Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
-Lead SAFe agile transformation initiatives, collaborating with senior leadership to define strategy and drive cultural change across teams.
-Coach and mentor teams and leaders in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Lean practices to foster continuous improvement and self-organization.
-Facilitate Scrum of Scrums, agile ceremonies, workshops, and training sessions to support adoption and alignment across value streams.
-Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to prioritize backlogs, align deliverables to business goals, and ensure quality product releases.
-Optimize the flow of value through release trains by identifying process inefficiencies, removing blockers, and driving automation improvements.
-Work with Scrum Masters and cross-functional teams to estimate work, improve delivery processes, and ensure consistent execution across sprints.
-Analyze test results, monitor agile metrics (e.g., velocity, cycle time), and support defect management to maintain high-quality outputs.
-Lead continuous improvement efforts post-release by recommending enhancements to lifecycle processes and engineering practices.
-Coordinate with the Release Manager to manage calendars, track program increments, and ensure seamless release planning and execution.
-Act as a change agent, championing agile principles and encouraging collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence throughout the organization.
Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:
-Active Secret clearance is required.
-Due to contract requirements, only US Citizens can be considered. Candidates with dual citizenship cannot be considered.
-12+ years of experience with Agile/SAFe framework, including the following.
-Certified in an Agile framework such as SAFe RTE Certification
-Working experience in defining acceptance criteria and coordinating and executing acceptance testing
-Working experience with DevOps/DevSecOps and Continuous delivery pipeline
-Hands-on experience with process, and business and systems analysis to develop analysis of alternatives (AoA), process improvement documents, design documentation, and creating the associated presentations to brief results
-Experience working with multiple teams and coordinating various integration projects
-Demonstrated initiative and ability to start, develop, and complete short and long-term projects
-Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness in the implementation of project specifications and design requirements
-Experience with PI Planning and scrum ceremonies
-Experience with Agile testing, establishing IT testing frameworks, that include automation best practices
-This contract supports systems that require 24x7x365 uptime. Candidates must be willing and able to meet recall requirements, including participation in a rotational on-call schedule.
-Additional tasks to be assigned as needed.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
-Recent experience within DHS.
-Certified in PMP, ITIL, SAFe, or comparable Agile frameworks.
-2 or more years’ experience with ServiceNow
-ITIL v4 Foundations
-Experience performing Agile development
-Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and mentoring skills.
-Experience managing cross-functional teams in Agile/SAFe environments.
-Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps and Continuous delivery pipeline.
-Team player, fast learner with ability to work proactively and independently to support mission critical operations supporting geographically diverse locations.
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