiency with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps) and collaboration software. - Preferred: Certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI-ACP, or SAFe Agilist. - Familiarity with modern enterprise data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/Azure/GCP data services, dbt). - Secret level security clearance.