About this Delivery Lead - Acquisition & Sustainment role at Redhorsecorp
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Agile Facilitation & Team Leadership
Enterprise Stakeholder & Dependency Management
Data Product Advocacy & Compliance