Agile Delivery Lead (contract)

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Delivery Lead supporting the Product Owner within the LoanIQ product organization.
• Drive Agile delivery execution, ensuring teams adhere to Agile best practices and delivery commitments.
• Lead and facilitate meetings, standing in for the Product Owner when necessary, and ensure discussions result in clear actions and outcomes.
• Cookordination delivery activities across multiple products and teams, managing dependencies, risks, and timelines.
• Prepare executive-level reporting, status updates, presentations, and communications for leadership stakeholders.
• Organize and streamline large volumes of information, distilling key insights, priorities, risks, and decisions for leadership consumption.
• Support product maturity initiatives and Agile transformation efforts across the broader organization.
• Facilitate cross-product synchronization and release coordination to ensure successful delivery across interconnected programs.
• Partner closely with business, product, technology, and operational stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
• Proactively identify opportunities to remove administrative and coordination burdens from the Product Owner, enabling greater focus on strategy and business priorities.
• Track action items, decisions, dependencies, and risks, ensuring timely follow-up and resolution.

Qualifications

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Experience serving as a Delivery Lead, Program Coordinator, Scrum Master, Product Operations Lead, or similar role in an Agile environment.
• Strong experience supporting Product Owners and senior leaders through coordination, reporting, and execution management.
• Demonstrated success facilitating meetings and driving outcomes with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience operating in portfolio-level or multi-product delivery environments.
• Familiarity with release coordination, dependency management, and cross-team synchronization.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, and Agile delivery best practices.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including executive-facing communications.
• Strong organizational and administrative capabilities with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Self-starter with high initiative, strong accountability, and the ability to operate independently with minimal direction.
• Experience within Commercial Lending, Loan Accounting, or Loan Servicing environments (preferred).
• Exposure to LoanIQ products, platforms, or implementations (preferred).
• Knowledge of lending-related processes including (preferred): General Ledger, Loan Accounting, Payments, Tax Reporting, Loan Servicing Operations.
• Experience supporting large financial services organizations.
• Prior experience working with Wells Fargo or similar banking institutions is a plus.
• Agile certifications such as CSM, SAFe Agilist, PMI-ACP, or equivalent are desirable.