Azure DevOps Practitioner Technical Lead
Job Title: Azure DevOps (ADO) Practitioner / Technical Lead
Location: Seattle, WA (Remote / Local PST Hours)
Duration: 612 Months
Mode: Remote (PST time zone)
Key Responsibilities
Required Skills & Experience
Location: Seattle, WA (Remote / Local PST Hours)
Duration: 612 Months
Mode: Remote (PST time zone)
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert on Azure DevOps, including structure, standards, and best practices.
- Partner with the project lead to translate portfolio and reporting needs into ADO-ready configurations.
- Provide guidance on ADO work item hierarchy, fields, processes, queries, and dashboards.
- Assist in setting up and validating ADO dashboards and native reporting (Power BI not required).
- Advise on Service Tree alignment and ensure ADO data supports it effectively.
- Support TPM onboarding to ADO, ensuring adherence to defined standards and conventions.
- Answer frequent ADO questions with patience and clarity.
- Act as a bridge between portfolio requirements and ADO capabilities.
- Ensure ADO is configured to enable future portfolio management via custom applications.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong, hands-on experience with Azure DevOps (ADO).
- Deep understanding of ADO structure, capabilities, and limitations.
- Experience building and maintaining ADO dashboards, queries, and views.
- Familiarity with Service Tree concepts and mapping engineering work to services.
- Knowledge of Azure/Microsoft standard definitions and governance models.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate with TPMs, portfolio leads, and stakeholders.
- Comfortable in an advisor role rather than a developer or executor.
