Delivery Lead - Acquisition & Sustainment

About the Role

Redhorse is transforming how the Department of Defense (DoD) utilizes data and technology. We are seeking a highly skilled Delivery lead to join our team supporting the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)). You will play a critical role in advancing data-driven decision-making across the DoD, designing and implementing robust data solutions that directly impact national security initiatives and investments. This is a high-impact position offering significant opportunity to shape the future of DoD data management and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Delivery & Execution

• • Take ownership of the team's delivery lifecycle, ensuring data products are delivered on time, within scope, and to quality standards.
  • Ensure the product backlog is prioritized, refined, and clearly understood by the cross-functional team.
  • Track and communicate team metrics (e.g., velocity, sprint burn-down, lead time) to forecast delivery and identify areas for process optimization.
  • Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve impediments and blockers that hinder the team’s progress.

  Agile Facilitation & Team Leadership

  • • Guide and coach the team in engineering best practices.
    • Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture rooted in trust, transparency, and continuous learning.
    • Protect the team from external distractions and scope creep during active sprints.

    Enterprise Stakeholder & Dependency Management

    • • Act as the primary bridge between the execution team and wider enterprise stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of progress, risks, and release schedules.
      • Navigate a highly matrixed enterprise environment to manage complex dependencies with external teams.
      • Prepare and deliver executive-level status reports and delivery roadmaps.

      Data Product Advocacy & Compliance

      • • Ensure delivery aligns with enterprise data governance and security standards.
        • Possess a strong working understanding of the data product lifecycle (data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and visualization) to effectively communicate with technical team members and validate delivery estimates.
        • Facilitate discussions around data quality, testing protocols, and CI/CD pipelines specific to data environments.

Required Experience/Clearance

• Experience: 6+ years in a Delivery Lead, Agile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, or Technical Project Manager role.
• Data Literacy: Proven experience delivering data-centric projects (e.g., Data Warehousing, Machine Learning models, BI/Analytics dashboards, ETL/ELT pipelines).
• Agile Expertise: Deep understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and how to pragmatically apply them in an enterprise setting.
• Enterprise Navigation: Demonstrated ability to manage dependencies, risks, and stakeholders in a complex, large-scale corporate environment.
• Tools: High proficiency with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps) and collaboration software.
• Preferred: Certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI-ACP, or SAFe Agilist.
• Familiarity with modern enterprise data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/Azure/GCP data services, dbt).
• Secret level security clearance.