Delivery Manager

Delivery Manager

The Delivery Manager ensures predictable, efficient, and compliant delivery across a product-aligned technology team. They focus on managing flow, coordinating cross-team activities, removing friction, and enabling engineering and product leaders to focus on value delivery. The Manager drives operational clarity, delivery cadence, and cross-team alignment to support high-quality outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Delivery Planning & Execution
• Establish and maintain predictable delivery rhythms (e.g., iterations, release cycles).
• Facilitate planning ceremonies and translate roadmaps into executable increments.
• Align scope, timing, and resource needs with product and engineering leadership.
• Track delivery plans, forecasts, and progress to ensure flow and prevent bottlenecks.
• Surface and escalate impediments to maintain uninterrupted delivery.

• Flow Optimization, Risk, and Dependency Management
• Analyze cycle time, lead time, and throughput to identify efficiency gaps.
• Implement practices that reduce delays, context switching, and delivery waste.
• Coordinate and track cross-team dependencies across platform, application, infrastructure, and security.
• Maintain risk visibility and mitigation plans to prevent downstream delivery issues.
• Partner with operational teams to measure and improve delivery KPIs.

• Governance, Release, and Environment Coordination
• Ensure adherence to SDLC, compliance, DevOps, and change management requirements.
• Validate readiness for release events, including documentation, approvals, and test progression.
• Coordinate release schedules and facilitation of go/no-go checkpoints.
• Track environment availability, conflicts, and required data or integrations.
• Communicate delivery status, risks, and progress to stakeholders in accessible formats.

What You'll Need Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field preferred (or equivalent experience).

Work Experience Years of Experience

• 4-6 years of experience in delivery coordination, project delivery, agile operations, or similar roles
• Strong delivery and flow management capabilities (planning, forecasting, tracking).
• Ability to analyze metrics to evaluate delivery health and throughput.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Proficiency

• Skilled in risk management, dependency coordination, and issue escalation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills; able to translate technical updates into business-friendly language.
• Familiarity with SDLC, change control, and compliance requirements. Skilled
• close attention to detail and the ability to maintain operational clarity across teams.

About Us

AgFirst Farm Credit Bank provides financing, as well as technology and other value-added services, to association partners so they can lend to rural residents and agricultural operations of all sizes. We take pride in investing in our employees, our partners and our community.

Find out more on AgFirst.com.

Job Info

• Job Identification 4654
• Job Category Information Technology
• Posting Date 04/17/2026, 03:21 PM
• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations AgFirst