Project Lead and Delivery Manager
Job Description
Job DescriptionWhy Join T12 Technologies?
T12 Technologies LLC is a professional development company prioritizing employee growth by providing continuous education, training, and career advancement opportunities. We cultivate a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative work culture, allowing employees to contribute ideas and engage in impactful projects. By joining our team, you’ll be part of an initiative dedicated to delivering high-quality services and support, making a meaningful difference in public health efforts.
Overview
We’re looking for a hands-on Project Lead & Delivery Manager to drive planning, execution, and delivery for complex IT initiatives. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, and quality—while enabling agile teams to deliver working software iteratively.
Key Responsibilities
- On day-to-day delivery across one or more agile teams, including scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, and quality.
- Create and maintain delivery plans aligned to the product roadmap; lead status reviews and working sessions; and provide clear, timely reporting.
- Identify risks and issues early, drive mitigation and resolution, and communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.
- Facilitate collaboration across engineering, product, design, operations, and external partners/vendors.
- Define and track key milestones, critical path activities, testing approach, release readiness, and acceptance criteria.
- Support agile ways of working by facilitating ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, reviews/demos, retrospectives) and removing blockers (Scrum Master as needed).
- Maintain delivery artifacts (plans, RAID logs, decisions, documentation) and help teams continuously improve.
- Lead stakeholder communications: set expectations, gather feedback, and keep partners aligned on progress and outcomes.
- Serve as Scrum Master (as needed) to identify and remove blockers to delivery.
- Mentor and develop team members to ensure engagement, participation in ceremonies, and meaningful contribution.
- Establish a sustainable delivery pace and a collaborative team culture.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Business/Public Administration, Design, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Experience:
- 10+ years of project/program delivery experience, including leading complex IT/software initiatives.
- Experience leading agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), including planning, estimation, backlog readiness, and release management.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills—able to translate between technical and non-technical audiences and drive decisions.
Skills:
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally with senior military and civilian leadership.
- Proficiency in performance tracking, reporting, and data-driven decision-making.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading organizational change management across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Familiarity with modern web platforms and tools (e.g., Cloudflare, static sites/pages, JavaScript, Perl, databases, Salesforce).
- Experience applying PMI PMBOK® practices and artifacts in a software delivery environment.
- Exposure to DevOps/CI/CD, test-driven development, and observability practices.