The Role
We are scaling up a high-performing delivery team for a global client and we need serious talent, fast. If you're a senior engineer or delivery lead who thrives in fast-paced, onsite teams, this is your move.
📍 Location: WFO or Onsite, Colombo (Sri Lanka)
📄 Category: Full-time, 12-month contract (1 YR FTC)
⏱️ Notice Period: Immediate joiners or up to 1 month
💼 Experience: Minimum 5+ years hands-on exposure
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives for the squad.
- Identify and remove impediments by blocking the squad, escalating quickly when resolution is outside squad scope.
- Coach the squad on Scrum, Kanban, and agile engineering practices (pairing, CI/CD, DoD, DoR).
- Report squad health, delivery predictability, throughput, and risk to engineering leadership.
- Facilitate release readiness and post-release retrospectives with the squad.
- Provides direction, coaching and guidance to team members for their career and professional development.
Education & Relevant Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience facilitating agile delivery with Scrum or Kanban.
- CSM, PSM, or equivalent certification is preferred.
Knowledge, Skill, Abilities & Others (KSAOs)
- Strong working knowledge of Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence, and agile reporting tools.
- Good understanding of software delivery practices (CI/CD, branching, release processes).
- Familiar with DORA metrics and delivery health indicators.
- Fluent in English Language.
- Skilled facilitator able to run focused, outcome-driven ceremonies.
- Strong coaching and servant-leadership mindset.
- Effective conflict-resolution and stakeholder-management skills.
- Comfortable with data, metrics, and trend analysis.
- Demonstrates consistent delivery of squad improvements and agile health.
Contract
Colombo, Sri Lanka