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As a manager in the Agile practice, your main responsibility is to build and develop the team while providing guidance, coaching, and mentorship to technical project/program managers to enhance their skills and performance. You will be responsible for team leadership and ensuring that you manage the team effectively to achieve the desired results supporting the business and projects assigned. With your guidance, the team will be able to work collaboratively and enhance their overall skills. You will monitor the team's progress and provide feedback to the Agile project/program managers on how they can improve their performance. Furthermore, you will identify any areas of improvement and develop a plan to address them. In this role, you will oversee the team's Projects to ensure they align with strategic goals and resource availability. You will collaborate with Product management to align the product vision with the execution. Additionally, you will prioritize and allocate resources around various projects and track and report the progress and performance of the teams using relevant metrics. Using data, you will identify trends, areas of concern, and opportunities for improvement. Your responsibilities will also include engaging with internal and external stakeholders, including executives & sponsors, to ensure communication and expectations are being met and project updates are hitting milestones. You will establish and reinforce Agile standards, methodologies, and best practices within the organization. Furthermore, you will establish Key performance indicators and project/product metrics to monitor the progress and performance of projects/products and identify and manage risks and issues that may impact the success of the project/product. Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, engineering, or related field - 5 years of experience in leading technical project managers, agile project managers, or Scrum Masters Preferred Qualifications: - 3 years of people management experience - Strong understanding of tech trends, software development lifecycles, and project management methodologies - Able to communicate all business needs clearly and professionally, changes, issue management, and various topics with stakeholders and team members - Hands-on experience working on collaboration tools like SharePoint, Confluence, JIRA, etc. - Utilizes strong facilitation skills and an ability to influence to accomplish set goals/objectives/metrics - Establishes open, candid, and trusting relationships with project stakeholders and team members. Strong conflict management skills - Able to create and deliver effective formal and informal presentations to senior leaders Deluxe Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer (EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability). For reasonable accommodation for job seekers with a disability, please direct inquiries to deluxecareers@deluxe.com.,