IT Delivery Lead - NDS Federal

Summary of Essential Job Functions

• Individual Contributor:
  • Actively contribute as a member of the development team, engaging in coding, testing, support, and/or release management activities.
  • Write, review, and maintain code to ensure quality and functionality.
  • Participate in pair programming, code reviews, and test automation efforts.
  • Write and execute unit and integration tests in collaboration with QA to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date technical documentation, including documenting code and system design decisions.
  • Cookordination and management of the path to production, including release planning, scheduling, and ensuring successful and timely deployments.
• Leadership Activities:
  • Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, providing support and mentorship to team members.
  • Manage day-to-day work and ensure timely delivery, balancing Run/Support tasks with prioritized items from Product Strategy.
  • Remove team impediments to facilitate progress, and ensure risks are logged and escalated to Program Managers as needed.

Technical Expertise

• Solid understanding of the delivery goals of the team, stakeholders, and expected outcome of initiatives.
• Ability to represent technical debt and initiatives for backlog prioritization.
• Lead team in representing technical debt and initiatives for backlog prioritization.

Leadership Agility

• Promotes agile principles and fosters an Agile mindset within the team.

Decision Making

• Capable of strategizing and planning effectively in the face of an uncertain future state.
• Demonstrated identification of appropriate deliverables and a clear course of action to meet requirements.
• Considers all relevant factors and uses appropriate decision-making criteria.

Technical Skills

• Familiarity with technical documentation, security, and compliance processes and expected outputs.
• Ensures processes and policies are adhered to by the team.
• Structured systematic approaches and whole system thinking.
• Facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Workflow/Gap-analysis, Process Modeling, Use Case Analysis, Process and Context Diagramming, Data and/or Requirements Modeling.

Relationship Building

• Develops internal and external trusting, professional relationships.
• Impacts others' thinking, decisions, or behavior through inclusive practices and relationship building.
• Drives action through influence, not authority.
• Self-Leadership:
  • Demonstrates authenticity, courage, and trustworthiness in leadership.
  • Shows self-awareness and actively seeks personal growth and development.
  • Manages ambiguity, learns from setbacks, and adapts to changing situations.

Time & Project Management

• Strong time management, project management, and administrative skills.
• Ensures transparency in work, ticket management, and roadmap coordination.

Annual Compensation Range

Annual compensation range for this role is $105,000 - $130,000 depending on experience.

Benefits Package

• Medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, generous earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance & AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance-based incentive pay, short- and long-term disability, and a robust wellness program.

Contact Information

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Nelnet is a Drug Free and Tobacco Free Workplace.