Azure DevOps / Agile Delivery Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and govern Azure DevOps (ADO) projects, boards, workflows, permissions, and reporting.
• Drive visibility into project status, dependencies, risks, roadblocks, deadlines, and downstream impacts.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, and sprint reviews.
• Create and maintain high-quality Epics, Features, User Stories, Tasks, Test Cases, and Defects with full traceability.
• Generate dashboards, reports, and executive-level project insights for stakeholders and leadership.
• Monitor sprint health using Agile metrics such as velocity, burndown, capacity, and work-item compliance.
• Manage resource capacity, availability, and scheduling constraints across project teams.
• Track and communicate project risks, dependencies, delays, and cross-functional impacts.
• Ensure work progresses through the complete delivery lifecycle including development, testing, approvals, and production deployment.
• Support CI/CD pipeline governance, approvals, and delivery processes.
• Configure custom Azure DevOps fields, workflows, boards, and reporting structures.
• Provision new ADO projects and manage user security, roles, and permissions.
• Promote Agile best practices, process compliance, and continuous improvement across teams.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with Azure DevOps administration, governance, reporting, and portfolio management.
• Proven success managing complex cross-functional projects, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Ability to identify, assess, and communicate risks, blockers, delays, and project impacts to stakeholders.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline management and governance.
• Strong understanding of backlog management, sprint planning, Kanban boards, test management, and defect tracking.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and organizational skills.
• Experience supporting enterprise Data & Analytics or technology delivery initiatives is highly preferred.
• Continuous improvement of Agile delivery processes and ADO best practices.

About the Role

Candidates need to work onsite. Remote candidates will not be considered.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $52.96 - $71.30/hr.

Schedule

This is a Contract position based out of Winston-Salem, NC.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Winston-Salem, NC.