Delivery Manager - Central Engineering Delivery Office

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST.  Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Delivery Managers serve as the Chief Scrum Master across all delivery teams within a product. They are responsible for the overall solution delivery and support of large-scale programs with complex integrations. Delivery Managers are responsible for managing the communication across program stakeholders, defining mitigation strategies to remediate risks & issues, and assisting teams to ensure that the value being delivered aligns to the product vision defined by product managers. 

The Central Engineering Delivery Manager brings extensive experience leading complex enterprise-scale technology programs, with a proven track record of orchestrating multi-vendor partnerships and managing solution integrators to deliver mission-critical initiatives. This seasoned professional demonstrates a wealth of experience building and maintaining strategic relationships with technology partners while ensuring solutions are delivered to the highest quality standards, on schedule, and within defined budgets. The ideal candidate has progressively advanced through 10+ years of program management roles, successfully scaling their oversight from individual projects to large, interconnected program portfolios of increasing complexity and strategic importance.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

●      Helps with the allocation of resources and provides teams with the necessary support to remediate impediments and reported issues.

●      Facilitates program increment (PI) sessions across all delivery pods aligned to a product, or value stream, and the accompanying planning sessions (pre and post PI planning sessions.).

●      Works with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to plan release schedules across products.

●      Supports product teams with the delivery of new features and capabilities while empowering them and allowing them to be self-organized.

●      Supports the Product Manager with the facilitation of system demos to demonstrate the integration of products to program stakeholders.

●      Leads program increment retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities that can be implemented to improve productivity.

●      Monitors delivery team metrics to evaluate progress against delivery milestones (e.g., release burnups).

●      Aggregates individual delivery pod status into portfoli