Job Requirements
Chantilly, VA
Top Secret/SCI Full Scope Polygraph
Senior Level Career (10+ yrs experience)
$200,000 - $215,000
Job Description
Agile Process Ownership & Team Enablement
Scrum & Agile Event Facilitation
Own, facilitate, and manage key Scrum and Agile events to ensure meetings are structured, productive, and focused on delivery outcomes, including:
Impediment, Risk & Dependency Management
Jira Administration & Management
Administer, configure, develop, and maintain Jira capabilities supporting Agile delivery and program management.
Responsibilities include:
Collaboration & Stakeholder Support
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Own and support the Agile delivery process across customer teams to ensure Agile practices are understood, consistently applied, and effective.
- Guide teams in working through iterative and incremental delivery practices while promoting continuous improvement.
- Coach team members on Agile principles, processes, roles, and best practices.
- Evaluate team processes and recommend improvements that increase efficiency, transparency, collaboration, and delivery effectiveness.
- Foster an environment of open communication, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Facilitate communication and assist with conflict resolution to help teams remain aligned and productive.
Scrum & Agile Event Facilitation
Own, facilitate, and manage key Scrum and Agile events to ensure meetings are structured, productive, and focused on delivery outcomes, including:
- Daily Stand-Ups: Facilitate team synchronization, maintain communication flow, identify blockers, and promote accountability.
- Sprint Planning: Support teams in defining achievable sprint goals, prioritizing work, and establishing realistic commitments.
- Sprint Reviews: Coordinate demonstrations and reviews of completed work and facilitate stakeholder feedback.
- Program Increment (PI) Planning: Support the development, alignment, and prioritization of team objectives and goals for quarterly Program Increments.
- Sprint Retrospectives: Facilitate team reflection, identify lessons learned, and develop actionable improvements for future sprints.
Impediment, Risk & Dependency Management
- Identify, track, escalate, and assist with resolving impediments that may affect team delivery.
- Address delivery challenges including unclear requirements, application or tool issues, process constraints, and cross-team dependencies.
- Coordinate with technical leads, Product Owners, stakeholders, and other Points of Contact (POCs) to communicate and resolve dependencies.
- Help shield delivery teams from unnecessary distractions so they can remain focused on sprint commitments and program objectives.
- Facilitate visibility and communication of risks, dependencies, and issues across teams and stakeholders.
- Support teams in developing mitigation strategies for risks and delivery constraints.
Jira Administration & Management
Administer, configure, develop, and maintain Jira capabilities supporting Agile delivery and program management.
Responsibilities include:
- Develop, configure, and maintain Jira boards supporting team and program-level Agile activities.
- Create, manage, organize, and maintain Jira work items, including:
- Epics
- Stories
- Dependencies
- Risks
- MVIs
- Tasks and other applicable work-item types
- Develop and maintain Jira dashboards that provide actionable visibility into team and program performance.
- Create and manage dashboard designs, reports, gadgets, individual and shared filters, and appropriate data access.
- Develop and maintain Jira Plans to support program-level planning, scheduling, dependency management, and roadmap visibility.
- Configure and manage filters and data views to support different users, teams, and stakeholders.
- Maintain Jira data quality and promote consistent use of Jira across teams.
- Support users with Jira functionality, configuration, reporting, and troubleshooting.
- Identify opportunities to improve Jira configurations and processes to better support Agile delivery and customer requirements.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Support
- Serve as a liaison among engineering teams, Product Owners, program leadership, stakeholders, and other customer representatives.
- Promote transparency by ensuring relevant project, sprint, risk, dependency, and delivery information is visible and accessible to appropriate stakeholders.
- Coordinate across teams to address dependencies and maintain alignment with broader program objectives.
- Use Confluence to support team documentation, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and Agile processes.
Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph with this Customer
- 10+ years of relevant experience in a systems engineering role
- Agile software development and delivery methodologies
- Scrum and scaled Agile environments
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Sprint and Program Increment planning
- Agile coaching and team facilitation
- Risk, issue, impediment, and dependency management
- Jira administration and configuration
- Jira Boards, Dashboards, Plans, filters, and reporting
- Confluence administration and collaboration
- Cross-functional and cross-team coordination
- Continuous process improvement
- Systems engineering concepts and practices
- AWS functionality and cloud-based environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting multiple Agile teams within a complex technical or systems engineering environment.
- Demonstrated experience administering and configuring Jira for team and program-level Agile delivery.
- Experience supporting SAFe Program Increment planning and execution.
- Strong understanding of Agile metrics, reporting, dashboards, and delivery tracking.
- Experience coordinating technical dependencies across multiple engineering teams.
- Ability to translate customer and program requirements into actionable Agile work.
- Strong facilitation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, program leadership, and customer stakeholders.
- Experience working with Jira, Confluence, AWS, and related engineering and collaboration tools.
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