Agile Coach Job Listing at SAIC in Chantilly, VA (Job ID 2504694)

Description

Description

SAIC is seeking an Agile Coach to fill a critical position on the LANDMARK AOS program in Chantilly, VA. LANDMARK AOS is a large Prime SETA contract, supporting the customer's Ground Enterprise Directorate (GED), responsible for the acquisition of systems over the complete end-to-end life cycle. Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph required.

Job responsibilities to include: 

• Work closely with system stakeholders and technical teams to help them understand and execute an approach to evaluating and prioritizing cross-program capabilities and requirements.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and advice to government teams on Agile system engineering processes, practices, and activities using industry best practices. 
• Provide coaching on specific roles, including but not limited to: Solution Managers, Solution Train Engineers, Release Train Engineers, and Product Owners.
• Proactively seek opportunities to use process improvement and re-engineering methodologies to facilitate improvements to processes.
• Apply systems analysis and design methodology assessments to identify technical debt, architectural runway, and efficiency trade-offs against current and proposed/desired cloud-based software system design. 
• Develop and support Agile maturity assessments and coaching plans for Solution and Program level teams. 
• Support the identification, collection and reporting of Agile execution metrics and measurements to communicate adoption progress, bottlenecks, and areas of opportunity. 
• Develop briefings and training courses or materials for Solution and Program level teams. 
• Organize and lead Release Planning events to set release goals, objectives, and roadmap. 
• Facilitate positive team dynamics to help maximize team performance. 

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more experience.
• SAFe certified (SA or SPC).
• Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
• 4+ years of Agile Coach experience.
• Experience using Agile project management tools, such as Jira, etc.
• Experience as a certified Scrum Master, certified Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, or Agile Coach.
• Strong organizational, time-management, and verbal / written communication skills, able to convey information across multiple customer and corporate audiences.
• Ability to facilitate larger sessions or events for release planning, etc.
• Experience supporting the IC.
• Knowledgeable of Agile frameworks (preferably SAFe).