Senior Manager - Scrum
G Forty Two General Trading LLC · Abu Dhabi
Job description
About the role
You will play a key role in building a predictable, high‑accountability delivery system across multiple AI product and engineering squads. The role owns the cross‑squad Agile cadence, delivery governance, dependency management, and leadership visibility needed to move complex initiatives from roadmap to production.
Key responsibilities
- Design and run the Agile delivery operating model across multiple product and engineering squads with clear cadences, decision points, and accountability.
- Establish consistent sprint and program governance covering planning, backlog readiness, reviews, retrospectives, release coordination, and delivery health.
- Translate product roadmaps and strategic priorities into integrated delivery plans, milestones, sequencing, and measurable outcomes.
- Own cross‑squad dependency management, surface constraints early, and drive decisions that protect critical paths and production commitments.
- Coach Scrum Masters and delivery practitioners on facilitation, flow, forecasting, risk management, and practical Agile application.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to improve backlog quality, capacity planning, prioritization, and balance between feature delivery, technical work, and operational reliability.
- Define and monitor delivery metrics that reveal flow, predictability, quality, risk, and value.
- Build concise executive reporting that explains progress, material risks, dependencies, decisions required, and confidence levels.
Required profile
- 10–15 years of experience in Agile delivery, Scrum, program execution, or a closely related discipline within technology, AI, SaaS, or digital‑product organizations.
- Proven experience leading delivery across several product and engineering squads with shared dependencies and concurrent release commitments.
- Strong command of Agile and Scrum fundamentals with the judgment to adapt practices to the work.
- Experience coaching Scrum Masters or delivery leads and raising execution maturity across teams.
- Ability to turn complex delivery data into clear forecasts, executive narratives, and actionable decisions.
- Strong systems thinking across product priorities, engineering constraints, capacity, risk, quality, and stakeholder commitments.
Required skills
- Agile
- Scrum
- SAFe
- Jira
- Confluence
- Portfolio planning tools
- Delivery analytics
What we offer
- Open, diverse and inclusive culture with a global vision focused on groundbreaking AI innovations.
- Outstanding learning, development and growth opportunities via structured training programs and high‑tech projects.
- Competitive remuneration package with healthcare, education support, leave benefits and other perks.
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