Senior Delivery Lead

We are looking for an experienced Agile Delivery Lead to support our value stream teams in delivering high-quality outcomes. The ADL will work in close collaboration with the Product Manager of the team and Tech Leads  across each capability, ensuring that delivery is well-coordinated, transparent, and aligned with business priorities.

In this role, the ADL will be responsible for running two squads within the value stream, ensuring delivery consistency and alignment across both.

The ideal candidate is a strong facilitator, skilled in agile ways of working, and able to foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Expected travelling time (UK and USA): 0%-15%, varies according to project/client. You will be working with teams across different time zones and locations.

Requirements

Facilitate Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) for two squads, ensuring focus, alignment, and accountability.

Partner with the Product Manager to balance delivery priorities, scope, and timelines across squads.

Collaborate with Tech Leads across engineering, QA, and other capabilities to coordinate dependencies and unblock delivery.

Maintain visibility of delivery progress, risks, and issues across the value stream, communicating effectively with stakeholders.

Coordinate with other PMs, TLs, and ADLs across the business to manage cross-team dependencies.

Drive continuous improvement within the squads, fostering a culture of learning and adaptability.

Act as a servant leader, enabling the squads to own their delivery and operate with autonomy.

Ensure alignment of delivery with broader organisational objectives and value stream goals.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as an Agile Delivery Lead, or similar role in an agile environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or similar) and delivery practices.
• Experience managing delivery across multiple squads.
• Excellent facilitation and communication skills, able to bring together diverse perspectives and drive alignment.
• Experience working in a value stream or product-based delivery model.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across Product, Engineering, and Business functions.
• Ability to balance delivery discipline with adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with Agile metrics and reporting to track delivery health and progress.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in large-scale organisations with multiple value streams.
• Exposure to tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or equivalent for delivery tracking.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and how they support continuous delivery.

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance – because health comes first.
• Flexible working hours.
• Open holidays – take the time you need for yourself.
• Profit distribution for everyone.
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences – create your own training plan.
• Child Care vouchers.

Other Good Things:

• Choose the Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs.
• Unlimited hotspot usage (PT), for work or leisure.
• Amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to connect with the team in person. Remote is also an option.
• A wide range of snacks at our offices to keep you fed and healthy.
• Partnerships with local businesses.

Most of all, you get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organising attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, and work collaboratively. Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera, we craft software with people we love.

We are 1000+ techies working from anywhere in the world who love to implement the best engineering practices and use the latest tech stack to deliver web and mobile applications for over 100 well-known international clients since we started.

We partner with our clients to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, and the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work, and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile and collaborative environment.

Before applying, get to know How we Hire and take a look at our Handbook !

Our offices are located in: Portugal (Aveiro, Coimbra, Porto) | UK (Leicester) | USA (San Diego, San Francisco) | India (Bengaluru, Chennai) |Romania (Cluj-Napoca) | Brazil (Blumenau)